West Africa magazine2025-12-062025-12-061969-07-19https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2363Issue 2720 of West Africa Magazine(July 19, 1969) covers Ghana/Nigeria cocoa pricing, Congo's image, and regional updates. Published in London/distributed in Apapa, it reports on cocoa price hikes, Congo's economic push, and Nigeria's civil war context. Key stories: “Focus on Farmers” contrasts Ghana/Nigeria cocoa prices; “Showing the world” highlights Congo's economic drive; Nigeria's states report normalcy (News). Elsewhere: transport economics (Books), Ghana's local govt plans, Dunlop's Nigeria sale (Commercial), and Red Cross Biafra talks (Ghana). A mix – economics, politics, and diplomacy.■ Focus on Farmers: Cocoa growers in Ghana, still grumbling after the fourth increase in as many years in the price they receive for their product, will point jealously to last week's announcement in Nigeria that producers there will now receive the equivalent of £N150 a ton, a 50 per cent increase. ■ Showing the world another Congo: You mustn't judge the Congo on the same level as other African coun tries. All we need is calm and plenty of things will happen,” said the Foreign Minister. Justin Bomboko, in an inter view this week at the Kinshasa Inter national Trade Fair. ■ Books and publications: Roads, railways and politics : Transport economics in developing countries by A. R. Prest ■ Nigeria: News from the States: Outside Nigeria the prominence given to reports of the war and its results sometimes obscures the fact that in most of the Federation, little affected by the crisis, life proceeds normally. ■ Ghana local government plans for the future—2: This concludes the summary of recommendations of the draft constitution, the Constituent Assembly, Part III of the Siriboe report on electoral and Local Govern ment Reform, and the White Paper on this ■ Commercial news : Dunlop sells Nigerian Plantations: Dunlop has sold its Nigerian Plantations subsidiary to the South East State Government for £100.000. Over £3 Im. had been invested in the project and at the time of the outbreak of the civil war half of the 21,000 acres which had been leased near Calabar had been planted. ■ Ghana: No Biafra flights agreement: Talks in Lagos between the International Red Cross Chairman. M. Naville, and mem bers and officials of the Federal Government ended on July 12, without reaching agree ment on daylight relief flights to BiafranenArticle