■ Nigeria into 1980: Without a radical departure from present attitudes Nigeria will be unable to feed it's people ■ Report from the cattle state: Matchet's diary from Maiduguri. ■ Ghana's health service: The case for medical assistants, Dr. P. A. Twumasi, lecturer in sociology at the University of Ghana, Legon. ■ Batouala reassessed: Fifty years after the publication of Renè Maran's celebrated novel, an English version has been published. ■ Commercial news: Bankers meet in Lagos- African central bank governors ended ■ Dateline Nigeria: Nimeiri's state visit