West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown

xviii, 228pp, occasional black and white plate illustrations, tables etc and complete with large fold out map. In black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and torn dust jacket, with minor loss around spine ends and corners, some creasing and rusting at edges.

Based on field studies in the early 1950s, this is an account, largely, of large-scale migration into Freetown or tribal people from the rural areas of Sierra Leone’s hinterland and the administrative and social challenges created.