Background
Patricia Tucker was born on March 17, 1933 in Gbap, Bonthe District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, to ethnic Sherbro parents.
Patricia Tucker was born on March 17, 1933 in Gbap, Bonthe District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, to ethnic Sherbro parents.
She attended Saint Joseph’s Convent Primary School in Bonthe and Saint Joseph’s Convent Secondary School in Freetown. After two years of teaching, Mission Tucker studied in the United States and received her Bachelor"s degree in English at the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio in 1959 and a Master"s degree in French Language at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois in 1963.
She was an ethnic Sherbro from Bonthe District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. She was later employed by the Catholic Mission to teach English and French at Saint Joseph’s Secondary School in Freetown. She returned to Sierra Leone in 1963 where she was appointed Assistant Secretary, under former Sierra Leone"s Prime Minister Milton Margai"s administration.
She went with Kabbah to England where they both studied law.
The family moved to New York in 1981 where Mrs Kabbah obtained a Political Affairs Research appointment at the De-colonization Committee of the United Nations. She was later promoted as Head of the Executive Office, Department of Political Affairs, De-colonization of Trusteeship, with special responsibility for Budget, Personnel and General Administration.
Mrs Kabbah also taught French and English at the City University of New New York Mrs Kabbah moved back to Sierra Leone in 1995.
During that time she accepted the chairmanship of the committee established to formulate plans for a return to civilian government, and to draft a new constitution.
Member Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, Inns of Court, United Kingdom.
Spouse Ahmad Tejan, National of Sierra Leone.