Kadi Sesay

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name = Kadi Sesay


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occupation = Minister of Trade and Industry

Dr. Kadiatu Sesay is a Sierra Leonean polician, feminist and pro-democracy advocate. She currently serves as the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Academic career

Sesay was educated at the Rotifunk Primary School, followed by Magburuka Secondary School for Girls. She attended sixth form at the Freetown's renowned St. Edward's Secondary School after which she read in English Language and Literature at Fourah Bay College. She earned a master's degree in African Literature at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and took her doctorate in Applied Linguistics at the University of London. [http://www.concordtimessl.com/news13.htm Concord Times] ]

Political career

Dr. Sesay was a lecturer at Fourah Bay College for 20 years and became Head of the English Department. She spent 6 years chairperson for the National Commission for Democracy and Human Rights (NCDHR). She is the first woman in Sierra Leonean history to head a national commission. She left this post to serve as Minister of Development and Economic Planning which she did for 3 years.

Feminism

Dr. Sesay has championed local campaigns for more women to participate in the political process.

Private life

Dr. Sesay is a widow and the mother of three adult children. She resides in Freetown and has been hailed in the local media as "one of the most beautiful women Sierra Leone ever produced". [ [http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20052576.shtml In 2007, Kadi Sesay as First Lady of Sierra Leone or Kadi Sesay as Vice President of Sierra Leone?: Pictures Tell A Thousand Words] ] She is the mother of CNN International news anchor Isha Sesay.

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