AFRICA: DISPELLING THE MYTHS

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Edition

Issue 2

Creator

Africa Policy Information Center

Place Created

Washington, DC, United States

Date

April 1995

Type of Item

Pamphlet

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

The pamphlet says the African continent is made up of 56 independent countries; climates vary from Mediterranean to desert; tropical rainforest occupies less than one tenth of the area, and the most common landscape is open savannah grassland; there are over 1,000 African languages and English, French, Portuguese and Arabic are also widely spoken; and the population of individual countries varies widely from island nations like Cape Verde with less than 500) 000 inhabitants to Nigeria with almost 90 million. The pamphlet says governing systems in Africa range from military regimes and monarchies to civilian single-party states and multi-party systems with active opposition parties; the colonial...

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Organization

Africa Policy Information Center

Coverage Africa

Angola
South Africa
Southern Africa
Africa
Cape Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Morocco
Nigeria
Sudan

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of Africa Action (successor to the Africa Policy Information Center).

Collection

William Minter papers, Michigan State University Library Special Collections