1st Edition

Africa Today A Short Introduction to African Affairs

By B.W. Hodder Copyright 1978
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

The rapidly increasing importance of Africa in world affairs became apparent by the late 1970s. However, media coverage at that time presented a picture of great complexity, confusion, and even impending disaster. It was easy to take refuge in simplistic, over-generalized, and highly prejudiced explanations for contemporary problems, blaming colonial exploitation, neocolonialism, internal... Read more

Preface Introduction 1. The colonial impact and independence 2. African boundaries and landlocked states 3. Ethnicity and elitism in Africa 4. Race and reality in southern Africa 5. The economic basis of national development 6. National unity 7. Regional cooperation and African unity 8. Africa and the world Conclusions Appendix: Population of Africa by regions and states, mid-1975

Biography

B.W. Hodder

Review of the first publication:

‘…the book should be…adopted as essential preliminary reading for sixth-form, college or university students who are going on to more systematic studies of the continent… The book is a must for all who want to go on to study Africa in more detail or who simply want a guide to some of its complex problems.’

— D Hilling, Geography, Volume 63, issue 4