We are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of Ghana Studies, the annual journal of the Ghana Studies Council, is now at the printer and will be mailed out to subscribers shortly. To subscribe send your name and mailing address to:

African Studies Program

205 Ingraham Hall

1155 Observatory Drive

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI 53706

Subscription information can also be e-mailed to: afrst@macc.wisc.edu

You will be sent an invoice with your copy of vol. 1. Subscription rates are $15.00 for individuals and $30.00 for institutions.

The following is the table of contents of vol. 1, dated 1998:

• Edmund ABAKA, "EATING KOLA": THE PHARMACOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF KOLA NUTS," pp. 1-11.
  
  
• Kwabena AKURANG-PARRY, "SLAVERY AND ABOLITION IN THE GOLD COAST: COLONIAL MODES OF EMANCIPATION AND AFRICAN INITIATIVES," pp. 13-36.
  
  
• Robert Kwame AMEH, "TROKOSI (CHILD SLAVERY) IN GHANA: A POLICY APPROACH," pp. 37-63.
  
  
• Kwadwo KONADU-AGYEMANG, "HOUSING CONDITIONS AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION IN ACCRA, 1950s-1990s," pp. 65-92.
  
  
• T. C. MCCASKIE, "AKWANKWAA: OWUSU SEKYERE AGYEMAN IN HIS LIFE AND TIMES," pp. 93-124.
  
  
• Richard RATHBONE, "TRANSFERRING POWER IN GHANA: SOME THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE ARCHIVES MIGHT BE TELLING US," pp. 125-35.
  
  
• Victoria C. TASHJIAN, "THE DIARIES OF A. C. DUNCAN-JOHNSTONE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF BRITISH INVOLVEMENT IN THE 'NATIVE COURTS' OF COLONIAL ASANTE," pp. 137-53.
  
  
• Ivor G. WILKS, "'UNITY AND PROGRESS': ASANTE POLITICS REVISITED," pp. 155-82.

Paper submissions to Ghana Studies on any Ghana-related subject in any field are most welcome. Please supply three printed copies of your paper, doubled-spaced throughout, along with a version on disk (Macintosh or Windows format, Word or WordPerfect word-processing program preferred). We are flexible on length, but prefer that submissions not exceed 8000 words. Please follow the style sheet found on the inside back cover of the Journal of African History.

Send Submissions to:

Larry Yarak, Editor

Ghana Studies

Department of History

Texas A& M University,

College Station, TX 77843-4236.

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