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Odù · Vol. 2, No. 1 · July 1965
Odù Vol. 2, No. 1
University of Ife Journal of African Studies
About this Issue
The masthead of this issue reads ODU, University of Ife Journal of African Studies — a third identity for the journal, distinct from both the original Ìbàdàn run and the New Series that follows. Edited by I. A. Akinjogbin, acting Director of the Institute of African Studies, with Denis Williams as editorial secretary. Published twice yearly in July and January by Oxford University Press, Ìbàdàn, in association with the Institute, and printed by the Caxton Press (West Africa) in Ìbàdàn. Annual subscription 12s 6d; single issues 6s 6d.
The editorial statement sets out the ambition plainly: a journal based in Africa, hoping “to provide a focus for developing research on African soil”, functioning at two levels — as an organ of international African Studies and as an organ of local studies “in the tradition of ODU — Journal of Yoruba, Edo, and Related Studies to which it succeeds”.
Contents: Malcolm Ruel on witchcraft, morality and doubt; Archibald Callaway on traditional crafts and modern industries; John Ballard on the Porto Novo incidents of 1923; Robin Horton on recent finds of brasswork in the Niger Delta; James O’Connell on government and politics in the Yorùbá African churches; and book reviews.
The editorial statement sets out the ambition plainly: a journal based in Africa, hoping “to provide a focus for developing research on African soil”, functioning at two levels — as an organ of international African Studies and as an organ of local studies “in the tradition of ODU — Journal of Yoruba, Edo, and Related Studies to which it succeeds”.
Contents: Malcolm Ruel on witchcraft, morality and doubt; Archibald Callaway on traditional crafts and modern industries; John Ballard on the Porto Novo incidents of 1923; Robin Horton on recent finds of brasswork in the Niger Delta; James O’Connell on government and politics in the Yorùbá African churches; and book reviews.
