Sawula

{{short description|Village in Pujehun District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone}}{{More citations needed|date=August 2025}}

'''Sawula''' is a village in Pujehun District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sawula, Sierra Leone on the map — exact time, time zone, airports nearby |url=https://mw.utc.city/3623361 |access-date=2025-08-10 |website=mw.utc.city}}</ref> It is the birthplace of Francis Minah,<ref name="C Fyle">{{cite book |last=Fyle |first=Magbaily C. |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000fyle |title=Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone |date=2006-03-27 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000fyle/page/132 132] |language=en |quote=francis%20minah%20sierra%20leone. |access-date=2018-07-09 |url-access=registration}}</ref> the second vice-president of Sierra Leone.

It comes from a mendelised phonetic for "Swaray-lah" which means the town/settlement of the Swaray clan a prominent madingo group that started the village. It was close to Massa-a-lah which was founded by the Mansaray clan who claim descendancy from the Keita clan (rulers of ancient Mali empire).

== References == <references /> Category:Villages in Sierra Leone Category:Pujehun District