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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Africa: A Geographic Preface | |
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| The Moving ITCZ | |
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| Natural Regions | |
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| Continents Adrift | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| The Peopling of Africa | |
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| Political Patterns of the Past | |
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| Trade, Exploration, and Conquest | |
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| The Colonial Period | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| African Politics | |
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| The Impact of Colonialism | |
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| Nationalism and the Politics of Independence | |
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| The Transfer of Power | |
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| Independence | |
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| The Centralization of State Power | |
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| Patronage, the Patrimonial State, and Personal Rule | |
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| Military Intervention | |
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| The Political Economy of Decline | |
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| State and Society in Crisis | |
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| Structural Adjustment and the Reordering of the State | |
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| Beyond Autocracy | |
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| The Economies of Africa | |
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| Precolonial Economies | |
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| The Influence of Colonialism | |
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| Postcolonial Development Strategies | |
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| Current Issues | |
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| African International Relations | |
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| The Dependency-Decolonization Debate | |
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| The Formulation and Implementation of African Foreign Policies | |
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| Pan-Africanism and the Organization of African Unity | |
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| Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration | |
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| The Role of Foreign Powers in African International Relations | |
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| The United Nations and International Financial Institutions | |
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| The Changing Equation of Military Intervention | |
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| Toward the Future | |
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| Population, Urbanization, and AIDS | |
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| Precolonial and Colonial Periods | |
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| Postindependence Trends | |
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| Family Planning | |
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| Urban Population Policy | |
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| AIDS in Africa | |
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| Africa's Environmental Problems | |
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| The Environment in Africa | |
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| Contemporary Problems of the African Environment | |
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| Development and the Environment | |
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| Other Issues of Environmental Concern | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Family and Kinship | |
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| African Kinship and Marriage | |
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| New Areas of Study and Holdovers from the Past in Contemporary African Societies | |
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| Challenges to Contemporary African Kinship Systems | |
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| Women and Development | |
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| Women in Precolonial Africa | |
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| European Penetration | |
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| The Postindependence Period | |
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| Women in the Economy | |
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| Women and Politics | |
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| Prospects for African Women | |
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| Religion in Africa | |
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| African Traditional Religions | |
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| Christianity in Africa | |
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| Islam in Africa | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| African Literature | |
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| African Oral Literature | |
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| Written Literature in African Languages | |
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| African Literature in European Languages | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| South Africa | |
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| The Peopling of South Africa | |
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| The Roots of Racial Discrimination | |
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| The Advent of the British Factor | |
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| The Mineral Revolution | |
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| The United Settler State | |
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| Nationalist Rule and the Creation of the Apartheid State | |
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| The Attempt to Modernize Apartheid | |
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| Dismantling the Apartheid State | |
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| The Tortuous Road to a New South Africa | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trends and Prospects | |
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| Poverty Reduction | |
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| Debt | |
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| Trade and Investment | |
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| Aid | |
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| Information Technology | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Basic Political Data | |
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| The Contributors | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Book | |