Africa Journal of the International African Institute Revue de rinstitut Africain International Volume 57, 1987

Edited by Murray Last

Reviews Editor Paul Richards

I-A-I

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Editors • Redacteurs Murray Last • Paul Richards Consultant editor • Christopher Fyfe • Ridacteur consultatif Reviews Editor • Paul Richards • Ridacteur, comptes rendus

Consultant Editors • Redacteurs consultatifs A. E. Afigbo • Abdel Ghaffer M. Ahmed • W. van Binsbergen • John Comaroff • Gudrun Dahl • Katsuyoshi Fukui • C. Magbaily Fyle J. A. K. Kandawire • Carol P. MacCormack • Wyatt MacGaffey • Adolfo Mascarenhas • J.-C. Muller • Moriba Toure

Sierra Leone, 1787-1987

Foreword • by the Vice-Chancellor, University of 407 Introduction 408 History and politics 1787-1887-1987: reflections on a Sierra Leone bicentenary • Christopher Fyfe 411 The dissolution of City Council in 1926: a negative example of political apprenticeship in colonial Sierra Leone • AkintolaJ. G. Wyse 422 Women in Freetown politics, 1914-61: a preliminary study • LaRayDenzer 439

Ecology and technology The socio-ecology of firewood and charcoal on the Freetown peninsula • R. Akindele Cline^Cole 457 Culture, technology and policy in the informal sector: attention to endogenous development • C. Magbaily Fyle 498 Photography in Sierra Leone, 1850-1918 • Vera Viditz-Ward 510

Culture and language The national languages of Sierra Leone: a decade of policy experimentation • JokoSengova 519 Journal of the International African Institute Revue de l'lnstitut Africain International

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Short communications Colonial Freetown and the study of African languages • P. E. H. Hair 560 Africa in the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • Paul Richards 566 Sierra Leone and South Africa • Gustav H. K. Deveneaux 572 The changing face of Samuel Lewis: a personal memoir • John Hargreaves 576

Reviews of books 579 Adam Jones and Peter K. Mitchell (eds.), Proceedings of the fourth Confer- ence, Birmingham Sierra Leone Studies Symposium (c. P. FORAY); Kwame Arhin, West African Colonial Civil Servants in the Nineteenth Century (A. PORTER).

General index to Vol. 57 586

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DR AKINDELE CLINE-COLE Department of Geography, Bayero University, Kano DR LARAY DENZER Department of History, University of Ibadan DR GUSTAV H. K. DEVENEAUX Department of History, Fourah Bay College CHRISTOPHER FYFE Centre of African Studies, University of PROFESSOR p. E. H. HAIR Department of History, University of Liverpool PROFESSOR ULF HANNERZ Department of Social Anthropology, Universi- ty of Stockholm PROFESSOR JOHN HARGREAVES Banchory, PROFESSOR c. MAGBAILY FYLE Institute of African Studies, Fourah Bay College DR PAUL RICHARDS Department of Anthropology, University College London DR JOKO SENGOVA Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Fourah Bay College NEVILLE SHRIMPTON Department of English, University of Umea, Sweden VERA VIDITZ-WARD Department of Fine Arts/Photography, University of Indiana, Bloomington PROFESSOR AKINTOLA j. G. WYSE Department of History, Fourah Bay College

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