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AFRICAN  STUDIES

RESEARCH
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VOL  9  No.  I
1973

UNIVERSITY  OF  GHANA

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EDITORIAL  COMMITTEE

Professor  J.  H.  Nketia
Rev.  Dr.  G.  Ansre
Dr.  K.  N.  Bame
Mrs.  G  Oppong
Mr.  J.  K.  Agovi 

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tions  should  be  addressed  to  the  Publications  Officer,  Institute  of  African
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CONTENTS

Religious  Values  and  Social  Change:  Paradigms  in  Theory  and

Research - Max  Assimeng 

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The Regional Boundaries  of  Ghana  1874—1972—R.B. Bening  —

Asante  and Akyem  Relations  1700—1831 — J.K.  Fynn  —  —

Theories  and  Motives  of  Military  Coups  D'etat 

in  Independent

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African  States—Eze  Ogueri  II 

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The  Teaching  Profession  in the  History  of  Ghanaian

Education—K.N.  Bame 

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Preliminary  Observation  on  the  Modern  Short  Story  and  the  African

Folktale  Tradition—J.K.E-  Agovi  —  —  —  — 

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BOOK  REVIEW

CONTEXTS  OF  KINSHIP:

An  Essay  on  the  Family  Sociology  of  the  Gonja  of  Northern

Ghana  : E.N. Goody, Cambridge  Studies  in  Social  Anthropology

No. 7, Cambridge University  Press  1973 pp. 335. Price  £6. 20  in

United  Kingdom 

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RESEARCH  REPORTS:

Third  Interdisciplinary  Family  Seminar  held  jointly  with  Home

Science  Department.  Seminar  on  the  Brong  people  —

Oxford  University  Colonial  Records  Project 

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African  Administrative  Studies 

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COMMUNICATION:

Seminar  on  the  Brong people  —

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