Kono Country is situated in the eastern part of Sierra Leone and is about two thousand square miles in extent with a population of roughly eighty-five thousand souls. The administrative head-quarters is situated at Sefadu, itself in Kono country, and distant fifty-eight miles approximately due north of the railway station of Segbwema on the main Freetown-Pendembu railway line and connected with that station by a motor road. This head-quarters has been opened since 1927 before which the district was administered from Panguma in the Mende country. The opening of the head-quarters in Kono country itself and the better communication established by the motor road has already greatly benefited the Kono people.