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Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray

Full Name

Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray

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Gender

Male

Election Year

Election Type

Presidential

Bio Profile

Mohamed Mansaray widely known as Kamarainba, is a Sierra Leonean politician, psychologist, and the current leader and chairman of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), a left-wing populist political party he formed in Sierra Leone in opposition to the country"s two main political parties, the ruling APC party and the main opposition SLPP.

Kamarainba is a left-wing populist politician, who says he represents the poor Sierra Leoneans who have been neglected by the government for too long. He is an outspoken critic of Sierra Leone's political elites, especially Sierra Leone"s president Ernest Bai Koroma and his ruling APC party

Kamarainba was born in Port Loko in the north of Sierra Leone but he was raised in Koidu Town in eastern Sierra Leone.

Kamarainba was previously a prominent member of the APC party United States branch, before he fell out with the most senior members of the APC in Sierra Leone in 22014. He ultimately left the APC and formed his own political party called the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) in 2015.

Mansaray ran for Parliament in 2015 as a member of the ADP party in constituency 030 in Bombali District, but he lost a close race to the APC candidate Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, a close ally of president Koroma.

Mansaray has a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Howard University and a Master's degree in Psychology from Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Mansaray is a Muslim and a native of Port Loko District in the north of Sierra Leone. He is married with three children.