The central african republic : the continent's hidden heart.
A small, poor, little-known nation, the Central African Republic has had a troubled history, from the days of slave raids by Arab-speaking peoples from the north, through the bizarre rule of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, to the present military regime. Landlocked and possessing few resources beyond its famed...
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LONDON :
ROUTLEDGE,
2019.
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| Series: | Profiles. Nations of contemporary Africa.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Maps, and Photographs; Acknowledgments; 1 The Physical Setting; A Little-Known Country; Relief; Waterways; Climate and Vegetation; Population and Political Ethnicity; Notes; 2 The Historical Context; From Origins to the End of the Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; The Coming of the Europeans and the Colonial Era, 1899-1940; World War II and Its Aftermath; Toward Independence with Boganda; Boganda and a Unified Central Africa; The Death of a Dream; Notes.
- 3 The Central African PolityBoganda to Dacko; Government Under Dacko; The Bokassa Interlude; Dacko Encore; Kolingba Regime; Notes; 4 Society and Change; Historical Ethnicity; The Demographic Timebomb; Women and Social Change; Education; The Arts; Notes; 5 Economic and Political Dependence; Economics; Political Economy Under Colonialism; Postindependence Political Economy; Planning and Economic Aid; Specific Areas of Concern; Other Economic Activities; Tourism; Future Prospects; Notes; 6 The Central African Republic and the World; French Presence; The Role of the United States.
- Russian and Chinese InterestsIsrael; Francophone African Relations; Libya and Chad; Ties with Other African Nations; At the United Nations and Elsewhere; Notes; 7 Central Africa and the Future; Military Rule: How Long?; Dilemmas of State Building; Some Possible Scenarios; Notes; Selected Bibliography; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Index.