[1][2] Samojła was born into the family of a school headteacher who also worked as the head of the Society of Fine Arts in Minsk.

[1] In 1921–1922 Samojła joined the Belarusian national movement in the Second Polish Republic and became a professional political journalist.

At the beginning of the 1930s, he withdrew from active participation in political life and worked as a librarian of a Belarusian museum in Vilnia.

At first, he was held in the Vilnia Lukiški prison and later transferred to Vialejka and then to Minsk where he perished (presumed executed).

He was engaged in the history of Belarusian cultural heritage, prepared publications on issues of ethnography, literature, folklore and art.