Necrology

• SAfA is deeply saddened to learn that it lost one of its founders, Peter Shinnie, on July 9, 2007.  Nic David and Diane Lyons have provided his obituary.
  
  
• Merrick Posnansky informs us o the death of Richard B.Nunoo, the first African archaeologist of Africa.  He worked with Thurstan Shaw at Achimota Museum (the forerunner of the Ghana Museum) and dug at places like Dawu for which he did some of the art work. Independently he excavated sites inland from the coast that were published in Man. He became the director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board in  the late 1950's and thus was the first African director of a major African museum. In 1971 he was the first African executive council member of the Pan African Prehistory Congress. He received many UNESCO and individual African country honors in his time. He taught on retirement in one of the City of new York colleges and gained a following among many young African-American scholars and advanced a knowledge of Africa among a broad community. He guest lectured at many universities in the states in the 1970's including UCLA where he opened a special exhibition on Fante flags. He was always a great supporter of archaeology in Ghana and helped us at Begho considerably. He was a welcoming host and accomplished a great deal for our discipline.

• F. Clark Howell, noted palaeoanthropologist and Africanist, passed away on Saturday evening, 10 March, 2007.  He died peacefully at home, with his family members in attendance, after a diagnosis of cancer a bit over three months ago.

  His son Brian Howell has kept a personal blog on-line with details of his illness and plans for a memorial service a few weeks hence. Brian's blog can be viewed here.

  The family requests that as a memorial to Clark, donations may be made to the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.

  
  
• Recent Obituaries:
  • T. Togola
  • O. Eluyemi
  • F. Willett