On 07/18/06, Angel D Batiste, the Library of Congress specialist in West Africa, wrote Todd Harvey, the curator of the Seeger Collection:

"I am sorry to say that I have had no success in identifying the languages spoken by the Ghanian fisherman in the Seeger film. There are more than 100 linguistic and cultural groups recorded in Ghana. Linguists have placed Ghanaian languages in one or the other of only two major linguistic subfamilies of the Niger-Congo language family. These are the Kwa and Gur groups, found to the south and north of the Volta River, respectively. The Kwa group, which comprises about 75 percent of the country's population, includes the Akan, Ga-Adangbe, and Ewe. North of the Volta River are the three subdivisions of the Gur-speaking people. These are the Gurma, Grusi, and Mole-Dagbane. Each group shares a common cultural heritage, history, language, and origin. Traditionally, the Fanti and Ga-speaking people have lived by fishing."

Can anyone help us?