ABSTRACT
This section of the discussion begins to introduce the challenges facing tourism development in Africa in the future within the context of the postindependence period. It attempts to synthesize some of the main arguments advanced in the 1970s and 1980s in support of tourism development on the continent. For the most part, these were the same arguments, mostly economic in nature, that were advanced for developing countries in general (de Kadt,
1979; Lea, 1988). However, some of the arguments took into consideration specific African conditions and concerns.
