ABSTRACT
In some parts of Temne country the extent to which young men are leaving the land is giving cause for concern, though the increase of population and over-farming of land in other areas is that emigration is to the general benefit. The farming calendar and the division of labour within the household exercise an important influence on migration. Differences in tribal character influence the pattern of migration and the migrants' adjustment to new surroundings. It seems as if the Temne, conservative as he is in many matters, has a readiness to copy certain new ways and a self esteem which causes him to adopt new standards more quickly than does the Limba. Censuses were taken in three villages to determine the amount of emigration relative to family size and the circumstances underlying it. Emigration was nothing new in these villages and many instances were cited of men who had left long ago for the towns and had died there .
