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Bureh, Bai, approximately 1840-1908

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Personal name headingBureh, Bai, approximately 1840-1908
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Variant(s)Kebalai, approximately 1840-1908
Associated countrySierra Leone
Birth date1840~
Death date1908
Place of deathSierra Leone
Found inThe face of Bai Bureh, 2013: title page (Bai Bureh) p. 1 (Bai Bureh, Sierra Leone's most popular historical figure; stood up against the British Army at the Hut Tax War of 1898) p. 13 (a Loko warrior who ruled in a Temne kingdom)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2014 (Bai Bureh (c. 1840-1908))
Sierra Leone web home page, Oct. 13, 204 (Bai Bureh, ca. 1840-1908, ruler and military strategist who led the Temne uprising against the British in 1898)
African biographical dictionary, 2006 (BAI BUREH (Sierra Leone, 1840s-1908))
Crowder, Michael. West African resistance, 1971: p. 246 (Kebalai, a warrior of part Temne descent, later installed as chief of Kasseh, and thereby assumed the title of Bai Bureh)
Crowder, Michael. Colonial West Africa, 1978: p. 95 (Bai Bureh returned to Sierra Leone in 1905 and remained there until his death in 1908)