title: Nancy Steele
text: # Nancy Steele
  
  Nancy Dolly Victoria Steele (1923–2001), was a Sierra Leonean politician and labour activist. Steele was a member of the APC political party in Sierra Leone.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Nancy Dolly Victoria Grant was born in 1923 in Freetown, Sierra Leone to working-class Sierra Leone Creole parents.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Steele was leader of the National Congress of Sierra Leone Women (NCSLW), founded in 1960 as the women's wing of the All People's Congress (APC). She served as a member of the Sierra Leone Parliament and was also acting Mayor of the Freetown City Council.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Nancy Steele was married to Marcus Steele, an Afro-Caribbean trade unionist. The couple had a son who died in infancy.
  
  ## Death
  
  Steele died in 2001 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
  
  