[citation needed] The town is the birthplace of former President of Sierra Leone Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

A health clinic south of Pendembu is operated by the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus religious order.

[5][6] Pendembu was a center or hob for the buying and transporting of cacao, coffee beans and palm nuts.

There still stand old structures of huge stores and large areas owned by the government of the country.

The presence of those companies established inter marriages between the Krios and the indigenous people, so was the Libanis.