VOLUME XXIV. NO. 4 OCTOBER 1954 AFRICA JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE JOURNAL DE L'INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL AFRICAIN ZEITSCHRIFT DES INTERNATIONALEN AFRIKANISCHEN INSTITUTS Editor DARYLL FORDE Assistant Editor B. E. WYATT LONDON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE Issued quarterly All rights reserved Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 29 Sep 2021 at 03:18:42, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972000078591 CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page THE 'DESCENT' OF THE TIV FROM IBENDA HILL. B.AkigaSai {translated and annotated by Paul Bohannan) 295 THE OHU SYSTEM OF SLAVERY IN A NORTHERN IBO VILLAGE-GROUP. W. R. G. Horton 311 ELEMENTS DE POTLATCH CHEZ LES HAMBA. Luc de Heusch 337 MODERN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMONG THE MAKUA. Wilfred Whitely 349 L'HERITAGE CHEZ LES AGNI. Andre J. Kobben 359 CHAGGA TRUTH. Franz Baermann Steiner 364 NOTES SUR LES MARCHES MOSSI DU YATENGA. D. Zahan 37° CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NUMBER 377 NOTES AND NEWS 378 GRANT TO THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION, NEW YORK; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OFFICE ON THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; WEST AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH ; INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'AFRIQUE NOIRE J GROWTH OF EAST AFRICA'S FIRST MUSEUM; RHODESIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IN THE GOLD COAST; PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS ON PREHISTORY; A SURVEY OF THE TRAINING OF THE MINISTRY IN AFRICA; AREA RESEARCH IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA; 'AFRICAN NEWS'; RECORDS OF AFRICAN MUSIC. REVIEWS OF BOOKS 386 NUPE RELIGION, by S. F. Nadel (R. G. Lienhardt); PEOPLES ET NATIONS D'OUTRE-MER (AFRIQUE-ISLAM-ASIE DU SUD), par Hubert Deschamps (Roland Oliver); ESSAI SUR LA RELIGION BAMBARA, par Germaine Dieterlen (Henri Labouret); LA COHESION DES SOCIETES BARA, par Jacques Faublee (Hubert Deschamps); LES ESPRITS DE LA VIE A MADAGASCAR, par Jacques Faublee (Hubert Deschamps); THE NANDI OF KENYA, by G. W. B. Hunting ford (L. P. Mair); ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRIBAL CHANGE, edited by Audrey Richards; LAND TENURE IN BUGANDA, byA.B. Mukwaya (L. P. Mair). BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CURRENT PUBLICATIONS 394 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 29 Sep 2021 at 03:18:42, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972000078591.