Background
Sheku Kawusu Konte was born in 1928 in Sierra Leone.
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Sheku was a Minister of Lands and Mines, appointed November 26, 1971. He has considerable following among the Muslims of the north, where he originates, and has become a popular and effective minister, always close to President Siaka Stevens, who has frequently shown his trust in him and has promoted him to the most important ministries.
Education
Educated at Koyeima Government Secondary School. In 1955 he attended the Wraith Local Government Course organised by London School of Economics and got a certificate in local government administration.
Career
He became secretary to the Koinadugu District Council from 1956 to 1959. In 1962 he was appointed town clerk in the Bo municipality and in 1964 an executive officer in central government. But, wanting to get into national politics, he resigned his post and returned to Bo as town clerk from 1965 to 1968.
He fought the March 1967 elections for the All Peoples’ Congress and won a seat for Bo when the soldiers intervened and established military rule for a year. During this period he served as an APC representative on the Civilian Rule Committee and when the country returned to civilian rule became Deputy Minister in Prime Minister Siaka Stevens’ office. In 1969 he became Minister of Housing and Country Planning and in May 1970 Resident Minister for the Southern Province. In September 1970, when Siaka Stevens was away in Zambia at the Non-Aligned Summit Conference, he chose Kawusu Konte rather than the politically senior Mohammed Foma to represent him as acting Premier.
In May 1971 Kawusu Konte was appointed Minister of Interior and on November 26, 1971, Minister of Lands and Mines. The government had already taken a controlling share in the diamond industry through the National Diamond Mining Company, DIMINCO.
After the elections of May 1973 he relinquished the Lands portfolio while retaining Mines.
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Sierra Leonean
Career
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November 26, 1971