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Item Open Access West Africa Magazine 3278, 19 May, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1980-05-19) West Africa magazine■ The French connection: The new colonial pact is even more severe than the old ones, no less a figure than President Senghor announced shortly before the Franco-African summit in Nice last week ■ Military return to power in Uganda: Uganda has provided the latest of a long series of cases in Africa in which military men claim to know better than elected politicians how a country should be run ■ Franco-African summit notebook by Alex Rondos:Towards a French Commonwealth: A special report from Nice illustrates how African and French leaders tended to avoid the more controversial political issues to concentrate on economics. ■ Nigeria’s hope of nuclear weapons: Enukora Joe Okoli interviews Professor Iya Abubakar Nigerian Minister of defence ■ A glaring example of bad faith: Stanley Macebuh in an article reprinted from the Daily Times of Nigeria, reflects on the wider implications of journalism of the Vera Ifudu case ■ Books and publications: A mystery set forth: The stone images of Esie by Phillips Stevens Jr. ■ Economic and business news: The missing men of oil: The International Labour Organisation recently published a report prepared for discussion by its Petroleum committee ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Secret court-martial of eight: West Africa has received unofficial information from Accra that the seven soldiers undergoing court-martial for conspiracy to cause mutinyItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3279, 26th May, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-05-26) West Africa magazine■ Stability and change: Questions about the difference between stability and longevity (as regards West African regimes) have been dramatically raised by the news that there has been an attempt on the life of President Sèkou Tourè of Guinea ■ Prospecting for oil in Nigeria: In the first of two articles on the Nigerian oil industry Martin Quinlan, of the Petroleum Economist, looks at the prospects for a new attitude towards oil companies over exploration and financial arrangements. ■ OAU’s plan for food: A drive towards self-sufficiency in food production is one of the main recommendations of the Plan of Action agreed at the OAU's special summit in Lagos last month. ■ The story of an oral historian of genius: In Africa, says the Malian author Hampathe Ba, when an old man dies it is like setting a whole library on fire and burning. it down if Mbalifele Janneh, the octogenarian sage of Bakau who died last month was no library, he was certainly a good number of books combined ■ Timber in trouble: John Kugblenu adds a postscript to our articles on the timber trade: African timber and plywood (Ghana) limited (ATP) at Samreboi in the Western region apparently in serious difficulties at present ■ Books and publications: Who is who: Dictionary of African biography: volume 2. Sierra Leone and Zaire (reference publications) ■ Africa focus at Frankfurt: The world s biggest Book Fair is paying especial attention this year to African publishing. A. C. Imfeld of Evangelical Press Service reports on some of the preparations involved. ■ Economic and business news: A cocoa consuming view: Britain's Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance held its annual general meeting last weekItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3275, 28th April, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-04-28) West Africa magazine■ A problem for the OAU: President William Tolbert was the first OAU chairman to die in office in the organisation’s 17year history ■ Ghana’s Catholic centenary: Pope John Paul it is due to arrive in Ghana on May 8, 1980 as part of his African tour beginning on May 2,the other countries the pontiff is visiting are Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Congo, Zaire and Kenya ■ The OAU turns to development: Enokura Joe Okoli reports from Lagos on the final run-up to the OAU Economic Summit and the unexpected constitutional problems involved ■ Farmers and foreigners: In his second article on the Ivory Coast, Alex Rondos considers the two main groups contributing to the country's economy and how the state responds to them. ■ In the cause of the Liberian people...? Brutality is not a matter of frontiers or racial divisions. The inefficient and rough executions of 13 former men of power in Liberia do not compare with the mass murders of Buchenwald, the flash killing of hundreds of thousands at Hiroshima ■ Timber politics in Ghana: •Lift the (LOG) ban and save the timber trade from total collapse’” seems to be the consistent war-cry of a section of the Ghanaian timber business community ■ Books and publications: The remarkable Mungo: Mungo Park by Kenneth Lupton ■ Economic and business news: Changing fortunes: After rising for six consecutive months the international Monetary Funds price e index of commodities, other than oil and precious metals — categories which everybody ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Tempers rise over 'Oligate' Judicial commission named: Tempers are rising high over the alleged N2,800m missing from the funds of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine 3274, 21st April, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-04-21) West Africa magazine■ Death of a Liberian regime: A coup in Liberia was necessary, according to Master Sergeant Samual K. Doe, because of the rampant corruption in the country and "the continued failure of the government to handle effectively the affairs of the Liberian people ■ A joyful birth for Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe last week moved to independence amid scenes of great joy with Mr Robert Mugabe, the new prime minister ■ Master Sergeant Doe’s Cabinet: A correspondent reports on the details known so far of the coup that overthrew President Tolbert and its immediate aftermath. Following the 12 April coup by non-commissioned officers and other ranks in Monrovia ■ An exemplary election: A correspondent looks at the report on the Zimbabwe elections by the Commonwealth Observer Group: An exemplary demonstration of what can be achieved by a free and fair and politically conscious ■ Economic and business news: Budget opportunities: A conference organised by the Nigeria British chamber of commerce in London on the Nigerian budget 1980 attracted some 250 participants ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Dispute over appeal against AFRC sentence: There has been some controversy over the special tribunal ruling setting aside adverse findings against Mr E. K. OwusuItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3273, 14th April, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-04-14) West Africa magazine■ The power of the market: The news from Ghana is that Makola number one market in the centre of Accra, which was bulldozed to the ground during the revolutionary regime of Flight Lieutenant J. J. Rawlings, is now once again the scene of brisk marketing activities, ■ Liberia’s April 14 indictment: In Monrovia today at least 50 members of the progressive people's party are to appear before a grand jury for indictment on charges of sedition and treason. ■ Race and the Bristol riot: There wax one curious element that emerged from the controversy over the recent outbreak of fighting between black youths and the police in the British city of Bristol ■ Upper Volta: how democracy is linked to development: When in Ouagadougou at the end of March to participate in the Congress of UDV-RDA ■ Imperialism and the Volta dam-IV: Power supply and economic nationalism A correspondent concludes a series of articles giving the economic and political background to Ghana’s Volta River project. ■ Books and publications: Literary lyricism: Une si longue lettre by Mariama Ba ■ Economic and business news: Another ICA faltering: Whilst the international cocoa agreement was being unpleasantly talked out of existence in London ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Soldiers arrested for conspiracy: The Ministry of defence has announced that a number of soldiers and a civilian were arrested on March 29Item Open Access West Africa Magazine 3277, 12th May, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-05-12) West Africa magazine■ Road from Calabar to Yaounde: Why is it that a Senegalese businessman in Dakar finds it impossible to telephone his counterpart in Nairobi? ■ Nigeria’s nine-month budget: by Dr. Lawrence A. Rupley, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Nairobi ■ Wartime memories of an aircraftsman at Fourah Bay: Shabtai Rosenne, now deputy head of the Israeli delegation at the Unit Nations, recalls his time in Sierra Leone during the early 1940s ■ Books and publications: Legal stimulation: Introduction to Nigerian Lawedited by C. O. Okonkwo ■ Economic and business news: Cocoa hits 4-year low: Cocoa has been down to its lowest price for four years. At the middle of last week spot was slightly better at about £1,190 a tonne, with July cocoa just over £1.200, ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Limann will not "play politics”: The Government has expressed regret at a call by Dr John Bilson, leader of the Third Force Party, for the President to resign.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 2733 Saturday 18th October, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1969-10-18) West Africa magazine■ Soldiers Still in power:With Ghana now smoothly entered into civilian rule, the question may now safely be asked what about Africa’s other military regimes? ■ Pearson's 30-year target: Hard-pressed and frustrated aid administrators may be pardoned for sometimes wondering whether their programmes will fail because they will run out of carbon paper. ■ Slow Road to Recovery: Ghana had a trade surplus of 24.8 million cedis in 1968 (imports 314m exports 338.8m) compared with deficits in the previous two years ■ Roundabout: What's happening in Mali? News coming out of Bamake is scare these days, for example travellers arriving in Dakar in the middle of August spoke of an abortive coup on the night of August 12-13 ■ Books and publications: De Gaulle's Africa? French-speaking Africa since independence by Guy de Lusignan. ■ Commercial news: Hackman pleads: Keep politics out: An appeal for a reappraisals of the role the Ghana cocoa marketing board is made in the Board's newsletter ■ Dateline Africa: Chad: New military operations: Three major new French-Chadian operations were carried out against the rebels last week in Kanem. Quaddai and Guera in West, East and Central Chad respectivelyItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3276, 5th May, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd ., 1980-05-05) West Africa magazine■ The Plan of Action: The ideas that were expressed with great eloquence by the African leaders who gathered in Lagos last week were not new. ■ The OAU’s Economic Summit: The first economic summit of the OAU resolved last week to take steps towards the establishment of an African common market by the year 2000 ■ What hope for Chad? Alex Rondos suggests that the time has come for wider international action. The announcement of the withdrawal of French troops from Chad last week ■ Log-rolling in Ghana: The second of two articles on the political aspects on Ghana's timber industry ■ Books and publications: By any other name? Reappraisals in Overseas History edited by H. L. Wesseleing and P. C. Enuner(Leiden University Press) ■ Demand for airports: Aeroplanes need airports. In a recent article in the Financial Times, Michael Donne considered what this could mean in demands on the construction and supply industries by the Third World ■ The importance of roads: Ad'Obe Obe looks at the significance of some of the bold plans to lay new roads across the face of Africa and the obstacles they must circumvent. ■ On the right lines: Ad Obe Obe looks at the potential for railways in African development ■ Economic and business news: Thoughtful cocoa comment The latest cocoa market report from Gill & Duffus carriesan unusually long commentary on the world cocoa scene ■ Dateline Africa: Liberia: Constitution suspended: The Constitution has been suspended, martial law has been imposed, and all legislative and executive powers have been vested in the People's Redemption CouncilItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2732 Saturday 11th October, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-10-11) West Africa magazine■ Freetown and Lagos: When Presidents Nyercre and Kaunda recognised Biafra as a sovereign state in 1968, they were under the impression that in this way they could emphasise to the Nigerian Federal Government their concern not only over the bloodshed and the civil war ■ The End of Kaduna: At the end of the current financial year, the Interim Common Services 1 Agency of the six new Northern States in Nigeria is to be wound up. Even the Produce Marketing Board ■ The Bank is fine—but what about the customers ?Paper sold and a life expectancy of 25 years for the Gabonese male do not appear to be closely related, but they are: attempts to regulate the world’s economy have a direct bearing on the effects of developing countries to raise their standards of living. ■ Books and publications: Negro art by Dmitry Olderogge and Werner Forman; African rock art by Burchard Brentjes ■ Commercial news: Food output remains depressed: Agricultural production in Ghana, Niger and Senegal as well as Rhodesia declined by about 10 per cent in 1968 ■ Commercial news: Franc zone talks: Ministers of the 15 countries of the franc zone met in Paris last week prior to the meetings in Wash ngton of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: After the NLC's hand-over: Ghana's new constitution seeks to place the exercise of power under restraint Dr. Kofi Busia told crowds assembled in the Black Star Square on October I.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2731 Saturday 20th September, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd Press Ltd.,, 1969-09-20) West Africa magazine■ Clearing Nigeria’s air: Misunderstanding of remarks made by General Gowon on his return to Lagos from the OAU conference has led many eagerly to grasp the possibility of immediate Nigeria-Biafra talks without conditions ■ A month in the country—6: Saviours with (and without) a sword: Professor Dennis Austin, concluding his series of articles on Ghana politics, examines the prospects after the general election ■ A New mood in the African novel: Contemporary African writing has seemed, over the past two decades in which it has been growing, to be moving in a single direction, that is towards a comprehensive exploration of the implications, social and spiritual, of the African encounter with the West ■ Books and publications publications: Hard-line critics- Vive le President by Daniel Ewande; Lettre a la France Negre by Yambo Ouologuem ■ OAU decisions at the summit: A part from the resolution on Nigeria which wax Delta with last week, the OAU summit conference in Addis Ababa also passed a number of other resolutions ■ Commercial news: Plans for West Africa's rice: All West African states are eligible for membership of the West African rice development association established after a conference in Monrovia but membership is to be opened to other African countries. ■ Dateline Africa: Sierra Leone: Reaction to Foray's support for Biafra: Great surprise has been expressed in Lagos at Sierra Leone's stand at the OAU conference at Addis Ababa this monthItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2731 Saturday 27th September, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-09-27) West Africa magazine■ What’s Wrong in Ibadan? Brig. Adebayo's dramatic description of recent events in Western Nigeria as a "rebellion’’ has once again thrust the affairs of the unfortunate State before the eyes of an irritated Nigerian public, and a bemused world. ■ Roundabout: Who went to Rabat? How much West African participation has there been at the Islamic summit, which was held at Rabat, capital of Morocco this week? ■ Books and publications: Americans looks at Nigeria: The Nigerian-Biafra conflict edited by Michael A. Samuels (The centre for strategic and international studies Georgetown ■ Civil Servants and the Economy: Last year the government, the biggest employer of Labour in Ghana approved many changes in the civil service, proposed by a Commission under Mr. Justice Mills Odoi ■ Commercial news: Ghana: Cocoa farmers' price protest: The Ghana National Farmers’ Union has asked the Government to suspend fixing this season's cocoa producer price (8 cedis a 60-lb load) as it was unacceptable to farmers ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Afrifa on his future: Brigadier. Afrifa chairman of the presidential commission has said he is not going back to the army after serving his term of office on the commissionItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2731 Saturday 4th October, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-10-04) West Africa magazine■ Back to Barracks: To the end there were those in Ghana and outside who wondered whether the soldiers and policemen would really hand over power to civilians. ■ Chad France and the Rebellion: The Chad war is showing all the 4 signs of becoming an issue in French domestic politics. Since July the rebellion there has been the subject of a number of press commentaries, the most dramatic of which have been last week's three article ■ VALCO in the new Ghana : 2: Under the agreement establishing the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO), which operates the aluminium smelter at Tema, and which is the biggest user of the Volta Dam’s power ■ Prospects for Cocoa: This week, immediately after the end of the celebrations marking the return to civilian rule. Ghana’s 1969-70 main cocoa crop buying season opens. For the success of civilian rule the seasons results are likely to be more important than the celebrations. ■ Books and publications: Reprinting history: The occupation of Hausaland 1980-1984 being a translation of Arabic letters found in the house of the Wazir of Sokoto, Buhari in 1903 edited with an introduction by H. F. Blackwell and with a new introductory note by M. Haskett Journal of an African cruiser by Horatio Bridge ■ Commercial news: Aid, the bank and the fund: World bank aid commitments increased by 87 per cent jn the year ending last June 30 compared with 1967-68 says the annual report ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Second republic takes over: On Oct 1 Ghana returned to full civilian rule under the second republic when the National Liberation Council handed over power to the government headed by Dr Kofia BusiaItem Open Access New Horizon Magazine no.1, 1979(Mushin, Lagos state (14, Tamakloe/Kelani Street): The New Horizon Publications,, 1979) Edited by Dapo Fatogun; Ikpe Etokudo■ This we stand: SWPP declares stand: Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Working Peoples’ Party of Nigeria (SWPP) met recently to deliberate on the decision of the Federal Electoral Commi ssion (FEDECO) not to register the Party ■ Trade unions: Wage-Freeze: Workers are suffering says Bernard Obuah: The Second plenary meeting of the National Executive Council of the Civil Service Technical Workers' Union of Nigeria was held in Lagos on January 24 and 25, 1979. ■ Profile: Iroaham Amaechi: IROAHAM EGEMBA AMAECHI was born in 1932 in Umueze-Afugidi, Umuahia, Imo State. He attended Methodist Central School, in his home town, Afugidi from 1937 to 1944 where he took the first position in his final class ■ The problems of planning in Nigeria: Preparations are now well under way for Nigeria's fourth national development plan 1980 to 1985 ■ Developing Africa Via Industrialization by DR. M. Awunofe: The crucial role of industrialization in building a new society is clearly evidenced by the experience of historical development of states. At present this fact is well recognized through out the world. ■ Africa's TV and brainwashing Statistics indicate there are four television sets to every one thousands of the population in Africa today. You will agree that is a modest figure. Television is making its way to the mass African viewer against great odds ■ Hungary Marks 60 Years Of Revolution By Ikpe Etokudo: For all progressives the world over and in particular the Hungarian people, March 21 is a day of great significance. Sixty years ago the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed giving place to a revolutionary situation in Hungary. ■ Class and class struggle: Classes are large groups of people distinguished by their position in the process of social production, their relation to the means of production, their role in the social organisation of labour and, consequently, by the methods of acquisition and size of the share of the social wealth they possess. ■ Racists on the offensive in Southern Africa: A few months ago the publication of the Bingham report on the violation by the British Shell and British Petroleum companies of the embargo oil deliveries to Rhodesia gave rise to a strong political scandal. ■ Case for Ethiopia's revolution: Leaders of the separatists forces to a democratic dialogue with a view to imicably solving the problem. The Provisional Military Administrative Council was aware that Ethiopia as a country encompassing numerous nationalities, suffered from nationality oriented injustices under the discredited feudo-bourgeois order ■ Book Review: The long years dying: Title: Nothing Could Be Finer Author: Michael Myerson Publishers: International Publishers New York: MICHEAL MYERSON'S Nothing Could Be Finer is about modern forms of racial discrimination and political repression in the USA today.Item Open Access New Horizon Magazine no.2, 1979(Mushin, Lagos state ( 14, Tamakloe/Kelani Street): The New Horizon Publications 14, Tamakloe/Kelani Street, Nigeria, 1979) Edited by Dapo Fatogun; Ikpe Etokudo■ What Is PRP up to? Talakawas need an answer by Ikpe Etokudo ■ NLC celebrates 1st anniversary: The Nigeria Labour Congress was a year old In February. In Its first year of existence the Congress had made its presence felt. ■ World problems of Marxist peace and socialism review ■ NLC progress report: The general secretary of the Congress Comrade Aliyu Danglwa in his progress report said the inauguration of the Congress on February 28, 1978 was a particular landmark in the development of trade unionism in Nigeria ■ Profile: Muritala Funmilayo, NLC assistant General secretary Administration: Muritala Funmilayo,was born 35 years ago in Ado-Ekiti, Ondo State. Funmilayo is largely a self-made man whose story reads like a success book. ■ The working class in Africa today: Recently the African working class has been stepping up its struggle against the attempts of bourgeois and petty bourgeois forces to direct the working class movement along a reformist road. ■ Economic Integration: What Choice For Africa? Economic Integration as a form of internationalisation of the economy, is a positive phenomenon. ■ China's 'Precedent': A Precedent derived from Latin "praecedentis" preceding means an earlier occurrence that serves as an example or rule to justify a subsequent act of the same or analogous kindItem Open Access New horizon Magazine no.3, 1979(Mushin, Lagos state( 14, Tamakloe/Kelani Street): The New Horizon Publications 14,, 1979) Edited by Dapo Fatogun; Ikpe Etokudo■ UPN's Bola Ige says we will crush capitalists: our goals are the same as Marxism-Leninism: Anti trade union decrees must be scrapped ■ Muzorewo's victory is a force by Ikpe Etokudo ■ Day and century of militant solidarity of working people: Vasilles Venetianopouloi CC member of CP Greece, member, WMR Editorial council ■ The people pay for Cannon: What the "Soviet Threat" Myth costs the Nation Ken Gill: General council member, British Trade Union Congresses, General Secretary, Technical, Administra tive and Supervisory Section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers ■ Articulating the People's will:The mass media and the Struggle for democratic and revolutionary change, for socialism¹ Takis Mammatisis Alternate member CC Political, Bureau Communist party of Greece ■ Some aspects of Marxist- Christian dialogue Robbert Steigerwald board member, German communist partyItem Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 2726 Saturday August 30 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited., 1969-08-30) West Africa magazine■ Back to Addis Ababa: This week Foreign Ministers of the 42 member countries of the Organi sation of African Unity have started meeting in Addis Ababa for the 13th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers since the birth of the organisa tion six years ago. ■ A month in the country-3: Good Guys and Bad Guys?Dennis Austin, author of “ Politics in Ghana 1946-60” and now a Professor of Government at Manchester University, continues his account of Ghana politics, based on his recent visit after a ten years’ absence. ■ Books and publications: The forsythsaga: The Biafra story by Frederick Forsyth ■ Roundabout: Africans in France: Trouble occurred recently in one of the hostels for African workers in France- who are much fewer in number than Algerians and other North Africans, or Spaniards and Portuguese, ■ Commercial news: Ghana cocoa: serious situation: Strict and urgent measures are needed to rectify a serious situation in Ghana's Cocoa industry Mr I. Mclnroy of Paterson Simons and Ewart said in London after a visit to West Africa ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Triumvirate next week: Ghana's new constitution was promulgated on on Aug. 22, a day after the Constituent Assembly had agreed to add to it a new clause making three NLC mem bers joint members of a Presidential Com mission for three years The Commission is to take office on Sept. 3Item Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 3053 5th February, 1976(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1976-02-05) West Africa magazine■ Nigeria's hundred thousand: When Nigeria’s army is cut-down to around 100.000. as the new govern ment has decided it must be. it will still be the biggest by far in black Africa, and bigger than any of the North African armies except that of Egypt, which is in the front line in the Middle East. ■ Corruption: a basis for security? Last year the Ghana Commission on Bribery and Corruption, which had been established in 1970, finally presented its report.The Commission, headed by Mr. Justice Anin, found that “corruption is endemic throughout the whole society” and suggested both causes for this state of affairs and possible palliatives for it. ■ An international language for Africa?: Recently a correspondent argued that since the new ECOWAS covered one of the most complex areas, linguistically, in the world, it made the search for an African lingua franca more urgent ■ Books and publications: The city and the state: Urban policy and political conflict in Africa by Michael Cohen ■ Economic and business news: Now for the real work: It was not really surprising that the North-South Conference overran its scheduled time of three days, the idea that each of the 27 nations participating would restrict its opening statement to ten minutes was optimism about as justified as expecting the OPEC members ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Another plot" announces Acheampong: Col. Achcampong has announced '“'that another plot to overthrow the government has been un covered and the plotters arrested.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 2728 Saturday September 13 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1969-11-13) West Africa magazine■ Wages and Cocoa: Nobody disputes Mr. Gbedemah’s claim that Dr. Busia's was a surpris ing victory, not because he won or even because he won overwhelmingly, but because of the total eclipse of the National Alliance of Liberals in the Akan-speakmg areas of Ashanti and Southern Ghana. ■ Nigeria at the summit: The OAU summit ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning, having passed among other resolutions, one on the Nigerian civil war, which “appeals to the two parties to preserve in the over riding interest of Africa ■ A month in the country-5: Caesar's Laurel Crown Professor Dennis Austin, continuing his series of articles on Ghana politics, examines further the detailed results of the general election ■ Portrait: The story of 'Prof': Half in admiration, half in exaspera tion. his lieutenants call him “ Prof”. But those who suppose that a man of Dr. Busia’s academic bent can have no talent for leadership should reflect that nobody in Ghana today is ready to name either a powerful rival ■ Commercial news: United tin turns loss into profit: Because of the Nigerian war a "well known international mining group withdrew from negotiations for the purchase of tin mining lease near Jos ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Busia announces 17-man Cabinet ■ Nigeria: Von rosen returns: Count von Rosen has returned to Biafra with five new Swedish planes and five Swedish pilots, according to New York Times reporter Paul Maubec on OwerriItem Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 3055 19th February, 1976(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1976-02-19) West Africa magazine■ Did OAU Survive Angola?: Why did the 22 countries who arrived at the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa without having recognised the MPLA in Angola go away again without changing their minds? ■ What Happened at Addis?: The emergency OAU summit on Angola, finally held in Addis Ababa from January 10-13, ended without a decision. ■ A rich harvest aheads?: Africa needs more food but cannot afford to import it — therefore Africa must grow more food. Weather conditions per mitting — intensive cultivation using chemical fertilisers is the most expedient short term (and long term) approach to growing sufficient food and to mitigate the possibility of future shortages. ■ Books and publications: The glory of Ghana: West African Weaving, by Venice Lamb ■ Tolberts'legacy Tolbert: After finishing the four year term as President for which the late President Tubman was originally elected, Dr. William Tolbert is beginning the eight-year term for which he was himself elected last year. A correspondent attempts to answer the question: what economic legacy does the first term hand over to the second? ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Planning return to civil rule: The SMC is preparing a pro gramme for a return to civilian rule. Col. Achcampong told a news conference called to mark the beginning of the events celebrating the fourth anniversary of the January 13 Revolution. However, he said, it was unwise to set any firm deadline now; as soon as the programme was ready it would be announcedItem Open Access West Africa Magazine No. 3062 8th March 1976(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1976-03-08) West Africa magazine■ Ghana brings pelly traders to book: Since Ghana is now 19 years old thousands of Ghanaians of voting age were born after their country became in dependent. So it is natural, although this would not happen in all countnes similarly placed, that Ghanaians now place the blame for their economic troubles squarely on post independence mismanagement and the practices of their own people. ■ A future for Senegambua?Augustine Oyowe, a Nigerian journalist based in London and Paris reviews the present state of the oft-mooted unification Senegal and the Gambia ■ The Administrate service in Africa: 1: In rural areas throughout Commonwealth West Africa governments are represented by administrative officials even when there political or military representative at regional or provincial level, the administrative officers, whether called residents, provincial or divisional secretaries ■ Books and publications: The Dakar debacle: Operation menace by Arthur Marder ■ Angola: Swords into Ploughshares: As the war ends in Angola, the MPLA turns from the arts of war to the practices of peace. Here, Michael Wolfers writing from Luanda describes the MPLA's programme for education and gives the background to the Ruacana falls dam complex in the south. ■ Economic and business news: Another recovery forecast: A report from GATT, the General agreement on tariff & trade says that world trade should increase this year after the biggest drop since world war two in 1975 ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: New decree hits traders