This guide covers travel in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Now revised, it features an expanded 32-page section on the region's culture and birdlife. Listings of places to stay and eat are included for all budgets and there is comprehensive coverage of contemporary and traditional music. Language sections and a glossary are also included. In many countries these are simply the best maps available.
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USA by Robert A. Dibie account of events in Nigeria since 1986 uses research and firsthand accounts to reveal the relationship between the military and the state bureaucracy and attempts to create economic development. Examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria from the colonial period to the present, and gives profiles of the country's key entrepreneurs. Covers the various forms of capital accumulation and sectional advances in trade, transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance, and other sources. Includes discussion on shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and attitudes towards private business and the state. U.D. Anyanwu Contributed articles on various cultural, historic, technological, policy and scientific issues involved in transforming agricuture in South Eastern Nigeria from a broader global and national perspective.