This requirement to combine the new with the old is part of the reason for the paucity of published research on non-Western cultures by non-Western scholars. Although scholars in Ethiopia and Ghana, for instance, are producing a tremendous amount of fascinating ne data little of it is published in the West. This is largely because African schol ars have limited access to Western journals and books and so cannot relate their findings to Western approaches, and partly because these alien approaches infrequently explain their findings. Thus, the requirement that articles be related to Western thought does result in the exclusion of wonderful research