Tamba Songu M'briwa

When Sir Milton Margai, the leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) took power in 1961 as Sierra Leone's first prime minister Tamba Songu M'briwa was a prominent member of his government. He remained a popular politician and a prominent paramount chief until he fell out with Sir Milton Margai. He was subsequently removed from office and banished to Kamakwie, Bombali District in the Northern Province of the country. He later joined forces with the All People's Congress (APC) party in assisting in the victory of the APC over the SLPP in the 1967 general elections. He died in 1968, a few days after winning the by-elections as Paramount Chief of Kono District in the Sierra Leone Parliament.

Tamba Songu M'briwa (born 1910-1968) was a prominent Sierra Leonean politician and paramount chief from the Kono ethnic group, who formed one of the few political parties in Sierra Leone before independence.

Tamba Songu M'briwa was born in 1910 in the village of Jagbwema, Fiama Chiefdom, Kono District, in the Eastern Province of British Sierra Leone to parents from the Kono ethnic group. He was educated at a local primary school in Kono District before proceeding to the Bo Government Secondary School in Bo. He worked as a government dispenser before he became paramount chief. As a paramount chief in the colonial era, Tamba Songu M'briwa did much to improve the life of his people. He established schools in his chiefdom and was generally devoted to the education of young people in Kono District.