Lamina Sankoh (28 June 1884 – 1964), born Etheldred Nathaniel Jones,[1] was a Sierra Leone Creole pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric.
Lamina Sankoh was born as Etheldred Nathaniel Jones in Gloucester, British Sierra Leone, in the Mountain District in the city of Freetown on 28 June 1884 to ethnic Creole parents.
He then went to study theology and philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, matriculating in 1921.
Sankoh returned to Gloucester in 1924 and received a position as priest and was appointed curate of Holy Trinity Church.
In 1930, Sankoh left the U.S. to go back to Britain, where he became actively involved with the West African Students' Union (WASU), a London-based activist organization campaigning for self-government of their colonies in Africa.