Democratic People's Congress

Democratic People's Congress was a political party in Sierra Leone. It was founded in July 1965, by remaining elements of the Sierra Leone Progressive Independence Movement in Kono. DPC consisted of a generation of younger former SLPIM cadres. By the end of July DPC declared that it would work in alliance with the All People's Congress.[1]

In the 1967 elections the APC-DPC coalition defeated the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party.[1] In the Kono North-East constituency, the SLPP had the DPC candidate S. G. M. Fania disqualified on the ground that he was serving a 12-month jail sentence (for political crimes). However, Fania contested his disqualification and a by-election was held in which Fania defeated the SLPP candidate T. R. Beinda. The election campaign in the area was sometimes violent, with clashes between APC/DPC and SLPP supporters.[2] Later, DPC merged with APC.

References
  1. Hayward, Fred M. (1972). "The Development of a Radical Political Organization in the Bush: A Case Study in Sierra Leone". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 6 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1080/00083968.1972.10803654. JSTOR 484149.
  2. Minikin, Victor (1973). "Indirect Political Participation in Two Sierra Leone Chiefdoms". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 11 (1): 129–135. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00008119. JSTOR 159876. S2CID 154605049.


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