ABSTRACT
Africa represents 20% of the world’s land area, making it the same size as China, India, the United States and Europe combined. This immense continent is far from uniform and is characterized by highly diverse situations and dynamics, not only geographically and environmentally, but also at the cultural, social and economic level. Its borders notwithstanding, Africa is connected by regionalization processes that are bringing neighbouring countries closer together politically, and by human movements, economic exchanges and natural systems that cross the continent from north to south and east to west. This continental solidarity forms a space for shared challenges and converging opportunities, giving rise to increasingly solid and complex intra-African relations. It is the many faces of Africa and the links between them that the second part of this Atlas proposes to explore. Traditional Ethiopian baskets. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003190028/00ec6b88-759b-4d72-a475-55ff1b658f78/content/fig0_42.jpg"/> Photo © Evgenii Zotov/Getty Images.
