UNIVERSITY OF GHANA INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES ' VOL 3 NO 3 TRINITY TERM K it VNIVERSIT1 OF GHANA INSTITUTE OP AFRICAN STUDIES RESEARCH REVIEW VOL.3 NO.3 TRINITY TERM 1967. * * s * RESEARCH REVIEW CONTENTS INSTITUTE NEWS staff Advertisements ... ... ... ... • • • • • • LEADING ARTICLE The Lakpa - Principal deity of Labadi • • t INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORTS A New Approach to Ethiopia in the 18th and 19th Century ... ... A Profile on Musi a i Movement in the Volta Region, Part II ... Some Reflections on Afrioan Trade Toute8 Kintampo 1967 Significance of Written and Oral Tradition* ... ... in the Social Organization of the Wala , . . . PROJECT REPORTS Conference Revort NOTES A note on Tradition and the History of Art in Western Ghana ... ... and Ntstn ... ... LIBRARY AND MUSEUM REPORTS Seminar Papers by M.A. Students ... Ethnographic "Finds" - Decorative and other useful art • • i ii 2 44 64 63 72 78 82 84 91 97 100 INSTITUTE NEWS Staff New Appointments i Mr. I.K. Chinebuah B.A., M.A.(Lond) has been appointed a Research Fellow in Linguistics. Mr. K. Asare Opoku B.A.(Lond.), B.D.(Yale) has been appointed a Research Fellow in Religion and Ethics. * • Visiting Professors Professor Richard Greenfield of Division of Area Studies, State University College, New Palts, New York who visited the Institute as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow returned to the United States of America. ft -•V- Mr* • x * ii. INSTITUTE NEWS CHARGE FOR DUBBING We have now decided to charge individuals and Institutions who send in requests for copies of recordings held by the Institute. (1) (2) (3) (4) Henceforth a charge of 5ONP shall be made for an item of 3 minutes dura- tion, and items of longer or shorter duration shall be charged pro-rata. Thus 30 minutes of recordings would cost N05.OO. A list of the items recorded for any individual will be made and he will be asked to give a written undertaking that he will use the material for him- self or his institution and that he will not sell or publish it commer- cially. Photographs and documentary material on the recordings shall be ordered separately and paid for. Institutions can have free copies of our material on exchange basis. Special consideration may also be given to members of the University of Ghana who wish to have copies of recordings for study or for their enjoyment. INSTITUTE NEWS iii. MRS. M.W.F, TALBOT deceased THE AMAURY TALBOT FUND ANNUAL PRIZE The attention of Africanists is drawn to an Annual Prize being offered by the Amaury Talbot Fund, The Trustees invite applications for the Prize, being the income of £5333.12.1. 41 Consolidated Stock less expenses (approximately £150 net). The Prize will be awarded to the author or authors of the most valuable of the works of anthropological research which are sub- mitted in the competition. Only works published during the calendar year 1967 are eligible for the award. Pre- ference will be given to works relating in the first place to Nigeria and in the second place to any other part of West Africa or to West Africa in general. Works -relating to other regions of Africa are, however, also eligible for submission. All applications, together with two copies of the book, article or work in question, to be received by 31st December 1967 by the Trustees, Barclays Bank Limited, Trustee Department, 35/37 Broadmead, Bristol 1. Entries will not be returned to candidates but will be at the disposal of the Judges. •?