- Sawula
Sawula is a
village inPujehun District in theSouthern Province ofSierra Leone . It is the birthplace ofFrancis Minah , the second vice-president of Sierra Leone.It comes from a mendelised phonetic for "Swaray-lah" which means the town/settlement of the Swaray clan a prominent madingo group that started the village. It was close to Massa-a-lah which was founded by the Mansaray clan who claim descendancy from the Keita clan (rulers of ancient Mali empire).
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