Meet the Founders and Administrators of KonoCEF
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Hon. Saa Emerson Lamina, Founder (Currently excused as a sitting member of parliament)
The founder and brainchild of KonoCEF, Hon. Saa Emerson Lamina is currently a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Sierra Leone. Hon. Lamina has extensive experience in wide ranging administrative issues with specific reference to Education. Mr. Lamina is also an avid gender activist, hopeful for greater inclusion of girls and women in Kono’s development. A native of Soa Chiefdom, Hon. Lamina holds a B.A. degree in Linguistics; M.Ed. in Educational Administration and another M.A. in Peace & Development Studies (MA-PADS) from the Njala University in Sierra Leone. |
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Mrs Sia Evelyn Nyandemo, Co-Founder, Chair of Advisory Board
Sia Evelyn Nyandemo, was born in the mid 50s in Jaiama Nimikoro, the headquarter town of Nimikoro Chiefdom, Kono district. She attended the Jaiama UMC primary school and later the Jaiama Secondary School. Madam Sia is a well known leader both in Kono and in the UK mainly through her work in advancing education and awareness about sickle cell and advocating for improved care for sufferers and their families. She co-founded the Sickle Cell Carers Awareness Network (SCCAN) in Sierra Leone, which is one of the leading providers of early testing, long-term treatment and care to sickle cell patients in the country. Madame Sia recently returned permanently to her home in Kono, joining her husband, also a well known and loved elder, Saa Dingiswayo Nyandemo. She was elected by the women in her community to serve as their Mammy Queen for the area. |
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Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, PhD Co-Founder, Executive Director
Dr. Fuambai Sia Ahmadu is founder of SiA Inc. a movement dedicated to promoting self-advocacy and human rights awareness among marginalized girls and women in Africa and worldwide. She is a former President of Kono Union USA Inc. An anthropologist by training, Dr. Ahmadu worked for several years as a lead consultant for UNICEF and a principal investigator at the UK's Medical Research Council Laboratories, both in The Gambia. She completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) post-doctoral training fellowship at the Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago. Dr. Ahmadu left NIH to undertake the prestigious Carley-Hunt writing fellowship funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and worked in residence at the Office of the Vice President in Sierra Leone during the time it was overseeing the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. |
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Mr Mani Ngaujah, Girls Education Supplement Project Coordinator
The key mover and shaker of the KonoCEF Project is no one else but Mani Ngaujah. Stay tuned his bio will be updated soon. |
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Augusta Yonga, Journalist and Blogger, The Konomusu Blog
Augusta Yonga, Journalist and Konomusu Blogger
"I am an award-winning journalist based in Kono District. I love to write about politics in Sierra Leone as well as social, economic and political issues closer to home in Kono. I have started this blog as a way to recognize the wonderful achievements of Kono women at home and in the Diaspora and to show young girls, especially KonoCEF distinguished awardees and hundreds of our schoolgirl volunteers the success of female role models from our own communities." |
