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.

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 35|2 pages

The French connection

chapter 36|2 pages

Kamerun, Cameroun, Cameroon

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 47|1 pages

International development aid

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 60|8 pages

Harnessing Africa's rivers

chapter 61|4 pages

Regional economic groupings

part E|16 pages

The South