West Africa magazine2025-12-062025-12-061969-08-30https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2372Issue 2726 of West Africa Magazine(August 30, 1969) covers OAU meetings, Ghana's politics, and regional updates. Published in London/distributed in Apapa, it reports on Addis Ababa talks, Ghana's transitional government, and cocoa industry concerns. Key stories: “Back to Addis Ababa” notes OAU Foreign Ministers meet; “A month in country” examines Ghana politics; “The forsythsaga” reviews Biafra book. Elsewhere: Ghana's cocoa crisis (Commercial), Africans in France (Roundabout), and Ghana's Presidential Commission (Dateline Africa). A mix – politics, diplomacy, and economics.■ Back to Addis Ababa: This week Foreign Ministers of the 42 member countries of the Organi sation of African Unity have started meeting in Addis Ababa for the 13th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers since the birth of the organisa tion six years ago. ■ A month in the country-3: Good Guys and Bad Guys?Dennis Austin, author of “ Politics in Ghana 1946-60” and now a Professor of Government at Manchester University, continues his account of Ghana politics, based on his recent visit after a ten years’ absence. ■ Books and publications: The forsythsaga: The Biafra story by Frederick Forsyth ■ Roundabout: Africans in France: Trouble occurred recently in one of the hostels for African workers in France- who are much fewer in number than Algerians and other North Africans, or Spaniards and Portuguese, ■ Commercial news: Ghana cocoa: serious situation: Strict and urgent measures are needed to rectify a serious situation in Ghana's Cocoa industry Mr I. Mclnroy of Paterson Simons and Ewart said in London after a visit to West Africa ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Triumvirate next week: Ghana's new constitution was promulgated on on Aug. 22, a day after the Constituent Assembly had agreed to add to it a new clause making three NLC mem bers joint members of a Presidential Com mission for three years The Commission is to take office on Sept. 3enArticle