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LORD LUGARD, as chairman of the Executive Council of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, announces in the current issue of Africa (13, 3; July 1940) that the work of the Bureau and the publication of its periodical Africa must now cease for the duration of the War. In October last it was stated that it was hoped to carry on the Institute's work without serious interruption. Recent developments, however, have made international co-operation impossible, and it has been deemed advisable in the circumstances to cease work until after the War. Certain of the special publications of the Institute, which have proved so valuable to students of African peoples, are in an advanced stage of preparation and will be published as soon as possible—a book on African political systems, recently published by the Institute, is discussed on p. 188 of this issue of NATURE. Further, several research fellows are engaged in writing up their field-notes. Dr. Nadel's notes on the Nupe of Northern Nigeria, and those of Mr. and Mrs. Krige on the Lovedu of the Northern Transvaal have been completed; but Dr. Margaret Read is still engaged on the results of her research in Nyasaland, and more especially on the part she took in the recent nutrition survey of that territory.
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African Studies and the War. Nature 146, 192–193 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146192d0
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