ABSTRACT

This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced to enhance the book's usability. Organizations listed include contact details wherever possible.

Key features
* Provides authoritative up-to-date information on a region that is changing fast, and for which reliable data is often hard to locate
* Each country's recent history and economy are described and analyzed in separate essays.

Entries include:
Apartheid, Central African Republic, Christianity, Colonialism, Development Aid, Genocide, Great Lakes, International Monetary Fund, Languages, Nelson Mandela, Mining, Tobacco, Uganda.

Countries covered in this voume include:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spanish North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla), Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

chapter 1|51 pages

A

entry |1 pages

Abacha, Gen. Sani

entry |1 pages

Abbas, Ferhat

entry |2 pages

Abboud, Gen. Ibrahim

entry |1 pages

Abdel Aziz, Muhammad

entry |1 pages

Abubakir, Gen. Abdulsalami

entry |1 pages

Abyssinia

entry |1 pages

Acção Democrática Independente (ADI— Independent Democratic Action)

entry |1 pages

Acción Democrática y Progresista (ADP— Democratic and Progressive Action)

entry |1 pages

Acheampong, Col I.K.

entry |1 pages

ACP—see African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

entry |1 pages

Action tchadienne pour 1'unité et le socialisme (ACTUS—Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism)

entry |1 pages

Adja

entry |1 pages

Afewerki, Issaias

entry |3 pages

Africa

entry |1 pages

Africa Reinsurance Corporation (ARC)

entry |1 pages

African Action Plan

entry |1 pages

African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP)

entry |1 pages

African Christian Democratic Party

entry |1 pages

African crisis

entry |2 pages

African Development Bank (ADB)

entry |1 pages

African Development Fund (ADF)

entry |1 pages

African Export-Import Bank

entry |1 pages

African Growth and Opportunity Act

entry |1 pages

African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDP)

entry |1 pages

African Mission in Burundi (AMIB)

entry |1 pages

African Muslims

entry |1 pages

African National Congress (ANC)

entry |1 pages

African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

entry |1 pages

African socialism

entry |2 pages

African stock exchange(s)

entry |2 pages

African Union (AU)

entry |1 pages

Afrikaans

entry |1 pages

Afrikaanse Weerstandsbeweging (AWB— Afrikaner Resistance Movement)

entry |1 pages

Afrikaners

entry |1 pages

Afrique équatoriale française (French Equatorial Africa)

entry |1 pages

Agence française de développement (AFD—French Development Agency)

entry |1 pages

Agriculture

entry |1 pages

Aguiyi-Aronsi, Gen. Johnson

entry |1 pages

Ahidjo, Ahmadou

entry |1 pages

Ahmed, Hocine Aït

entry |2 pages

Aid and development

entry |1 pages

Aideed, Gen.

entry |1 pages

Aix-les-Bains Conference

entry |1 pages

Akan

entry |1 pages

Akintola, Chief

entry |1 pages

Akuffo, Gen. F.W.K.

entry |1 pages

Alawite dynasty

entry |1 pages

Alexandria

entry |4 pages

Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of

entry |1 pages

Algeria, economy

entry |1 pages

Aliança Democrática de Angola (Democratic Alliance of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Aliança Democrática para a Mudança (ADM—Democratic Alliance for Change)

entry |1 pages

Alliance burundaise-africaine pour le salut (ABASA—BurundiAfrican Alliance for Salvation)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour le Congo (AC—Alliance for the Congo)

entry |1 pages

Alliance congolaise pour l'ouverture, le salut et la solidarité (ACOSS—Congolese Alliance for Openness, Salvation and Solidarity)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour la démocratie et le développement (ADD—Alliance for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour la démocratie et la fédération-Rassemblement démocratique africain (ADF-RDA—Alliance for Democracy and Federation-African Democratic Rally)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour la démocratie et le progrès (Alliance for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Alliance démocratique pour le progrès du Cameroun (ADPC—Cameroon Democratic Alliance for Progress)

entry |1 pages

Alliance étoile (AE—Star Alliance)

entry |1 pages

Alliance des forces progressistes (AFP— Alliance of Progressive Forces)

entry |1 pages

Alliance impulsion pour le progrès et la démocratie (AIPD—Impulse for Progress and Democracy Alliance)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour la justice and la démocratie (AJD—Alliance for Justice and Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour une Mauritanie démocratique (AMD—Alliance for a Democratic Mauritania)

entry |1 pages

Alliance nationale pour la démocratie et le développement (ANDD—National Alliance for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

Alliance nationale pour les droits et le développement économique (ANADDE— National Alliance for Rights and Economic Development)

entry |1 pages

Alliance nationale républicaine (ANR— National Republican Alliance)

entry |1 pages

Alliance nigérienne pour la democratic et le progrès (ANDP—Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour le progrès et l'émancipation des dépossédés (APED—Alliance for Progress and the Emancipation of the Dispossessed)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour le progrès et la liberté (APL—Alliance for Progress and Freedom)

entry |1 pages

Alliance pour le redressement du Cameroun (ARC—Alliance for the Recovery of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Alliance suru (Suru Alliance)

entry |1 pages

Alliance tchadienne pour la démocratie et le développement (ATDD—Chadian Alliance for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

De Almeida, Damião Vaz

entry |2 pages

Aluminium and bauxite

entry |1 pages

Amharic

entry |2 pages

Amin, Idi

entry |1 pages

de Andrade, Mário

entry |1 pages

Anglo-American Corporation

entry |1 pages

AngloGold Ashanti

entry |4 pages

Angola, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Angola, economy

entry |1 pages

Angolan Democratic Coalition

entry |1 pages

AngloGold

entry |1 pages

Anjouan—see Nzwani, Ankrah, Col Joseph

entry |2 pages

Annan, Kofi

entry |1 pages

Ansarollah Group

entry |2 pages

Apartheid

entry |1 pages

Aptidon, Hassan Gouled

entry |1 pages

Arab African International Bank

entry |2 pages

Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA)

entry |1 pages

Arab Common Market

entry |1 pages

Arab Economic Unity Council

entry |2 pages

Arab Free Trade Zone (AFTZ)

entry |1 pages

Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD)

entry |1 pages

Arab International Bank

entry |2 pages

Arab League (League of Arab States)

entry |1 pages

Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)

entry |2 pages

Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)

entry |1 pages

Arab socialism

entry |1 pages

Arab West

entry |1 pages

Arabic

entry |2 pages

Arab(s)

entry |1 pages

Armée islamique du salut (AIS—Islamic Salvation Army)

entry |1 pages

Arusha Declaration

entry |1 pages

Asari, Mujahid Dokubo

entry |2 pages

Asante—see Ashanti, Ascension Island

entry |1 pages

Ashanti (Asante)

entry |1 pages

Ashigga Party

entry |2 pages

Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI)

entry |1 pages

Association sociale-démocrate du Cameroun (ASDC—Social Democrat Association of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Assoumani, Col Azali

entry |1 pages

AV-Intware (Alliance of the Brave)

entry |1 pages

Awololo, Chief Obafemi

entry |1 pages

Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO)

entry |2 pages

Al-Azhari, Ismail

chapter 2|48 pages

B

entry |1 pages

Ba'athism

entry |1 pages

Ba'athists (Mauritania)

entry |1 pages

Babangida, Gen. Ibrahim

entry |1 pages

Bakassi Peninsula

entry |1 pages

Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa

entry |1 pages

Baluba

entry |1 pages

Balubakat

entry |1 pages

Bambara

entry |1 pages

Banana, Rev. Canaan

entry |1 pages

Banda, Dr Hastings Kamuzu

entry |2 pages

Bandung Conference (1955)

entry |1 pages

Banque Centrale des Comores

entry |1 pages

Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'ouest (BCEAO—Central Bank of West African States)

entry |1 pages

Banque Centrale Populaire (Crédit Populaire du Maroc)

entry |1 pages

Banque Commerciale du Maroc SA (BCM)

entry |1 pages

Banque de développement des états de l'Afrique centrale (BDEAC—Development Bank of Central African States)

entry |1 pages

Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale (BEAC—Bank of the Central African States)

entry |1 pages

Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur (BMCE)

entry |1 pages

Banque Misr

entry |1 pages

Banque Ouest-Africaine de Développement (BOAD)

entry |2 pages

Banyamulenge

entry |1 pages

Baoule

entry |1 pages

Al-Baraka

entry |2 pages

Al-Barakaat

entry |1 pages

Bardo Treaty

entry |2 pages

al-Bashir, Lt-Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad

entry |1 pages

Basutoland

entry |1 pages

Bechuanaland

entry |1 pages

Bechuanaland Democratic Party (BDP— see also Botswana Democratic Party)

entry |1 pages

Bechuanaland People's Party (BPP)

entry |1 pages

Bedouin(s)

entry |1 pages

Belhadj, Ali (Sheikh)

entry |1 pages

Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine

entry |1 pages

Ben Bella, Ahmed

entry |3 pages

Benin, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Benin, economy

entry |1 pages

Benflis, Ali

entry |2 pages

Berber(s)

entry |1 pages

Bérenger, Paul

entry |1 pages

Berg Report

entry |1 pages

Berlin West Africa Conference

entry |1 pages

Bevin-Sforza Plan

entry |1 pages

Biafra

entry |1 pages

Biafra War

entry |1 pages

Biko, Stephen Bantu

entry |1 pages

Bin Laden, Osama

entry |1 pages

Bioko

entry |1 pages

Biya, Paul

entry |2 pages

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)

entry |1 pages

Boer(s)

entry |1 pages

Boer War

entry |2 pages

Bokassa, Col Jean-Bédel

entry |1 pages

Bongo Ondimba, Omar (Albert-Bernard)

entry |1 pages

Borders

entry |1 pages

Botha, P.W.

entry |2 pages

Botwsana, Republic of

entry |1 pages

Botswana, economy

entry |1 pages

Botswana Alliance Movement (BAM)

entry |1 pages

Botswana Congress Party (BCP)

entry |2 pages

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)

entry |1 pages

Botswana Independence Party (BIP)

entry |1 pages

Botswana Labour Party

entry |1 pages

Botswana National Front (BNF)

entry |1 pages

Botswana People's Party (BPP)

entry |1 pages

Botswana Progressive Union

entry |1 pages

Botswana Workers' Front

entry |1 pages

Boudiaf, Mohammed

entry |1 pages

Ould Boulkheir, Messaoud

entry |1 pages

Boumedienne, Houari

entry |1 pages

Bourguiba, Habib

entry |1 pages

Bouteflika, Abdelaziz

entry |1 pages

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

entry |2 pages

Bozizé, Gen. François

entry |1 pages

Brazzaville Group

entry |1 pages

Bread riots

entry |1 pages

Brenthurst Group

entry |1 pages

Bretton Woods Institutions

entry |2 pages

British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)

entry |1 pages

Broederbond (Brotherhood)

entry |1 pages

‘Buffalo Battalion’

entry |2 pages

Buhari, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu

entry |4 pages

Burkina Faso

entry |2 pages

Burkina Faso, economy

entry |6 pages

Burundi, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Burundi, economy

entry |2 pages

Bushmen

entry |1 pages

Busia, Dr Kofi A.

chapter 3|64 pages

C

entry |1 pages

Cabral, Amílcar

entry |1 pages

Cabral, Luís

entry |4 pages

Cameroon, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Cameroon, economy

entry |1 pages

Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM)

entry |1 pages

Compaoré, Blaise

entry |1 pages

Cape Colony

entry |1 pages

Cape of Good Hope

entry |3 pages

Cape Verde, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Cape Verde, economy

entry |1 pages

Casablanca Group

entry |1 pages

Casamance

entry |1 pages

Cell phones

entry |1 pages

Cen-Sad

entry |1 pages

Central African Federation

entry |4 pages

Central African Republic

entry |2 pages

Central African Republic, economy

entry |1 pages

Ceuta

entry |4 pages

CFA—see Communauté financière africaine Chad, Republic of

entry |1 pages

Chadli, Benjedid

entry |1 pages

Chagga

entry |1 pages

Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM— Revolutionary Party)

entry |1 pages

Chettiar, Angidi Varriah

entry |1 pages

Chiluba, Frederick

entry |2 pages

Chromium

entry |1 pages

CHUMA (Islands' Fraternity and Unity Party)

entry |2 pages

Civil war

entry |1 pages

Club 2002

entry |1 pages

Coalition des forces démocratiques (CFD— Coalition of Democratic Forces)

entry |1 pages

Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD)

entry |2 pages

Cobalt

entry |2 pages

Cocoa

entry |1 pages

Coffee

entry |2 pages

Collapsed states

entry |1 pages

Colonialism

entry |1 pages

Comissão de Libertação de São Tomé e Príncipe (CLSTP—Liberation Committee of São Tomé and Príncipe)

entry |1 pages

Comité politique d'action et de liaison (CPAL—Political Committee of Action and Liaison)

entry |2 pages

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

entry |2 pages

Commonwealth

entry |1 pages

Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC)

entry |2 pages

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs)

entry |1 pages

Communauté économique de l'Afrique de l'ouest (CEAO—Economic Community of West Africa)

entry |1 pages

Communauté économique des états de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC—Economic Community of Central African States)

entry |1 pages

Communauté économique et monétaire de l'Afrique centrale (CEMAC—Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa)

entry |1 pages

Communauté financière africaine

entry |4 pages

Comoros, Union of the

entry |2 pages

Comoros, economy

entry |1 pages

Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP—Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries)

entry |1 pages

Conakat

entry |1 pages

Confédération générale des entreprises marocaines (CGEM)

entry |1 pages

Confederation of South African Trades Unions (COSATU)

entry |1 pages

Conflict

entry |1 pages

Conflict resolution

entry |4 pages

Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

entry |2 pages

Democratic Republic of the Congo, economy

entry |4 pages

Congo (Republic of the Congo)

entry |2 pages

Republic of the Congo, economy

entry |1 pages

Congo Free State

entry |1 pages

Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP—Congress for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Congrès national algérien (Algerian National Congress)

entry |1 pages

Congrès national ittihadi (CNI—National Ittihadi Congress)

entry |1 pages

Congrès pan-africain du Cameroun (CPC—Pan-African Congress of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Congress of the People

entry |1 pages

Conseil démocratique des partis politiques de l'opposition (CODEPO—Democratic Congress of the Political Parties of the Opposition)

entry |1 pages

Conseil démocratique révolutionnaire (CDR—Revolutionary Democratic Council)

entry |1 pages

Conseil de l'entente (Entente Council)

entry |1 pages

Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD—National Council for the Defence of Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Conté, Gen. Lansana

entry |1 pages

Convenção Nacional Democrata de Angola (CNDA—National Democrat Convention of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Convention pour la démocratie et la fédération (CDF—Convention for Democracy and Federation)

entry |1 pages

Convention pour la démocratie et le fédéralisme (CDF—Convention for Democracy and Federalism)

entry |1 pages

Convention pour la démocratie et le salut (CODESA—Convention for Democracy and Salvation)

entry |1 pages

Convention démocratique et sociale (CDS—Democratic and Social Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convention libérale (CL—Liberal Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convention nationale (CN—National Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convention nationale des démocrates progressistes (CNDP—National Convention of Progressive Democrats)

entry |1 pages

Convention nationale démocratique et sociale (CNDS—National Democratic and Social Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convention nationale pour la République et la solidarité (CNRS—National Convention for the Republic and Solidarity)

entry |1 pages

Convention pan-africaine sankariste (CPS—Pan-African Sankarist Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convention populaire de la résistance (CPR—Popular Resistance Convention)

entry |1 pages

Convergence nationale pour la paix et la réconciliation (CNPR—National Convergence for Peace and Reconciliation)

entry |1 pages

Convergência para la Democracia Social (CPDS—Convergence for Social Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Coordination des mouvements armés et partis politiques de l'opposition (CMAP—Co-ordination of Armed Movements and Opposition Political Parties)

entry |1 pages

Copper

entry |2 pages

Corruption

entry |1 pages

da Costa, Dr Manuel Pinto

entry |6 pages

Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Côte d'Ivoire, economy

entry |1 pages

Cotonou Agreement

entry |1 pages

Cotton

entry |1 pages

Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU)

chapter 4|13 pages

D

entry |1 pages

Ould Daddah, Mokhtar

entry |1 pages

Dahomey—see also Benin

entry |1 pages

Dakar

entry |1 pages

Darfur

entry |1 pages

De Beers

entry |2 pages

Debt

entry |1 pages

Debt relief

entry |1 pages

Deby, Gen. Idriss

entry |1 pages

Declaration of Conakry

entry |1 pages

De Klerk, F.W.

entry |2 pages

Democracy

entry |1 pages

Democratic Alliance (DA)

entry |1 pages

Democratic Party (DP)

entry |1 pages

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)

entry |1 pages

The Dergue (Committee)

entry |1 pages

Destour Party

entry |1 pages

Development aid/assistance

entry |2 pages

Devonshire Declaration

entry |1 pages

Diamonds

entry |1 pages

Diouf, Abdou

entry |1 pages

Diola

entry |1 pages

Dioula

entry |1 pages

Direct Path (Assirat al-Moustaquim, also known as Righteous Path)

entry |4 pages

Djibouti, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Djibouti, economy

entry |1 pages

Douala

entry |1 pages

Drought

chapter 5|27 pages

E

entry |1 pages

East Africa

entry |2 pages

East African Community (EAC)

entry |1 pages

East African Customs Union

entry |1 pages

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG): mission to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone

entry |1 pages

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG): first mission to Liberia

entry |1 pages

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG): mission to Sierra Leone

entry |2 pages

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

entry |1 pages

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

entry |1 pages

Economic growth in Africa

entry |1 pages

Education

entry |4 pages

Egypt, Arab Republic of

entry |1 pages

Egypt, economy

entry |1 pages

Egyptian Arab Socialist Party

entry |2 pages

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

entry |1 pages

Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty

entry |2 pages

Energy

entry |1 pages

Equatorial Customs Union

entry |5 pages

Equatorial Guinea

entry |2 pages

Equatorial Guinea, economy

entry |4 pages

Eritrea

entry |2 pages

Eritrea, economy

entry |4 pages

Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of

entry |2 pages

Ethiopia, economy

entry |1 pages

Ethnic group(s) and ethnicity

entry |1 pages

Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area (EMEA)

entry |2 pages

Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP)

entry |1 pages

European Union (EU)

entry |1 pages

European Union-Mauritania

entry |1 pages

Ewe

entry |1 pages

Exports

chapter 6|21 pages

F

entry |1 pages

Failed states

entry |2 pages

Famine

entry |1 pages

Fanti

entry |1 pages

Farouk

entry |1 pages

Fédération action pour la République (FAR—Action Federation for the Republic)

entry |1 pages

Fernando Póo

entry |1 pages

Fighting Islamic Group (FIG—al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya)

entry |1 pages

Fisheries

entry |1 pages

Fon

entry |1 pages

Forces pour l'action républicaine (FAR—Forces for Republican Action)

entry |1 pages

Forces démocratiques unies (FDU—United Democratic Forces)

entry |1 pages

Forces nationales de libération (FNL—National Liberation Forces)

entry |1 pages

Forces pour le salut du Congo (FSC—Forces for the Salvation of Congo)

entry |1 pages

Forum civique (FC—Civic Forum)

entry |1 pages

Forum démocratique (FODE—Democratic Forum)

entry |1 pages

Forum démocratique pour la modernité (FODEM—Democratic Forum for Modernity)

entry |1 pages

Forum pour le redressement national (FRN—Forum for National Recovery)

entry |2 pages

Franc Zone

entry |1 pages

Francophone Africa

entry |2 pages

Free Officers' Movement

entry |1 pages

Freedom Charter

entry |1 pages

Freedom Front

entry |1 pages

French Guinea

entry |1 pages

French Protectorate of Morocco

entry |1 pages

French West Africa

entry |1 pages

Frente Democrata Cristã (FDC—Christian Democrat Front)

entry |1 pages

Frente de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC—Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front)

entry |2 pages

Frente de Libertação de Mozambique (Frelimo—Mozambique Liberation Front)

entry |1 pages

Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (FNLA)

entry |2 pages

Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y Río de Oro (Frente POLISARIO—Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro)

entry |1 pages

Front d'action pour le renouveau, la démocratic et le déeveloppement-Alafia (FARD-Alafia—Action Front for Renewal, Democracy and Development-Alafia)

entry |1 pages

Front des alliés pour le changement (FAC—Allies' Front for Change)

entry |1 pages

Front pour la démocratic au Burundi (FRODEBU—Front for Democracy in Burundi)

entry |1 pages

Front démocratique (FD—Democratic Front)

entry |1 pages

Front démocratique (FD—Democratic Front)

entry |1 pages

Front démocratique et patriotique (FDP—Democratic Patriotic Front)

entry |1 pages

Front des forces démocratiques (FFD—Front of Democratic Forces)

entry |1 pages

Front des forces sociales (FFS—Social Forces Front)

entry |1 pages

Front des forces socialistes (FFS—Socialist Forces Front)

entry |4 pages

Front islamique du salut (FIS—Islamic Salvation Front)

entry |1 pages

Front de libération nationale (FLN—National Liberation Front)

entry |1 pages

Front de libération nationale du TchadConseil provisoire de la révolution (FROLINAT-CPR—National Liberation Front of Chad-Provisional Council of the Revolution)

entry |1 pages

Front national pour la justice (FNJ—National Front for Justice)

entry |1 pages

Front national du Tchad renové (FNTR—National Front of Chad Renewed)

entry |1 pages

Front patriotique pour le changement (FPC—Patriotic Front for Change)

entry |1 pages

Front patriotique pour le progrès (FPP—Patriotic Front for Progress)

entry |1 pages

Fru Ndi, John

entry |1 pages

Fuad, King

entry |1 pages

Fuerza Democráta Republicana (FDR—Democratic Republican Force)

entry |1 pages

Fulani

entry |1 pages

Fundamentalism

chapter 7|33 pages

G

entry |1 pages

G8

entry |1 pages

G11

entry |1 pages

G77

entry |3 pages

Gabon

entry |3 pages

Gabon, economy

entry |1 pages

Galaydh, Ali Khalif

entry |1 pages

Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)

entry |4 pages

The Gambia, Republic of

entry |2 pages

The Gambia, economy

entry |2 pages

Garang, John

entry |1 pages

Gbagbo, Laurent

entry |1 pages

Gelleh, Ismael Omar

entry |2 pages

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

entry |2 pages

Genocide

entry |1 pages

German East Africa

entry |1 pages

Al-Ghad

entry |3 pages

Ghana, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Ghana, economy

entry |1 pages

Ghana-Guinea Union

entry |1 pages

Gleneagles Agreement

entry |1 pages

Globalization

entry |1 pages

Gold

entry |2 pages

Gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

entry |1 pages

Gold in South Africa

entry |2 pages

Gold Coast

entry |1 pages

Gold Coast Colony

entry |1 pages

Government, change of

entry |2 pages

Gowon, Col Yakubu

entry |1 pages

Green Party

entry |2 pages

Groupe islamique armé (GIA—Armed Islamic Group)

entry |1 pages

Groupe islamique des combatants marocains (GICM—Islamic Group of Moroccan Combatants)

entry |1 pages

Groupe salafiste pour la prédication et le combat (GSPC—Salafist Group for Call and Combat)

entry |1 pages

Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR)

entry |4 pages

Guinea, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Guinea, economy

entry |4 pages

Guinea-Bissau, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Guinea-Bissau, economy

chapter 8|7 pages

H

entry |1 pages

Habré, Hissène

entry |1 pages

Quld Haidalla, Lt-Col Khouna

entry |1 pages

Haile Selassie

entry |1 pages

Hamas (Algeria)

entry |1 pages

Hamrouche, Mouloud

entry |1 pages

Hassan II (Moulay Hassan Muhammadi ibn Yussuf)

entry |1 pages

Hausa

entry |1 pages

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative

entry |3 pages

HIV/AIDS in Africa

entry |1 pages

Houphouët-Boigny, Dr Félix

entry |2 pages

Hutu(s)

chapter 9|11 pages

I

entry |1 pages

Ibadism

entry |1 pages

Ibo(s)

entry |1 pages

Idris I, Said Mohammad

entry |1 pages

Imperialism

entry |1 pages

Independence

entry |1 pages

Indian National Congress (INC)

entry |1 pages

Informal economy

entry |1 pages

Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)

entry |2 pages

Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

entry |1 pages

Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD)

entry |2 pages

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development—see World Bank International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

entry |1 pages

International financial institutions

entry |2 pages

International financing facility

entry |1 pages

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

entry |1 pages

Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF)

entry |1 pages

Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA)

entry |1 pages

Al-Irshad wa'l Islah (Movement for Guidance and Reform)

entry |1 pages

Islam

entry |1 pages

Islamic banking

entry |2 pages

Islamic Development Bank (IDB)

entry |1 pages

Islamic fundamentalism

entry |1 pages

Islamic government

entry |1 pages

Islamic Group (al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya)

entry |1 pages

Islamic Jihad (al-Jihad al-Islami)

entry |1 pages

Islamic Martyrs Movement (IMM)

entry |1 pages

Issa(s)

entry |1 pages

Istiqlal

chapter 10|2 pages

J

entry |1 pages

Al-Jabha al-Islamiyya li-Inqadh—see Front islamique du salut

entry |1 pages

Jam'iyyat at-Takfir wa'l-Hijra (Society of Excommunication and Emigration)

entry |2 pages

Jammeh, Col (retd) Alhaji Yahya A.J.J.

entry |1 pages

Jawara, Dawda Kairaba

entry |1 pages

Jugnauth, Sir Anerood

chapter 11|13 pages

K

entry |1 pages

Kabbah, Alhaji Ahmed Tejan

entry |2 pages

Kabila, Maj.-Gen. Joseph

entry |1 pages

Kabila, Laurent-Désiré

entry |1 pages

Kagame, Maj.-Gen. Paul

entry |1 pages

Kamerun

entry |1 pages

Kasavubu, Joseph

entry |1 pages

Katanga

entry |1 pages

Katibat el-Ahoual

entry |1 pages

Kaunda, Kenneth

entry |1 pages

Keita, Modibo

entry |3 pages

Kenya, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Kenya, economy

entry |1 pages

Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU)

entry |1 pages

Kenya African National Union (KANU)

entry |1 pages

Kenya African Union (KAU)

entry |1 pages

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB)

entry |1 pages

Kenya People's Union (KPU)

entry |1 pages

Kenyatta, Jomo

entry |1 pages

Kérékou, Mathieu

entry |2 pages

Khartoum Declaration

entry |1 pages

Kibaki, Mwai

entry |1 pages

Kiir, Salva

entry |1 pages

Kikuyu

entry |1 pages

Kufuor, John Agyekum

entry |1 pages

Kwa Zulu

chapter 12|17 pages

L

entry |1 pages

Lagos Plan of Action

entry |1 pages

Lancaster House Agreement

entry |2 pages

Leon, Anthony (Tony)

entry |3 pages

Lesotho, Kingdom of

entry |2 pages

Lesotho, economy

entry |3 pages

Liberia, Republic of

entry |1 pages

Liberia, economy

entry |2 pages

Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

entry |1 pages

Libya, economy

entry |1 pages

Libyan Change and Reform Movement

entry |1 pages

Libyan Conservatives' Party

entry |1 pages

Libyan Constitutional Grouping

entry |1 pages

Libyan Democratic Authority

entry |1 pages

Libyan Democratic Conference

entry |1 pages

Libyan Democratic Movement

entry |1 pages

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah alMuqatilah bi-Libya)

entry |1 pages

Ligue islamique de la daawa et le djihad (LIDD—Islamic League of Call and Jihad)

entry |2 pages

Locusts

entry |1 pages

Lockerbie

entry |2 pages

Lomé Convention(s)

entry |1 pages

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

entry |1 pages

Ould Louly, Lt-Col Mohammed Mahmoud

entry |1 pages

Lumumba, Patrice

entry |1 pages

Luo

entry |1 pages

Lusaka Agreement

entry |1 pages

Lusaka Protocol

chapter 13|65 pages

M

entry |1 pages

Macroeconomic Research Group (MERG)

entry |4 pages

Madagascar, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Madagascar, economy

entry |1 pages

Madani, Abbasi

entry |2 pages

Maghreb

entry |1 pages

Al-Mahdi, Sadiq

entry |1 pages

Malaria

entry |3 pages

Malawi, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Malawi, economy

entry |3 pages

Mali, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Mali, economy

entry |2 pages

Malloum, Gen. Félix

entry |1 pages

Mande

entry |3 pages

Mandela, Nelson

entry |1 pages

Mandinke

entry |1 pages

Mano River Union (MRU)

entry |1 pages

Margai, Sir Albert

entry |1 pages

Margai, Sir Milton

entry |2 pages

Mars 23 (23 March)

entry |1 pages

Marxism

entry |1 pages

Marxist-Leninism

entry |1 pages

Masai

entry |1 pages

Mashreq

entry |1 pages

Mau Mau

entry |2 pages

Mauritanian African Liberation Forces (MALF)

entry |5 pages

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

entry |1 pages

Mauritania, economy

entry |3 pages

Mauritius, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Mauritius, economy

entry |2 pages

Mayotte

entry |1 pages

Mayotte, economy

entry |1 pages

M'Ba, Léon

entry |2 pages

Mbeki, Thabo

entry |1 pages

Mediterranean Free Trade Area

entry |1 pages

Melilla

entry |1 pages

Mende

entry |2 pages

De Menezes, Fradique

entry |1 pages

Middle Congo

entry |2 pages

Migration

entry |1 pages

Military

entry |1 pages

Military expenditure

entry |1 pages

Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)

entry |1 pages

Millennium Challenge Corporation

entry |2 pages

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

entry |1 pages

Mineral production

entry |2 pages

Minurso

entry |1 pages

Mlambo-Ngcuka, Phumzile

entry |2 pages

Mobutu, Joseph-Désiré (Mobutu Sese Seko)

entry |1 pages

Modise, Joe

entry |1 pages

Mohammed VI, King

entry |2 pages

Moi, Daniel arap

entry |1 pages

Momoh, Maj.-Gen. Joseph

entry |1 pages

Monrovia Group

entry |1 pages

Mont Fleur scenarios

entry |4 pages

Morocco, Kingdom of

entry |1 pages

Morocco, economy

entry |2 pages

Mosisili, Bethuel Pakalitha

entry |1 pages

Moto, Severe

entry |1 pages

Mouvement africain pour la democratic et le progrès (MADEP—African Movement for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement africain pour la nouvelle indépendance et la democratic (MANIDEM—African Movement for New Independence and Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement algérien pour la justice et le développement (MAJD)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement des citoyens pour la République (MCR—Citizens' Movement for the Republic)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement congolais pour la démocratic et le développement intégral (MCDDI—Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la défense de la République (MDR—Movement for the Defence of the Republic)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement des démocrates socialistes (MDS—Movement of Socialist Democrats)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et la citoyenneté (MDC—Movement for Democracy and Citizenship)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et le développement (MOD—Movement for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et le développement (MOD—Movement for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratie, l'indépendance et le progrès social (MDIPS—Movement for Democracy, Independence and Social Progress)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et la justice au Tchad (MDJT—Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et le progrès (MDP—Movement for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la démocratic et le progrès (MDP—Movement for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement démocratique et social (MDS—Democratic and Social Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement démocratique et social (Democratic and Social Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement de l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire (MESAN—Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la jeunesse du Cameroun (MLJC—Movement for the Youth of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la libération et le développement du Cameroun (MLDC—Movement for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la libération du Congo (MLC—Movement for the Liberation of the Congo)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la libération du peuple centrafricain (MLPC—Liberation Movement of the Central African People)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour la liberté

entry |1 pages

Mouvement national populaire (MNP—National Popular Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement national pour une société de développement-Nassara (MNSD-Nassara—National Movement for a Development Society-Nassara)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement patriotique du salut (MPS—Patriotic Salvation Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement populaire (MP—Popular Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement populaire anjouanais (MPA—Popular Movement of Anjouan)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement populaire pour la démocratic (MPD—Popular Movement for Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement populaire de la révolution (MPR—Popular Movement of the Revolution)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement de la réforme nationale (MRN—Movement of National Reform)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement de la renaissance islamique/Harakat an-Nahda al-Islamiyya (MRI—Movement of the Islamic Renaissance)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement de la résistance pour la réhabilitation du citoyen (MRCRurenzangemero—Resistance Movement for the Rehabilitation of the Citizen)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement social pour la nouvelle démocratic (MSND—Social Movement for New Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour le socialisme et la démocratic (MSB—Movement for Socialism and Democracy)

entry |2 pages

Mouvement de la tendance islamique (MTI—Islamic Tendency Movement)

entry |1 pages

Mouvement pour l'unité et la République (MUR—Movement for Unity and the Republic)

entry |2 pages

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)

entry |1 pages

Movement of Patriotic Libyans

entry |1 pages

Movimento para a Democracia (MPD—Movement for Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Movimento Democrático Força da Mudança-Partido Liberal (MDFM-PL—Force for Change Democratic Movement-Liberal Party)

entry |1 pages

Movimento de Libertação de São Tomé e Príncipe—Partido Social Democrata (MLSTP—PSD, Liberation Movement of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA—Popular Liberation Movement of Angola)

entry |3 pages

Mozambique, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Mozambique, economy

entry |2 pages

Mubarak, Hosni Muhammad Said

entry |3 pages

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

entry |1 pages

Muhammed, Gen. Murtala Ramat

entry |1 pages

Muluzi, (Elson) Bakili

entry |2 pages

Museveni, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta

entry |1 pages

Muslim Brotherhood

entry |1 pages

Mwanawasa, Levy Patrick

chapter 14|28 pages

N

entry |1 pages

An-Nahda (Renaissance Movement)

entry |1 pages

An-Nahda (Renaissance Party)

entry |4 pages

Namibia, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Namibia, economy

entry |2 pages

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

entry |1 pages

Nasserism

entry |1 pages

Nasserist Party

entry |1 pages

National Congress

entry |1 pages

National Congress for Popular Forces

entry |1 pages

National Democratic Party (NDP—Hizb alDimuqratti al-Wattaniyya)

entry |1 pages

National Entente Movement (MEN)

entry |1 pages

National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL)

entry |1 pages

National Islamic Front (NIF)

entry |1 pages

National Pact (Tunisia)

entry |1 pages

National Party (NP)

entry |2 pages

National Progressive Unionist Group or National Union Progressive Party (Egypt—Hizb at-Tagamaa al-Watani at-Taqaddam al-Wahdawi)

entry |1 pages

National Reform Movement (MRN)

entry |1 pages

National Renewal Party (PRA)

entry |1 pages

National Salvation Junta

entry |1 pages

National Union Movement

entry |1 pages

Nationalism

entry |1 pages

Nationalist Party

entry |1 pages

Natural gas

entry |1 pages

Ndayizeye, Maj. Domitien

entry |1 pages

Ndebele

entry |1 pages

Neguib, Muhammad

entry |1 pages

Neo-colonialism

entry |2 pages

Neo-Destour Party

entry |1 pages

Neto, Dr Agostinho

entry |1 pages

New African Initiative—see New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) New National Party (NNP)

entry |2 pages

New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

entry |1 pages

New Wafd Party (Hizb al-Wafd al-Jadid)

entry |1 pages

Nguema Mbasogo, Gen. (Teodoro) Obiang

entry |3 pages

Niger, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Niger, economy

entry |3 pages

Nigeria, Federal Republic of

entry |2 pages

Nigeria, economy

entry |1 pages

Nimeri, Gaafar Muhammad

entry |1 pages

Nkomo, Joshua

entry |2 pages

Nkrumah, Kwame

entry |1 pages

Non-aligned Movement (NAM)

entry |1 pages

North Africa

entry |1 pages

Nour, Ayman

entry |1 pages

Nouvelle convention (NC)

entry |1 pages

Nujo ma, Dr Samuel Daniel

entry |1 pages

Nyasaland

entry |1 pages

Nyerere, Julius

entry |2 pages

Nzwani

chapter 15|7 pages

O

entry |1 pages

Obasanjo, Gen. (retd) Olusegun

entry |2 pages

Obote, Milton

entry |1 pages

Odinga, Oginga

entry |1 pages

Offman, Karl

entry |1 pages

Ogoni

entry |1 pages

Oil

entry |1 pages

Olympio, Sylvanus

entry |2 pages

Operation Artemis

entry |1 pages

Operation Licorne

entry |1 pages

Operation Murabambatsvina

entry |1 pages

Operation Palliser

entry |1 pages

Orange Free State

entry |1 pages

Organisation commune Africaine et mauricienne (OCAM—Common African and Mauritian Organization)

entry |1 pages

Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Senegal (Organization for the Exploitation of the Senegal River)

entry |1 pages

Organization of African Unity (OAU)

entry |1 pages

Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)

entry |1 pages

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

entry |1 pages

Oromia

entry |1 pages

Oromo

entry |1 pages

Oubangui Chari

entry |1 pages

Ould Daddah, Mokhtar—see Daddah

chapter 16|21 pages

P

entry |1 pages

Pagalu

entry |1 pages

Pamscad

entry |1 pages

Pan-African Conference

entry |1 pages

Pan-African Parliament

entry |1 pages

Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)

entry |1 pages

Parti africain de développement (PAD—African Development Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti africain de l'indépendance (PAI—African Independence Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès (PCDP—Comoros Party for Democracy and Progress)

entry |2 pages

Parti congolais du travail (PCT—Congolese Labour Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti démocrate et social Chrétien (PDSC—Christian Social Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti des démocrates camerounais (PDC—Party of Cameroon Democrats)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour la démocratie et le progrès-Parti socialiste (PDP-PS—Party for Democracy and Progress-Socialist Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour la démocratie et la réconciliation (Party for Democracy and Reconciliation)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme (PDS—Party for Democracy and Socialism)

entry |1 pages

Parti démocratique gabonais (PDG—Gabonese Democratic Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti gabonais du progrès (PGP—Gabonese Progress Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti indépendant des travailleurs (PIT—Independent Workers' Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti liberal (PL—Liberal Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti libéral-démocrate (PLD—Liberal Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti libéral-démocrate (PLD—Liberal Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti de libération du peuple Hutu (PALIPEHUTU—Liberation Party of the Hutu People)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour la liberté et le développement (PLD—Party for Freedom and Development)

entry |1 pages

Parti nigérien pour la démocratic et le socialisme (PNDS—Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism)

entry |1 pages

Parti du peuple (PP—People's Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti populaire pour la réconstruction et le développement (PPRD—Popular Party for Reconstruction and Development)

entry |1 pages

Parti populaire pour le développement (PPD—Popular Party for Development)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour la réconciliation du peuple (PRP—People's Reconciliation Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti pour le redressement national (PARENA—Party for National Recovery)

entry |1 pages

Parti de la renaissance nationale (PAREN—Party of National Rebirth)

entry |1 pages

Parti du renouveau démocratique (PRD—Party of Democratic Renewal)

entry |1 pages

Parti républicain des Comores (PRC—Republicain Party of the Comoros)

entry |1 pages

Parti républicain et démocratique social (PRDS—Republican and Social Democratic Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti républicain du peuple camerounais (PRPC—Republican Party of the Cameroon People)

entry |1 pages

Parti du salut (PS—Salvation Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti social démocrate (PSD—Social Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti social-démocrate (PSD—Social Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti socialiste camerounais (PSC—Cameroon Socialist Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti socialiste démocratique (PSD—Democratic Socialist Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti socialiste démocratique du Cameroun (PSDC—Democratic Socialist Party of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Parti socialiste unifié (Unified Socialist Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti des travailleurs (PT—Workers Party)

entry |1 pages

Parti de l'unité nationale (PUN—Party of National Unity)

entry |1 pages

Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde (PAICV—African Independence Party of Cape Verde)

entry |1 pages

Partido de Aliança de Juventude, Operários e Camponêses de Angola (PAJOCA—Angolan Youth, Workers' and Peasants' Alliance Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Angolano Independente (PAI—Angolan Independent Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido da Convergência Democrática (PCD—Party of Democratic Convergence)

entry |1 pages

Partido Democrático Angolano (PDA—Angolan Democratic Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Democrático Liberal de Angola (Liberal Democratic Party of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Partido Democrático para o Progresso—Aliança Nacional de Angola (PDF—ANA, Democratic Party for Progress—National Alliance of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Partido Liberal Democrático (PLD—Liberal Democratic Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Nacional Democrata de Angola (PNDA—National Democrat Party of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Partido Reformador de Angola (PRA—Reform Party of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Partido da Renovação Democrática (PRD—Party of Democratic Renewal)

entry |1 pages

Partido Renovador Democrático (PRD—Democratic Renewal Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Renovador Social (PRS—Social Renewal Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Social Democrata (PSD—Social Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

Partido Social Democrata de Angola (PSDA—Social Democrat Party of Angola)

entry |1 pages

Partido Socialista Democrático (PSD—Democratic Socialist Party)

entry |2 pages

Partido de Trabalho e Solidariedade (PTS—Party of Labour and Solidarity)

entry |1 pages

Peasants' and Workers' Defence Committees

entry |1 pages

Pemba

entry |1 pages

Peul—see Fulani Pires, Pedro de Verona Rodrigues

entry |1 pages

POLISARIO Front—see Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y Río de Oro Popular Unity Party (PUP—Parti de l'unité populaire)

entry |1 pages

Population growth

entry |1 pages

Portuguese Guinea—see Guinea-Bissau Poverty

entry |2 pages

Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)

entry |1 pages

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)

entry |2 pages

Private Military Companies (PMCs)

entry |2 pages

Privatization

entry |1 pages

Progressive Democratic Party

entry |1 pages

Progressive Party

entry |1 pages

Protectionism

entry |1 pages

Pulaar (Pular, Peuhl, Fulani)

entry |1 pages

Puntland

entry |1 pages

Pygmies

chapter 17|1 pages

Q

entry |1 pages

al-Qaddafi, Col Muammar Abu Minyar (1942–)

chapter 18|16 pages

R

entry |1 pages

Ramaphosa, Cyril

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie (RCD—Congolese Rally for Democracy)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie—Mouvement de libération (RCD—ML, Congolese Rally for Democracy—Liberation Movement)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie—National (RCD—N, Congolese Rally for Democracy—National)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique (RCD—Constitutional Democratic Rally)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le développement (RDD—Rally for Democracy and Development)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le développement économique et social (RADDES—Rally for Democracy and Economic and Social Development)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement pour la démocratie et la République (RDR—Rally for Democracy and the Republic)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le panafricanisme (RDP—Rally for Democracy and Pan-Africanism)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le progrès (RDP—Rally for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement démocratique centrafricain (RDC—Central African Democratic Rally)

entry |1 pages

Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC—Democratic Rally of the Cameroon People)

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Rassemblement démocratique du people sans frontières (RDPF—Democratic Rally of the People without Frontiers)

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Rassemblement national des bûcherons (RNB—National Woodcutters' Rally)

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Rassemblement national démocratique (RND—Democratic National Rally)

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Rassemblement national pour le développement (RND—National Rally for Development)

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Rassemblement pour une nouvelle société (RNS—Rally for a New Society)

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Rassemblement pour le peuple du Burundi (RPB—Rally for the People of Burundi)

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Rassemblement du peuple togolais (RPT— Rally of the Togolese People)

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Rassemblement populaire pour la reconstruction de la Centrafrique (RPRC—Popular Rally for the Reconstruction of Central Africa)

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Rawlings, Flight-Lt Jerry

entry |1 pages

Ravalomanana, Marc

entry |2 pages

Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)

entry |1 pages

Refugees

entry |1 pages

La renaissance du Bénin (RB—Rebirth of Benin)

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René, France Albert

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Réunion

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Revolutionary United Front (RUF)—see Sierra Leone, Republic of, History Rhodes, Cecil

entry |1 pages

Rhodesia

entry |1 pages

Río Muni

entry |1 pages

Río de Oro

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Rosa, Henrique Pereira

entry |4 pages

Rwanda (Rwandan Republic)

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Rwanda, economy

entry |2 pages

Rwandan genocide

chapter 19|54 pages

S

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Es-Sadat, Anwar

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Saharan Republic

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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)

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Sahrawis

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Saint Helena

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Salafist Jihad

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Ould Mohammed Salek, Lt-Col Mustapha

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Sama, Koffi

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Sanniquellie Declaration

entry |2 pages

Sankara, Thomas

entry |1 pages

Dos Santos, Fernando da Piedade Dias

entry |1 pages

Dos Santos, José Eduardo

entry |5 pages

São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of

entry |1 pages

São Tomé and Príncipe, economy

entry |1 pages

Savimbi, Dr Jonas

entry |1 pages

Saro-Wiwa, Ken

entry |1 pages

Sassou-Nguesso, Gen. Denis

entry |4 pages

Senegal, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Senegal, economy

entry |1 pages

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

entry |1 pages

Serer

entry |4 pages

Seychelles, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Seychelles, economy

entry |1 pages

Seychelles National Party (SNP)

entry |2 pages

Shagari, Alhaji Shehu

entry |1 pages

Shari'a

entry |1 pages

Sharpeville

entry |1 pages

Shi'a or Shi'ite Muslims

entry |1 pages

Shona

entry |3 pages

Sierra Leone, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Sierra Leone, economy

entry |1 pages

Sisulu, Walter

entry |1 pages

Slabbert, Frederik van Zyl

entry |2 pages

Slavery

entry |1 pages

Slovo, Joe

entry |1 pages

Smuts, Jan

entry |1 pages

Social Democratic Front (SDF)

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Social Democratic Movement (SDM)

entry |1 pages

Social Democratic Party (SDP)

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Social Justice Party

entry |1 pages

Social Liberal Party

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Socialism

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Socialist Labour Party (Hizb al-Amal alIshtiraki)

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Socialist Liberal Party (Hizb al-Ahrar alIshtiraki)

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Société Internationale financière pour les investissements et le développement en Afrique (SIFIDA)

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Solidarité pour la défense des minorités (SOJEDEM—Solidarity for the Defence of Minorities)

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Somalia (Somali Democratic Republic)

entry |2 pages

Somalia, economy

entry |1 pages

Somaliland

entry |2 pages

Somali National Alliance (SNA)

entry |1 pages

Somalis

entry |1 pages

Soninke

entry |1 pages

Soudan

entry |5 pages

South Africa, Republic of

entry |2 pages

South Africa, economy

entry |1 pages

Southern Africa

entry |1 pages

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

entry |1 pages

Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC)

entry |1 pages

South West Africa

entry |1 pages

South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO)

entry |1 pages

Soweto

entry |1 pages

Spanish Morocco

entry |1 pages

Spanish Sahara

entry |1 pages

Stevens, Siaka

entry |1 pages

Structural Adjustment

entry |1 pages

Sub-Saharan Africa

entry |4 pages

Sudan, Republic of

entry |1 pages

Sudan, economy

entry |1 pages

Sudan-Egyptian relations

entry |1 pages

Suez Canal

entry |1 pages

Sukuma

entry |1 pages

Sunni(s)

entry |1 pages

Swahili

entry |4 pages

Swaziland, Kingdom of

entry |2 pages

Swaziland, economy

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T

entry |1 pages

At-Tajdid Movement

entry |1 pages

Et-Takaful (Solidarity)

entry |1 pages

Takfir wal Hijra

entry |1 pages

Tambo, Oliver

entry |1 pages

Tandja, Col (retd) Mamadou

entry |1 pages

Tanganyika

entry |4 pages

Tanzania, United Republic of

entry |2 pages

Tanzania, economy

entry |1 pages

Tanzim al-Jihad

entry |1 pages

Ould Taya, Col Maaouiya Ould Sidi Ahmed

entry |2 pages

Taylor, Charles

entry |1 pages

Temne

entry |1 pages

Terre'Blanche, Eugene

entry |1 pages

Terrorism

entry |2 pages

Third World

entry |1 pages

Tigray

entry |1 pages

Tigrayans

entry |4 pages

Togo (Togolese Republic)

entry |1 pages

Togo, economy

entry |1 pages

Togoland

entry |1 pages

Tolbert

entry |1 pages

Tombalbaye, François

entry |1 pages

Todd, Garfield

entry |1 pages

Touré, Ahmed Sekou

entry |1 pages

Touré, Gen. Amadou Toumani

entry |2 pages

Tristan da Cunha

entry |1 pages

Trovoada, Miguel

entry |1 pages

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

entry |1 pages

Tshombe, Moïse

entry |2 pages

Tsvangirai, Morgan

entry |1 pages

Tswana

entry |1 pages

Tubman, William

entry |3 pages

Tunisia, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Tunisia, economy

entry |1 pages

Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)

entry |1 pages

Tutsi(s)

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Twa

chapter 21|32 pages

U

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Uê-Kédadji

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Uganda, Republic of

entry |1 pages

Uganda, economy

entry |1 pages

Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation)

entry |1 pages

Umma Party (UP)

entry |1 pages

União Caboverdiana Independente e Democrática—Partido Democrata Cristão (UCID—PDC, Independent and Democratic Union of Cape Verde— Christian Democrat Party)

entry |1 pages

União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA—National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)

entry |1 pages

União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola—Renovada (UNITA—R, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola—Renewed)

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Unilateral Declaration of Independence

entry |1 pages

Union of African States

entry |1 pages

Union pour le Bénin du future (UBF— Union for Benin of the Future)

entry |1 pages

Union congolaise des républicans (UCR— Congolese Union of Republicans)

entry |1 pages

Union constitutionelle (UC—Constitutional Union)

entry |1 pages

Union pour la démocratie et les libertés (UDL—Union for Democracy and Freedoms)

entry |1 pages

Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS—Union for Democracy and Social Progress)

entry |1 pages

Union pour la démocratie et la République (UDR—Union for Democracy and the Republic)

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Union pour la démocratic et la République—Mwinda (UDR—Mwinda, Union for Democracy and the Republic— Mwinda)

entry |1 pages

Union democratique (UD—Democratic Union)

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Union démocratique du Cameroun (UDC— Democratic Union of Cameroon)

entry |1 pages

Union des démocrates et progressistes indépendantes (UDPI—Union of Independent Democrats and Progressives)

entry |1 pages

Union douanière et économique de l'Afrique centrale (UDEAC—Customs and Economic Union of Central Africa)

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Union économique et monétaire ouestafricaine (UEMOA—West African Economic and Monetary Union)

entry |1 pages

Union des forces acquises à la paix (UFAP—Union of Forces Acquired for Peace)

entry |1 pages

Union des forces démocratiques (UFD— Union of Democratic Forces)

entry |1 pages

Union des forces démocratiques (UFD— Union of Democratic Forces)

entry |1 pages

Union générate tunisienne du travail (UGTT—General Tunisian Labour Union)

entry |1 pages

Union nationale des forces populaires (UNFP—National Union of Popular Forces)

entry |1 pages

Union nationale pour la démocratic et le progrès (UNDP—National Union for Democracy and Progress)

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Union nationale démocratique du peuple centrafricain (UNDPC—National Democratic Union of the Central African People)

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Union nationale pour le développement et le renouveau (UNDR—National Union for Development and Renewal)

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Union nationale pour la solidarité et le développement (UNSD—National Union for Solidarity and Development)

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Union pan-africaine pour la démocratie sociale (UPADS—Pan-African Union for Social Democracy)

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Union patriotique pour la démocratie et le progrès (UPDP—Patriotic Union for Democracy and Progress)

entry |1 pages

Union des populations camerounaises (UPC—Union of the Cameroon Peoples)

entry |1 pages

Union pour le progrès (UP—Union for Progress)

entry |1 pages

Union pour le progrès national (UPRONA—Union for National Progress)

entry |1 pages

Union pour le redressement national (URN—Union for National Recovery)

entry |1 pages

Union pour la République (UPR—Union for the Republic)

entry |1 pages

Union pour la renaissance—Mouvement sankariste (UNIR—MS, Union for Rebirth—Sankarist Movement)

entry |2 pages

Union sacrée de l'opposition radicale (USOR—Sacred Union of the Radical Opposition)

entry |1 pages

Union sacrée de l'opposition radicale et ses alliés (USORAL—Sacred Union of the Radical Opposition and its Allies)

entry |1 pages

Union sacrée renovée (USR—Sacred Union Renewed)

entry |2 pages

Union socialiste des forces populaires (USFP—Socialist Union of Popular Forces)

entry |1 pages

Union of South Africa

entry |2 pages

Unitaf

entry |1 pages

United Arab Republic

entry |1 pages

United Arab States

entry |1 pages

United Democratic Front

entry |2 pages

United Nations

entry |1 pages

United Nations Angola Verification Mission(s) (UNAVEM)

entry |2 pages

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

entry |1 pages

United Nations Missions in Angola

entry |1 pages

United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

entry |1 pages

United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)

entry |2 pages

United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)

entry |2 pages

United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM)

entry |1 pages

United Party (UP)

entry |1 pages

United Somali Congress (USC)

entry |2 pages

UN Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL)

entry |1 pages

UN Security Council Resolution 242

entry |1 pages

UN Security Council Resolution 338

entry |1 pages

UN Security Council Resolution 864

entry |1 pages

UN Security Council Resolution 976

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UN Security Council Resolution 1118

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UN Security Council Resolution 1127

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UN Security Council Resolution 1173

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UN Security Council Resolution 1229

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UN Security Council Resolution 1295

entry |1 pages

United Socialist Party (USP)

entry |1 pages

Upper Volta

entry |1 pages

Urabi movement (Egypt)

entry |1 pages

Urbanization

entry |2 pages

Uruguay Round

entry |1 pages

Uteem, Cassam

chapter 22|3 pages

V

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Vanguards of Conquest

entry |1 pages

Veiga, Carlos

entry |1 pages

Verwoerd, Hendrick

entry |2 pages

Viljoen, Abraham

entry |1 pages

Viljoen, Constand

entry |1 pages

VIVA—Rassemblement national pour la democratic et le progrès (VIVA—RNDP, VIVA—National Rally for Democracy and Progress)

entry |2 pages

Vorster, Balthazar Johannes

chapter 23|9 pages

W

entry |1 pages

Wade, Abdoulaye

entry |1 pages

WAFA—Wafa wa al-Adl

entry |2 pages

Wafd Party (Egypt)

entry |1 pages

The Wall (Morocco and Western Sahara)

entry |1 pages

Washington Consensus

entry |2 pages

Water

entry |1 pages

Weapons of Mass Destruction (Libya)

entry |2 pages

Western Sahara—see also Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

entry |2 pages

Western Sahara, economy

entry |1 pages

Wolof

entry |1 pages

Women

entry |2 pages

Women's rights (Morocco)

entry |1 pages

Women's rights (Rwanda)

entry |1 pages

Workers' and Soldiers' Defence Committees

entry |1 pages

World Bank

entry |1 pages

World Food Programme (WFP)

entry |1 pages

World Islamic Front for the Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders

entry |1 pages

World Trade Organization (WTO)

chapter 24|1 pages

X

entry |1 pages

Xhosa

chapter 25|2 pages

Y

entry |1 pages

Yalá, Kumba

entry |2 pages

Yaoundé Conventions

entry |1 pages

Yassine, Sheikh Abdessalam

entry |1 pages

Yoruba

entry |1 pages

Youlou, Abbé Fulbert

chapter 26|18 pages

Z

entry |1 pages

Zaire—see also Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

entry |4 pages

Zambia, Republic of

entry |2 pages

Zambia, economy

entry |1 pages

az-Zanati, Muhammad

entry |3 pages

Zanzibar

entry |1 pages

az-Zawahiri, Ayman

entry |1 pages

Zenawi, Meles

entry |1 pages

Ki-Zerbo, Gen. Saye

entry |1 pages

Zéroual, Liamine

entry |5 pages

Zimbabwe, Republic of

entry |3 pages

Zimbabwe, economy

entry |2 pages

Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)

entry |1 pages

Zimbabwe African National Union— Patriotic Front) (ZANU—PF)

entry |1 pages

Zulu

entry |1 pages

Zululand

entry |1 pages

Zuma, Jacob