ABSTRACT
Samu chiefdom was located on the north-eastern borders with Guinea. After the Hut Tax War of 1898, which resulted in the deposition of many chiefs and the restructuring of the protectorate, the British colonial administration began to install new puppet rulers in the chiefdoms. The available literature on the origins of Maforki chiefdom and the Alikali Modu dynasty points to groups of people: the “Sapes” and the “Mane.” The Alikali Modu III and Bai Sherbro Yumkella, and their political backers in the administration of Prime Minister Milton Margai were responsible for peasant revolts of 1955 and 1956. In Kychom, the capital of Samu chiefdom, intelligence reports from 1955 stated that the peasants were welltrained and engaged in a tactical guerrilla war. Class differences based on educational attainment, adaptation to the ways of the white man, and the elitism of the Creoles, had a significant impact on inter- and intra-generational relations.
