page_title: Usman Boie Kamara
hierarchical_section_title: Usman Boie Kamara
caption_attribution_description: English: Usman Boie Kamara - Day 3 of the WTO's Ministerial Conference, Bali, 3 December 2013.
context_page_description: Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman and mining engineer who has been Minister of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone since 2013. He previously worked as director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company.
  Born and raised in Freetown to ethnic Mandingo parents, Usman Boie has a master's degree in mining engineering and Mineral Production management from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.
  His father Mohamed Boie Kamara was a prominent member of the Sierra Leone People's Party and served as the party's treasurer during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mohamed Boie Kamara was also a close ally of Prime Minister Albert Margai.
  Usman Boie Kamara unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the SLPP for the 2012 presidential election, placing second behind former military ruler Julius Maada Bio, who won the SLPP nomination at the party's convention held on 31 July 2011 at the miatta hall in Freetown.
  After he lost the SLPP nomination to Julius Maada, Usman Boie Kamara defected from the SLPP in June 2012 and joined the ruling APC.
context_section_description: Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman and mining engineer who has been Minister of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone since 2013. He previously worked as director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC).
  Born and raised in Freetown to ethnic Mandingo parents, Usman Boie has a master's degree in mining engineering and Mineral Production management from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.
  His father Mohamed Boie Kamara was a prominent member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and served as the party's treasurer during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mohamed Boie Kamara was also a close ally of Prime Minister Albert Margai.
  Usman Boie Kamara unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the SLPP for the 2012 presidential election, placing second behind former military ruler Julius Maada Bio, who won the SLPP nomination at the party's convention held on 31 July 2011 at the miatta hall in Freetown.
  After he lost the SLPP nomination to Julius Maada, Usman Boie Kamara defected from the SLPP in June 2012 and joined the ruling APC. He was officially welcomed and given an APC membership card by President Ernest Bai Koroma himself.
  Usman Boie is a devout Muslim and a fluent speaker of his native Mandingo language. He is married and has three children.
caption: Usman Boie Kamara at a WTO conference in Bali, December 2013
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