Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Independence : promise at the new dawning / Graham Chapman and Kathleen Baker
  • The changing geography of Southern Africa / Deborah Potts
  • The changing geography of Central Africa / Felicite Awassi Atsimadja
  • The changing geography of West Africa / Kathleen Baker
  • The changing geography of Eastern Africa / Anthony O' Connor
  • The changing geography of North Africa : development, migration and the demographic time bomb / George Joffe
  • The changing geography of the Lower Nile : Egypt and Sudan as Riparian states / J. Anthony Allan
  • The troubled Arab Middle East / John B. Gould
  • The non-Arab Middle East : Iran, Turkey and Israel / Keith McLachlan
  • Conclusions : A growing sense of urgency / Graham Chapman and Kathleen Baker.