3-614: Tankoro Chiefdom is a chiefdom in Kono District of Sierra Leone . Its capital is New Sembehun . This Sierra Leone location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone The chiefdoms of Sierra Leone are the third-level units of administration in Sierra Leone . There are 190 chiefdoms in Sierra Leone, as of 2017. Previously, there were 149. The paramount chiefs and
6-574: The World Bank sponsored the creation of elected local councils. Local notables, known as the Tribal Authority, elect paramount chiefs for life from among the ruling families in each chieftaincy recognised by the British administration in 1896. Some chieftaincies have several ruling families, and the differences among them in terms of economic progress has been subject to study in 2013. They found there
9-536: The ruling families in the chiefdoms were recognised and empowered by the British colonial administration when it organised the Protectorate of Sierra Leone in 1896. Typically, chiefs have the power to "raise taxes, control the judicial system, and allocate land, the most important resource in rural areas." The hereditary paramount chiefs and their sub-chiefs were the sole local government in Sierra Leone until 2004, when
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