Early Life
Zainab Hawa Bangura was born Zainab Hawa Sesay in the small rural town of Yonibana, Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. She hails from the Temne ethnic group. She was born into a rural Temne family of limited means. She obtained a scholarship to study at Mathora Girls Secondary School in the town of Mathora, Tonkolili District and later at the Annie Walsh Girls Secondary School in the capital city of Freetown. After graduating from Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College, she studied in the United Kingdom for advanced diplomas in insurance. While in her early 30s, she became vice-president of one of her country's largest insurance companies. She speaks three languages: Temne, Krio, and English.
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