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Not long ago, while writing about the African past, an elderly scholar of the West African city of Bobo-Dyulasso recalled the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate, and opined that Africa had changed since then. Considering that the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate had occurred a thousand years earlier, this was no small understatement; but the mufti of Bobo, concerned to argue that African histor…
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institu- tions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the…