ABSTRACT
The order of presentation of the African countries will follow a political/ geographical sequence, starting in the northeast with Egypt, and then the three ex-French colonies of the Maghreb-Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. The other ex-French colonies from south of the Sahara are studied next, with detailed data for any year prior to 1970 available only for the Côte d’Ivoire. Two isolated cases are then considered, that of independent Liberia, and that of Belgium’s only colony, the Congo.1 Finally, Britain’s colonies are considered in three groupings-west, east, and southern Africa.
