Samuel Ajayi Crowther-a Biographical Note, Provisional Comparison of the English-based Atlantic Creoles, The Language Situation in Mauritius, with Special Reference to Mauritian Creole, Tone-Marking an Mrican Language, with Application to Bemba, Focus and Entailment-Further Problems of Transitivity In Swahili, Some Lexical Differences among Verbs in Kenya Coastal Swahili Dialects, Sanye and Sandawe-a Common Substratum? Hausa naa-'To be' or not 'to be'? A Rausa Poet in Lighter Vein, Diola-Fogny Funeral Songs and the Native Critic, La Langue Manjaku et l'Alternance Consonantique Initiale and Literature, Language, Script and Vernacular Literature in West Africa, An Ethnolinguistic Inventory of the Lower Guinea Coast before 17oo-Part II, Studies devoted to S. W. Koelle's Polyglotta Africana, Research Review, Publications Received, Notes for Contributors