Her name was Ella Koblo Gulama. Madam Ella Koblo Gulama was the first female member of parliament and the first woman in Sub-Saharan Africa to hold a ministerial position when former Prime Minister Milton Margai made her Cabinet Minister. Being the most educated of all of the king’s wives, it was Queen Ella who would travel with him in court. The old wizards of Kaiyamba did not want Ella to be Queen of Kaiyamba because no woman had ruled the kingdom before. They tried everything to keep Ella away from the throne, but Princess Ella believed that a woman’s place was wherever she chose.