Abstract
A new Stormin' Norman has appeared, but the action has shifted from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Guinea and from the sands of the Arabs to the forests of the Akan. Stormin' Norman Klein sets out to destroy not missile sites but rather an academic It is one that I supposedly created two decades ago and recently republished, essentially intact, in Forests of Gold (hereafter cited as FG). In the interim I have apparently fooled a number of excellent scholars (Klein names Kea, McCaskie, and Stahl) into uncritically accepting the Well, well! I shall not bore the reader with speculations about just what Klein means by myth. Suffice to say that my problematic was the transition from foraging to agriculture in the Akan country between the Pra and Offin Rivers, and that my procedure was to work with an imagined scenario on the one hand and the available evidence (written records, orally transmitted texts, archaeological findings, and so forth) on the other, to secure as close a fit as possible between scenario and sources. If such is the stuff of myth, so be it. Klein, we may note, several times remarks that in I995 he will publish a new interpretation that will supplant my myth. On this matter judgment must be reserved, for we are given few hints of its substance.
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