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Joseph Saidu Momoh

1937 - 2003

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Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh, OOR, OBE (January 26, 1937 – August 3, 2003) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer who served as the second President of Sierra Leone from November 1985 to 29 April 1992.Momoh was a member of the Limba ethnic group and briefly began a career in civil service before joining the miliary in 1956. Following the rise to power of Siaka Stevens, Momoh was appointed force commander in 1971, promoted to major-general in 1983 and became the secretary general of the country's sole legal party, the All People's Congress in 1985. Stevens' retired later that year, and was succeeded by Momoh after a presidential election with himself as the only candidate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Saidu Momoh has received more than 225,929 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joseph Saidu Momoh is the 15,221st most popular politician (down from 14,391st in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Sierra Leone and the 6th most popular Sierra Leonean Politician.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Joseph Saidu Momoh has had the most page views in the with 25,088 views, followed by French (3,801), and German (1,640). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (62.90%), Malay (53.05%), and Yoruba (42.68%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Saidu Momoh ranks 15,221 out of 19,576. Before him are Enlil-nasir I, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Arnaldo Otegi, ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Ding Xuexiang, and Walter Lübcke. After him are Damiq-ilishu, Albert Rösti, Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Nezihe Muhiddin, Hadi Khosroshahi, and Abdus Sattar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Joseph Saidu Momoh ranks 400. Before him are Göran Tunström, Vladimir Makanin, Ina Balin, Tony Barton, Margaret O'Brien, and Tatyana Shchelkanova. After him are Hans Nowak, Antonio Bailetti, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Yuri Maslyukov, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Giuseppe Galante. Among people deceased in 2003, Joseph Saidu Momoh ranks 262. Before him are Pierre Graber, Donald Nicol, Rick Husband, Jonathan Brandis, Elliott Smith, and Arne Månsson. After him are Warren Zevon, Melitta Brunner, Wolfgang Peters, Sydney Lassick, Bruno Heim, and Stan Brakhage.

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In Sierra Leone

Among people born in Sierra Leone, Joseph Saidu Momoh ranks 6 out of 22. Before him are Nabih Berri (1938), Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (1932), Foday Sankoh (1937), Siaka Stevens (1905), and Ernest Bai Koroma (1953). After him are Milton Margai (1895), Mohamed Kallon (1979), Trevoh Chalobah (1999), Valentine Strasser (1967), Johnny Paul Koroma (1960), and Roda Antar (1980).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sierra Leone

Among politicians born in Sierra Leone, Joseph Saidu Momoh ranks 6. Before him are Nabih Berri (1938), Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (1932), Foday Sankoh (1937), Siaka Stevens (1905), and Ernest Bai Koroma (1953). After him are Milton Margai (1895), Valentine Strasser (1967), Johnny Paul Koroma (1960), and Zainab Bangura (1959).

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