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Africa A to Z : continental & country profiles / compiler: Pieter Esterhuysen ; cartographer: Elize van As ; updated by: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
- Title
- Africa A to Z : continental & country profiles / compiler: Pieter Esterhuysen ; cartographer: Elize van As ; updated by: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
- Author
- Esterhuysen, Pieter
- Publication
- Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013.
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- Description
- v, 420 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 30 cm
- Summary
- The popularity of the first two editions of this book necessitated a third revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the first edition appeared in 1998. Africa is a vast and fascinating continent whose population has exceeded the one billion mark. Africa A-Z attempts to provide, in a concise manner, the facts for an elementary understanding of the continent and its complex problems. The book falls into two main sections; the five chapters on the first main section focus on the continent as a whole, dealing with its physical and human diversity, its eventful history and Africans' struggle for economic survival. The second main section contains profiles of 58 independent countries, ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Presentation of the profiles is uniform, in that the same themes are covered in each profile. The data panels with the profiles contain data not provided in the text. The maps, appearing throughout the text were produced by AISA's cartography department.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Since 1960
- Demography > Africa > Statistics
- Démographie > Afrique > Statistiques
- Demography
- Economic history
- Geography
- Politics and government
- Population
- Regionale Geografie
- Africa > Politics and government
- Africa > Geography
- Africa > Economic conditions > 1960-
- Africa > Population > Statistics
- Afrique > Politique et gouvernement
- Afrique > Géographie
- Afrique > Conditions économiques > 1960-
- Afrique > Population > Statistiques
- Africa
- Afrika
- Genre/Form
- Statistics.
- Note
- First edition: 1998 ; second revised edition : 2008.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Profile of the continent -- Geography and population -- People and origins -- Colonial to present times -- Developing economies -- Regional economic groupings -- Country profiles A-Z -- Detailed list of contents -- Geographical regions -- Countries -- Selected reading list.
- ISBN
- 9780798303446
- 0798303441
- 9780798304498 (canceled/invalid)
- 0798304499 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 880137745
- SCSB-12567493
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library