West Africa magazine2025-11-192025-11-191972-07-14https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2335The issue 2874 of West Africa Magazine (week ending 14th July 1972) is a mid-year snapshot of West African intrigue and analysis. Published by Overseas Newspapers (Agencies) Ltd. London and distributed in Nigeria via Times Press Apapa, it blends politics, economics, and culture. You’ll find an exclusive interview with Senegal’s poetic president Léopold Senghor reflecting on West Africa; reviews of timely books like Private Foreign Investment and the Developing World; and scouts’ warnings about Ivory Coast’s economic turbulence. Highlights include Senghor’s thoughtful thoughts on West African unity, plus dire updates on Ivory Coast’s economy (“alarm sounded”) and Midwest Nigeria’s rubber industry (CDC losses spur crisis). Elsewhere: Atigbi urges Africa to ease tourism rules to cash in, and Dateline Africa logs Ghana’s Sekyi trashing Busia’s regime. Retro-colonial charm meets hard-hitting headlines think Senghor waxing lyrical alongside rubber-sector panic.■ Senghor and West Africa: President Leopold Senghor of Senegal in London on a private visit, was interviewed by West Africa Magazine ■ Books and publications: Private finance in the public eye: Private foreign Investment and the developing world Edited by Peter Adv ■ Ivory Coast: The state of the economy- A host of newspaper articles and quasi-confidential reports have recently sounded the alarm ■ Rubber decline halted in Midwest- After the bad news from the Commonwealth development corporation of the losses ■ Commercial news: Atigbi pleads for tourism- Rigid entry requirements and procedures for visitors to African countries ■ Dateline Africa: Sekyi raps BusiaenArticle