title: Gibril Sesay
text: # Gibril Sesay
  
  Alhaji Gibril Sesay (August 1909 – September 2, 1988) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and Muslim cleric.
  
  ## Career
  
  * He was nominated City Councillor and Chairman of the Establishment Committee. Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress, Teacher of English and Arabic in the Tslamia Primary School, Lecturer of Mohammedan or Muslim law and Constitution in the Extra-Mural Department of Fourah Bay College.
  * Lecturer of Islamics in the Sir Milton Margai College of Education and Technology Teachers' Training College,
  * Organising President of the Sierra Leone Muslim Reform aition Society,
  * Organising President of the Imanfya Social and Literary Association,
  * Iman of the Board of Imams for the entire Muslim Community under the auspices of the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress
  * In 1958 he was Mayor, Freetown City Council.
  * He was a founder-member of the All People's Congress.
  * He received his advanced Arabic/Islamic education in Saudi Arabia.
  * In 1973 he was named acting Imam of the Freetown Central Mosque.
  * From 1969 to 1975 he led the sierra Leonean mission in Cairo.
  * In 1973 he was designated Ambassador.
  