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Jusu Sawie

Sierra Leonean politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6318650 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jusu Q. B. Sawi is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) who as of 2007 was a member of Parliament of Sierra Leone representing Kailahun District. Sawi first ran for a seat in parliament in the 2002 general election, in which he won by a large margin. He won re-election in the 2007 general election, although the SLPP lost the majority of seats in parliament to the then opposition All People's Congress (APC). Jusu Sawi is a member of the Mende ethnic group from Kailahun District.

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“Jusu Sawie” enters the record as sierra Leonean politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jusu, Sawie and Sierra can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jusu, Sawie and Sierra.
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“Jusu Sawie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jusu, Sawie and Sierra provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6318650. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jusu Sawie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.