60. NOTES It is hoped that it may be possible to Swahili historical manuscripts. publish these, together with a number of other Swahili historical texts, in Swahili in Roman characters with an English translation, during 1968. In collaboration with Monsieur Jean Aubin, of the Sorbonrte,, arrangements have also been made for the publication of some Arabic documents of the sixteenth century written in the Chanceries of the Sultanates of Malindi and Kilwa, in Kenya and Tanzania respectively, which throw important light upon the court culture there at the period. G.S.P. Freeman-Grenvflle. WORK IN GHANA We have nearly completed our present stay in Ghana and want to sum up what we have been able to do during our time here. 1. Teaching; (a) Jack Goody at the institute of African Studies and Department of Sociology, Trinity term, 1964, Trinity term and Michaelmas term, 1965. (b) Esther Goody at the Institute, Michaelmas term, T964. 2* Research: (a) Esther Goody Salaga, March-October, 1964. Travelling in the Northern Ghana, March-April, 1965 Bole, 12-7-65 - 29-10-65. Bole, Brong Ahafo and Ashanti, November 18-Dec 5, 1965. Surveys in Anomabu and Tefle, May-June, 1965. NOTES 6 1. (b) Jack Goody Salaga, March-April, July-October, 1964. Travelling in Northern Ghana, March-April, 1965 Western Gonja, Brong Ahafo, Wa and BirSfu, 12-7-65 - 29-10-65. Gon|a, March, 1966. We have spent a part of the time In Legon working In the National Archives. In general, Esther Goody has concentrated upon domestic organisa- tions (see report in Research Review No.3) while Jack Goody has worked on political organisation as well as on particular problems like literacy incor- poration of settlement etc. Publications (written in Ghana). (a) Esther Goody Some Types of Fostering in Ghana, Ghana J« of Sociology. N o . 3, 1966. (b) With Jack Goody i* The Circulation of Women and Children Sn Northern Ghana, (forthcoming). i l. Permitted, Preferred and Prohibited Cross-Cousin Marriage in Northern Ghana (forthcoming). (c) Jack Goody i. 1965 Tribal, Racial, Religious and Language Problems in Africa, in Man arid Africa - A Ciba Foundation Symposium (ed. G. WoJstenholme and M.O'Connor) London. i i. The Social Organisation of Time, art. for international Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. 62. NOTES Hi. Introduction to Ashanti and the Northwest, Supplement No. 1 to the Research Review, Vol.l W66. Iv. Saiaga in 1876, Ghana Notes and Queries (forthcoming) v. The A|can and the NoFthf J. Ghana Hist. Soc. ~ (forthcoming). vL Introduction and Part I I, J.A. Braimah and Jack Goody The Civil Wars of Saiaga, Longmans (forthcoming). v i i. Marriage Policy and Incorporation in Northern Ghana, in Processes of Political Incorporation in African Society (ed. R. Cohen and J. Middleton). Evanston,111 inois.f v i t i. Siltma, Ghana Notes and Queries (forthcoming) with T.M. Musrapha. \* Wenchi and its Inhabitants, in Ashanti and the Northwest i i. Saiaga in 1874, Research Review No.4, Institute of African Studies, Legon (forthcoming). with C.Y. Boateng. The History and Traditions of Nkoranza, in Ashanti and the Northwest, Edited f . O. Ryte efc a l, Gonja Proverbs I I. J.C. Sougah, the History and Social Organisation ofWa. 4* Records and Reca«d&>g$ Four long play tapes of Gonfa music have been deposited in the Institute's library including a recording of the Gonfa NOTES 63, drum history. Additions have been made to the Arabic MS in the Institute's collection. We would like to thank all members of the Institute for their help in making this work possible, as well as our personal assistants, Anna Craven and Birgirte Rode-Moller. We are grateful to the Institute of Education, the Wenner- Gren Foundation and the Leverhuime Foundation to the University of Cambridge, to the Ministry of Overseas Development as well as to the University of Ghana for financial assistance. Jack and Esther Goody. A NOTE ON THE ARABIC MS IASAI^/298, AND OTHERS FROM WA The manuscript IASA(y /298* is a short work in Arabic entitled Al-Akhbar Soltanat Bilad Wa, 'Informatibn on the sultanate of the town ofWa1. Wa, in the north-west of Ghana, is a town -of •great ethnographic complexity. Briefly, the Nabihi or princes, of Mamprusst-Dagomba origins, provide the Wa Na who is secular ruler of the whole state, and also chiefs *AM IASAR references are to the Arabic collection, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana (xerox copies).