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AFRICAN  STUDIES

RESEARCH
REVIEW

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New  Series

Vol.  2.  No.  2.  July  1986

U N I V E R S I TY  OF  GHANA

LEGON

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S E R I ES

V0L«2,  No-  2

July  1986

Published  by

I n s t i t u te 

of  African  Studies

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RESEARCH .REVIEW  (New  Series)

INSTITUTE  OF  AFRICAN  STUDIES 

-  LBGON

Kwame  Arhin

M.E.  Dakubu

Irene  Odotei

Afari  Gyan

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The Internal Spatial Organisation
of 'Traditional Houses in the
Northern Volta Basin of Ghana 

E. Kofi Agorsah

Land, Chieftaincy And Political
Stability in Colonial Ghana 

Kwame A. Ninsin 

135

Presuppositions in the Study of
African Social and Political
Thought 

Max Assimeng 

167