Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of tables, figures and plates -- Abbreviations -- 1. MIGRATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNIC COMMUNITIES -- 2. THE EMERGENCE OF ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND HEADSHIP (1800-1918) -- 3. HEADMEN AS ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INTERMEDIARIES DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 4. ETHNICITY, ISLAM, AND HEADSHIP DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 5. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEADSHIP -- 6. THE SURVIVAL OF HEADSHIP (1905-1961) -- 7. THE COURTS OF THE TRIBAL HEADMEN -- 8. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INSTITUTION OF TRIBAL HEADMEN (1961-1976) -- 9 . HEADSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FREETOWN -- APPENDIX A: HOUSEHOLD DESCRIPTIONS AND A NEIGHBOURHOOD STUDY - FREETOWN -- APPENDIX B: ALIEN MAHOMMEDANS - DUTIES OF ALMAMIES -- APPENDIX C: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN). NO. 19 OF 1905 -- APPENDIX D: AN ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE PROVISIONS OF 'THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN) ORDINANCE, 1905'. NO. 27 OF 1906 -- APPENDIX E: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (FREETOWN) (SERRAKULI, BAMBARA, AND WASOLOO) NO. 8 OF 1918 -- APPENDIX F: RULES MADE BY THE TRIBAL RULER OF THE FOULAH TRIBE RESIDENT IN FREETOWN, ACTING WITH THE HEADMEN OF SUCH TRIBE, UNDER SECTION FOUR OF THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) ORDINANCE, 1924 -- APPENDIX G: TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) NO. 48 OF 1932: AN ORDINANCE TO PROMOTE A SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION BY TRIBAL AUTHORITY AMONG THE TRIBES SETTLED IN FREETOWN AND IN OTHER PLACES WITHIN THE COLONY -- APPENDIX H: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE WORKING OF THE TRIBAL ADMINISTRATION (COLONY) ORDINANCE, CAP. 244. FREETOWN 1955 -- APPENDIX I: FREETOWN HEADMEN - NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- References -- Index