Ibrahim Abdulai's Testament: A Dagomba Drummer Talks About His Culture

FAIN: RO-*0597-81

Institute for the Study of Human Issues (Philadelphia, PA 19104-3318)
John M. Chernoff (Project Director: May 1980 to October 1990)

To support completion of a two-volume ethnographic survey of the Dagomba people of nothern Ghana based on tape-recorded and transcribed lectures by an elder in the society -- the first comprehensive study of an African culture in the words of an indigenous scholar untrained in Western methods of inquiry.