Magburaka Government Secondary School for Boys is a government-sponsored secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 based in Magburaka

Magburaka

Magburaka is the capital and largest city of Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. It is the second largest city in the Northern Province after Makeni and the 6th largest city in Sierra Leone with a population of 66,313 It is located at around , along the Rokel River...

, in the Tonkolili District

Tonkolili District

Tonkolili District is a district in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Magburaka. The other major towns include Mathora, Magbass, Yonibana and Mile 91...

, Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

. The school is one of the oldest secondary schools in Sierra Leone. The Magburaka Government Secondary School for Boys has a history of producing some of Sierra Leone's most prominent people, including current Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma

Ernest Bai Koroma

Ernest Bai Koroma is the fourth and current President of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in as President on 17 September 2007 at the State House in the capital Freetown, shortly after being declared the winner of a tense run-off in the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election with 54.6% of the vote over...

, minister of Education Minkailu Bah

Minkailu Bah

Minkailu Bah is a Sierra Leonean politician and Lecturer and currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Education, Youth and Sports...

 and writer

Writer

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, novelist and author

Author

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 Karamoh Kabba

Karamoh Kabba

Karamoh Kabba is a Sierra Leonean author, writer, novelist and journalist. He has written several historic account about the Sierra Leone civil war, such as A Mother’s Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone and the self-published works Lion Mountain and Morquee: A Political Drama of...

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Notable alumni

• Ernest Bai Koroma
  Ernest Bai Koroma
  Ernest Bai Koroma is the fourth and current President of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in as President on 17 September 2007 at the State House in the capital Freetown, shortly after being declared the winner of a tense run-off in the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election with 54.6% of the vote over...
  
  , current president of Sierra Leone
• Minkailu Bah
  Minkailu Bah
  Minkailu Bah is a Sierra Leonean politician and Lecturer and currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Education, Youth and Sports...
  
  , Sierra Leone minister of education and sport
• Karamoh Kabba
  Karamoh Kabba
  Karamoh Kabba is a Sierra Leonean author, writer, novelist and journalist. He has written several historic account about the Sierra Leone civil war, such as A Mother’s Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone and the self-published works Lion Mountain and Morquee: A Political Drama of...
  
  , Sierra Leonean author and novelist