ABSTRACT
The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardised outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps.
The basic format of integrated text and maps is supplemented by guides to further reading at the end of each section as well as a series of detailed statistical tables at the end of the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|4 pages
Introduction
part A|30 pages
Environmental
chapter 2|2 pages
Africa: barrier peninsula
chapter 3|4 pages
The physique of Africa
chapter 4|4 pages
Sunshine and storm
chapter 5|2 pages
Soils
chapter 6|2 pages
Vegetation
chapter 7|2 pages
Drought
chapter 8|4 pages
Disease and pestilence
chapter 9|2 pages
Population
chapter 10|2 pages
Languages
chapter 11|2 pages
Literacy
chapter 12|2 pages
Quality of life
part B|28 pages
Histrorical
chapter 14|2 pages
Africa: cradle of humankind
chapter 15|4 pages
Pre-European history
chapter 16|4 pages
European penetration to 1880
chapter 17|2 pages
Slave trades
chapter 18|4 pages
The scramble for Africa
chapter 19|4 pages
Colonial Africa
chapter 20|6 pages
The advance of independence
part C|56 pages
Political
chapter 22|2 pages
The states of modern Africa
chapter 23|4 pages
Boundary problems
chapter 24|4 pages
Land-locked states
chapter 25|2 pages
A political pecking order
chapter 26|2 pages
Africa must unite!
chapter 27|2 pages
Libya and its neighbours
chapter 28|4 pages
Coups d'état and military rule
chapter 29|2 pages
Zaire: the threat of secessionism
chapter 30|8 pages
Nigeria: strength through unity
chapter 31|4 pages
Uganda: ravaged Garden of Eden
chapter 32|2 pages
Liberia: a civil war spills over
chapter 33|4 pages
Somalia: irredentism to civil war
chapter 34|2 pages
Angola: a cold war killing field
chapter 35|2 pages
The French connection
chapter 36|2 pages
Kamerun, Cameroun, Cameroon
chapter 37|4 pages
African imperialism: Ethiopia and Eritrea
chapter 38|4 pages
African imperialism: Morocco and Western Sahara
part D|68 pages
Economics
chapter 40|2 pages
Poverty
chapter 41|2 pages
National economies
chapter 42|2 pages
Traditional economic systems
chapter 43|2 pages
Causes of famine
chapter 44|6 pages
Cash crops and colonialism
chapter 45|2 pages
War, disaster and refugees
chapter 46|1 pages
Development and population growth
chapter 47|1 pages
International development aid
chapter 48|2 pages
Debt, the IMF and restructuring
chapter 49|2 pages
Ghana and Ivory Coast: different development paths
chapter 50|4 pages
Minerals and mining
chapter 51|2 pages
Zambia: a mining economy
chapter 52|2 pages
Manufacturing
chapter 53|4 pages
Wildlife and tourism
chapter 54|2 pages
Kenya: capitalism and tourism
chapter 55|2 pages
Migratory labour
chapter 56|2 pages
Urbanization
chapter 57|4 pages
Capital cities
chapter 58|6 pages
Transport
chapter 59|1 pages
Energy resources and utilization
chapter 60|8 pages
Harnessing Africa's rivers
chapter 61|4 pages
Regional economic groupings
part E|16 pages
The South