■ Winning Nigeria’s peace: Delegates are now arriving in Ibadan for what is likely to be the greatest gathering of economic experts ever seen at one time in West Africa, ranging from a score of professors in universities all over the world ■ Behind the Rio Muni Rising: Equatorial Guinea's two-stage crisis was apparently started by a very small incident ■ Senegal's deep South: What has struck me is the Sendgale of the Casamance President Senghor of Senegal, coining one of the abstract terms with which he is peculiarly associated ■ Books and publications: Solomon abroad: The fortunate slave by Douglas Grant ■ The Commons and Nigeria: After a spale of prophecies that the government would suffer a severe setback in the debate on British policy toward Nigeria last week ■ Commercial news: Cocoa : middlemen and gammalin: Ghana's Cocoa marketing board is seeking ways to ensure that gammalin is sold direct to farmers and not through middlemen ■ Commercial news: Formal bids for John Holt: Shareholders of John Holt have now received the takeover offer sent on behalf of Lonrho by S. G. Warburg ■ Dateline Africa: Guinea: New plot: France accused: A plot against the government was alleged in broadcasts last week soon after disclosure of the incident where three arrested soldiers tried to seize an aircraft