AMANS STORY ON OUR RETURN HOME STILL SHOCKED AND STARTLED WE PUT ON THE RADIO HEARD KAILAHUN WAS UNDER ATTACK AND GRANDPA GBASAY DAD THE PARAMANT CHIEF OF KAILAHUN HAD BEEN KILLED. THE BANYA CLAN ARE MADINKA GUINEANS GRANPA SPECIFICALLY IS A KABALA KISSY SOME OF HIS RELATIVES LIKE MAADA SAMA BANYA FULLAH LIMBA GISSII. THEY ARE KENEMA BO KAILAHUN AND ARE KOR MENDE.THEY ARE DESCENDENTS OF THE KAILONFO BANYA CLAN WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER OF WORKING AGE HE WAS DIRECTOR OF DA SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME AT THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. GRANDPA JAMES LEGG/SESAY HAD ALSO PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOLLOWING A GOVERNMENT CIVAL SERVICE TRAINING HE RECIEVED FROM THE UK GOVERNMENT IN THE IN 1960s. HE IS A MENDE TEMNE GUINEAN SHARBRO SOSO HIS MUM IS FROM A MENDE SOSO FROM BONTHE ISLAND HIS DAD IS A TEMNNE FROM KAMBIA WHOs DAD IS A SOSO GUINEAN WARRIOR THAT WAS A SELECTED TO COMMAND BY CHIEF BAI BUREH IN THE HUT TAX WAR DEFENCE AGAINST PAYMENT OF HUT TAX TO THEBRITISH EMPIRE FOR PROVINCES/ UPLINE. AFTER A 10 MONTH CAMPAIGN OF PRIME GUARILA JUNGLE WARFARE IN WHICH THE BEST OF THE SCOTTISH IRISH ENGLISH WELSH NIGERIAN WEST INDIAN AND INDIAN WERE SLAUGHTERED WITH CYTHS AND SWORDS DESERVEVLY SO FOR BEING PESTS THRY BRITISH BECAME DESPETATE SO THEY KIDNAPED GENERAL BAI BUREHS WIFE AND CHILDREN (whereabouts most probably given by a limba fullah gissii) HE WAS GIVEN AN ULTIMATUM TO STOP FIGHTING CALL OFF HIS MEN OR HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN SHALL BE KILLED. HE FORCABLY RELENTED AND WAS SENT TO THE PRISON CASTLES FOR ALl AFRICAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN GHANA. GRANDPA SESAY AND THE OTHER FIGHTERS ARE IMPRISONED IN SIERRA LEONE. UNTIL WWI THEY ALONG WITH FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM ALL OVER AFRICA AR FORCABLY INSCRIPTED INTO THE BRITISH ARMY OR DEATH. COMMANDED TO FIGHT AGAINST THEIR BROTHERS DA CAMEROUNIANS. AND DA BURMESE/ MIAMA AND OTHER PLACES I NEVER READ ABOUT. AFTER THE BRITISH FELT VICTORIOUS THEY WERE GIVIN DUTY LEAVE TO THE UK. FORCIBLY MADE TO MARCH DOWN CENATAR UK WAVING BRITSH FLAG. I AM DISGUSTEDTHEY WERE PARADED LIKE TROPHIES. MANY OF THE SOLDIERS ASKED THEIR SUPERIORS FOR THEIRE BRITISH NAMES. THEY WERE GIVEN NAMES AND A MIEGRE PENSION AND SENT BACK HOME TO SUFFER PA LEGGS DAD MR SESAY WAS HIGHLY ADMIRED BY THE SCOTTISH GENERAL SO HE GIVE HIM HIS NAME LEGG WHICH MEANS CROWN. TO ADD SALT TO THE WOUND THE UK EMPIRE SENT A VAST ARREY OF WARSHIPS TO SURROUND SIERRA LEONE AND AGAIN FORCED US TO MAKE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FIGHT FOR THEM IN WW11 MAMI MARIE LEGG/ROGERS WAS A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER FROM PUJEHUN SHE IS A KPA MENDE DESCENDANT FROM SIERRALEONE CHIEFS AND WARRIORS FROM LIBERIA. FROM WHAT I HEARD SHE TAUGHT MANY MEN AND WOMEN WHO LEFT FOR FORIEGHN SHORES. FURTHERMORE MANY OF MY UNCLES AUNTIES GRAND AUNTS AND UNCLES TAUGHT AT FOURAH BAY COLLEGE FOR A LONG TIME IT WAS THE ONLY UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN EDUCATON IN AFRICA. SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW MANY EDUCATED AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS AROUND THE WORLD NOW ARE GRATEFULL THE CHANCE. GRANDMA AMINATA BANYA/KAMARA I DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HER EXCEPT I CALL HER YAYE WHICH IS MENDE FOR MAMA. SHE SPENT THE MOST TIME RAISING ME FROM 8 MONTHS OLD TILL 1987. HER NUM IS FULLAH SHARBRO MENDE AND HER DAD IS A KAMARA FROM THE BONGII TRIBE FROM LIBERIA. BY THE TIME PC CHIEF BANYA OF KAILAHUN DIED G GBASAY BEING A AN ISLAMIST HAD BEEN INTICED INTO A SECOND MARRIAGE. HIS LINEAGE IS THE AIR TO KAILAHUN. SO MI MUM SUSAN EAS THE FIRST CHILD SHE WAS RAISED BY HIS RELATIVE AND SHE BORE THE FIRST SON GERALD ME SECOND ON MA LEGG SIDE MY DAD THOMAS NINIAN ANTHONY LEGG IS DA SECOND BORN CALLED AFTER JAMES BUT HE WAS DID NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN AT THAT TIME. AND I AM HAPPY HE HAS NOW BOTH ME AND GERALDS GODPARENTS AR|RE UNKLE KEN AND AUNTIE BEVERLY KOWA. HIS DAD WAS ONE OF MANY SIGNIGICENT FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE PARTY THAT LED SIERRA LEONE TO INDEPENDANCE ON APRIL 17th 1961. UNKLE KENS LINEAGE IS KPA MENDE SOSO KISSII. AUNTIE BEVERLY IS WEST INDIAN JAMAICAN hmmmi
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