Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Independence - Promise at the New Dawning Graham Chapman and Kathleen Baker 2. The Changing Geography of Southern Africa Deborah Potts 3. The Changing Geography of Central Africa Felicite Awassi Atsimadja 4. The Changing Geography of West Africa Kathleen Baker 5. The Changing Geography of East Africa Anthony O'Connor 6. The Changing Geography of North Africa: Development, Migration and the Demographic Time-Bomb George Joffe 7. The Changing Geography of the Lower Nile: Egypt and Sudan as Riparian States J. Anthony Allan 8. The Troubled Arab Middle East St. John B. Gould 9. The Non-Arab Middle East: Iran, Turkey and Israel Keith McLachlan 10. Conclusions: A Growing Sense of Urgency Graham Chapman and Kathleen Baker List of Contributors

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Graham Chapman

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`This excellent survey of geographical changes ... will appeal not only to the university student who needs expert guidance on the literature on the region, but also to the A-level teacher, brushing up his facts on areas he has not examined for a long time, and to the A-level student, raiding the text for case-study material.' - Geography