 Aniru Sahib Sahib Conteh was born on 6 August 1942 , in the town of Jawi <unk> , Eastern Province , Sierra Leone , the son of a farmer and chief of the village . He moved to Freetown , the capital of Sierra Leone , after his mother died while he was in his teens . Conteh studied chemistry and biology at <unk> Bay College and began teaching after receiving his BSc . In 1968 , he began studying medicine in Nigeria at the modern University of Ibadan , graduating in 1974 . Conteh spent the next four years employed by the Ibadan Teaching Hospital . He returned home to Sierra Leone in 1979 . Conteh married and raised a family with his wife Sarah , producing several sons and daughters . 
