Belfon Aboikoni

Belfon Aboikoni (31 January 1938 – 24 June 2014) was granman of the Saramaka maroons in Suriname.

[1] Aboikoni was sworn in as chief of the Saramaka, one of Suriname's Maroon peoples, in October 2005 at the age of 65.

[1] He succeeded the late chief Songo Aboikoni who died two years earlier.

[5] The appointment therefore led to disagreement and degenerated in March 2006 in his abduction for a few days by his own family members.

In response, he indicated that he was best placed to defend his people from the capital[4][6] Chief Belfon Aboikoni died on 24 June 2014, at the age of 76.