Naimbanna II
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Naimbanna II (1720 - 11 November 1793) was Obai (King) of the Temne people of Sierra Leone.
Naimbanna had some variants of his name, such as Nemgbana, which may refer to a place called Gbana, with the suggestion that when asked what he was called the king replied "name Gbana".[1]
In 1785 he sent his son Pedro to France.
In 1791 he sent his eldest son, John Frederick Naimbanna, to England where he came under the tutelage of Henry Thornton.[2] While in London he became a Christian adopting the forenames Henry and Granville after Henry Thornton and Granville Sharp.[3]
