by Keith Irvine and John Somers
Reference Publications
Accra, Ghana, West Africa
1977
It has become commonplace that a simplified and unfavorable image of Africa and its past has often prevailed outside the continent. While this fact has frequently been noted and deplored, until now no major step has been taken to alter it.
The production of this dictionary is, however, such a major step. It has been a source of great satisfaction to us that those who have become connected with the project as the work proceeded, no less than those who had kept it alive in the past, sometimes against all odds, immediately recognized that they were participating in something of “great pith and moment,” whose positive consequences, direct and indirect, would be most important.
We are proud to publish this work.
Keith Irvine
John Somers
Reference Publications, Inc.
Accra, Ghana, West Africa
1977
