Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, CMG OBE (April 17, 1921 – 1990[1][2]) was a Sierra Leonean politician.
Cole was appointed officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965 for "Public services as minister without portfolio"[3] and inducted as a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1973.
Cole was born to Creole parents at Waterloo, Sierra Leone, then a British colony.
In 1960-1961 he served as chair of the Cole Commission to inquire into Sierra Leone's national accounts.
At this time there was a complicated process of constitutional change after the Sierra Leonean monarchy was abandoned in early 1971.
Cole, who had been appointed interim Governor-General on March 31, served for two days as the acting president.
[5] He was Sierra Leone's first United Nations Permanent Representative in New York and a member of the Lancaster delegation that signed the independence document from Great Britain on 21 December 1979.