West Africa magazine2025-11-132025-11-131972-04-07https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2329The Issue 2860 of West Africa Magazine (week ending 7th April 1972) blends big-picture economics and local colour. Published in London/distributed in Apapa, it asks if UNCTAD can save Africa’s trade woes pre-New Delhi, shines a spotlight on booming Warri (Nigeria’s “oil city), and serves drama via E.Y. Aduamah’s serialized story. Plus: art, cocoa deadlock news, and Ghanaian military reshuffles. Highlights include a skeptical look at UNCTAD’s potential for Africa (Can UNCTAD help…?); a deep dive into Warri’s oil-fuelled transformation (Nigeria: Warri Oil city); and fiction gold with Aduamah’s The season of crisis. Books praises William Fagg’s The Living Arts of Nigeria as a Nigerian treasure trove. Elsewhere: cocoa pact talks hit a wall in Geneva (Commercial news), and Ghana’s Col. Acheampong grabs ultimate military power as C-in-C (Dateline Africa). A heady mix of hope, art, and oil politics.■ Can UNCTAD help Africa's trade? In the eve of the second UN conference on trade and development UNCTAD in New Delhi ■ Nigeria: Warri-Oil city: 2: Perhaps the best reflection of the changing economic position of the town is Warri port ■ The season of crisis:E. Y. Aduamah continues the life history of Dede and her friend Madam Altastes begun in West Africa December 3, 1971 ■ Books and publications:Nigerian articles today- The living arts of Nigeria Edited by William Fagg ■ Commercial news: Cocoa pact stalemate? Preliminary talks in Geneva about the establishment of an international cocoa pact ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana Acheampong C-in-C: The chairman of the National Redemption Col Acheampong has become Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed forcesenArticle