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INSTITUTE  OF  AFRICAN  STUDIES

RESEARCH REVIEW

VOL.1  N O .l

LENT TERM 1965

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CONTENTS

The  Research  Review 

INSTITUTE  NEWS  :  M . A.  PROGRAMME

Staff  List 
Seminar  Programme 
Theses In  Preparation 

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PROJECT  REPORTS

The  Ashanti  Research  Project 
The  Volta  Basin  Survey 
The  Arabic  Collection 
The  Summer  Institute  of  Linguistics  « 

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INDIVIDUAL  RESEARCH  REPORTS

Field  Work  at  Banda  and  Wenchi 
Portuguese  Archives 
Archives  de  France 
A  Note  on  Ahafo  Oral  Traditions 

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LIBRARY  A ND  MUSEUM  REPORTS

Library  Report 
Museum  Report 

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NOTES

The  New  Mim  Oath 
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Coins  from  Mogadishu 
August in ion  Missions  in  East  Africa 
The  History  of  Pate 

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During  the  past  two  years  the  work  of  the  Institute  of  Afri can  Studies  of

the  University  of  Ghana  has  been  developing  rather  rapidly,  and  we  have  lagged
behind  in  making  available  information  about  the  research  that  is being  carried
on. 
This  publication,  Research  Review,  is  intended  to  help  to  remedy  this  de-
ficiency;  to  provide  some  account  of  work  in  progress  for  those,  in  Ghana  and
elsewhere,  who  are  interested  in  the  kind  of  studies,  collective  iand  individual,
that  are  being  undertaken  in  the  Institute. 
Research  Fellow  of  the  Institute,  to whom  we  are  very  grateful  forlthis  initiative,
and  w i l l,  we  hope,  be  published  three  times  a  year,  once  in  each  academic  term.

It  is edited  by  M r.  Kwame  Arhin,

Much  of  this  first  issue of  Research  Review  is given  over  to  accounts  of  some

of  the  research  activities,  collective  and  individual,  at  present  being  carried
out  in  the  field  of  historical  and  social  studies.  Subsequent  issues will  contain
reports  on other  aspects of  the  Institute's  historical  and  sociological  work,  as
well  as on  research  undertaken  in  the  other  main  fields  with  which  the  Institute
isvconcerned  -  African  languages,  literature  and  the  arts,  and  the  study  of
modern  African  States.

Since the  post-graduate  students  in  the  Institute  are  also  involved  in  the
process of  research,  in  co-operation  with  the  Institute's  staff,  the  Review  will
include  from  time  to  time  some  account  of  their  work  -  in  the  form of  M. A.  or
doctoral  theses,  terminal  papers,  and  the  like.  Enquiries,  comments  and
contributions  from  readers  -  particularly  from  those  working  on  related  topics
and  problems  - w i ll  be  welcomed.