Sawula is a village in Pujehun District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.1 It is the birthplace of Francis Minah,2 the second vice-president of Sierra Leone.
It comes from a mendelised phonetic for "Swaray-lah" which means the town/settlement of the Swaray clan a prominent madingo group that started the village. It was close to Massa-a-lah which was founded by the Mansaray clan who claim descendancy from the Keita clan (rulers of ancient Mali empire).
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- "Sawula, Sierra Leone on the map — exact time, time zone, airports nearby". mw.utc.city. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
- Fyle, Magbaily C. (2006-03-27). Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Scarecrow Press. p. 132. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
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