■ Governments in the Mines- Suggestions that a senior Foreign Office official was sent post-haste to Accra following the announcement that the Ghana government intended to “partici pate” more closely in mining and timber extraction are baseless. ■ Nigeria's East Central State: how near to recovery? ■ OAU : the bilingual Secretary-General ■ Genoveva Marais : a personal view of Kwame Nkrumah ■ An American seeks his African origins ■ Houphouet-Boigny—the "big farmer" ■ What price the star of Sierra Leone? ■ Books and publications- A view of Nkrumah ■ Ivory Coast- The importance of agriculture- In the first of two articles Tamar K. Golan discussed the achievement of and prospect for Ivorien agriculture ■ Commercial news- Ghana cocoa farms 'neglected' ■ Dateline Africa- Ghana- NRC claims Busia plot foiled