Sylvia Blyden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Sylvia Olayinka Walmina Oreshola Blyden (born 1 October 1971 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean journalist, political commentator, newspaper publisher, and the current Sierra Leone minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs.
She served as Special Executive Assistant to Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma from 2013 to 2015[1][2].
Blyden is the founder, CEO, and publisher of Sierra Leonean newspaper Awerness Times.
She is the only female news publisher in Sierra Leone, and "one of the most recognisable names in the country." She has spoken of her interest to eventually run for the presidency of Sierra Leone.Born and raised in the capital Freetown, into a prominent political family, Blyden is widely considered one of the most powerful and highly influential female political figure in Sierra Leone.
She is a close ally of Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma, and a prominent supporter and public defender of the Koroma's presidency. Blyden is a Christian and a member of the Creole ethnic group.
Blyden is the great-great-granddaughter of Edward Wilmot Blyden, the "father of Pan-Africanism".
Her maternal grandfather is the Sierra Leonean politician Solomon A.
J.
Pratt, and her paternal grandfather is the late Sierra Leonean diplomat Edward Wilmot Blyden III.

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