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Address of welcome to the First International Congress of Africanists / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Address of welcome to the First International Congress of Africanists / K. Onwuka Dike -- Address delivered to mark the opening of the First International Congress of Africanists / Kwame Nkrumah -- The importance of African studies / K. Onwuka Dike -- The development of Africanist studies in Europe and America / Melville J. Herskovits -- The spirit of 'présence africaine' / Alioune Diop -- The study of African history / K. Onwuka Dike -- The project of Fontes Africae Historiae / Ivan Hrbek -- Prehistory, protohistory, and history of Chad / Jean-Paul Lebeuf -- The history and present status of African linguistic studies / Joseph H. Greenberg -- The origin of Berber noun-prefixes / Karl-G. Prasse -- Ethiopian medical treatises as a source for the study of early Amharic / Stefan Strelcyn -- The influence of religion on African languages / E. Dammann -- An empirical approach to ghosts / F.B. Welbourn -- Islam in Tunisia / A. Bouhdiba -- The study of death in Negro Africa / L.V. Thomas -- Problems of economic independence of African countries / I. Potekhin -- Social research and problems of African economic and social development / Absolom L. Vilakazi -- The place of African customary law in modern African legal systems / Anthony Allott -- Folklore and literature / Bernard B. Dadie -- African literature / Ezekiel Mphahlele -- African art / Elimo P. Njau -- Sculptors and sculptures of the Dan / Hans Himmelheber -- Unity and diversity in African music: a problem of synthesis / J.H. Nketia -- Africanism confronted with problems of political anthropology and political sociology / G. Balandier -- Notes on the socio-economic and cultural role of Sufi brotherhoods and Marabutism in the modern Maghrib / P. Shinar -- Ethnographical research into the present changes in the mode of life of urban population in Africa / O. Skalnikova -- Science and technology in relation to Africa's development / R.P. Baffour -- Current problems in the education of an African scientist, and the role such a scientist could play in the economic and social development of Africa / N.C. Otieno -- The application of recent advances in the knowledge of nutrition to community development in Nigeria / I.S. Dema -- Malaria, population growth and economic development in Africa / J.C. Edozien -- Important areas of ignorance and doubt in the psychology of the African / T. Adeoye Lambo.

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