Atlas of Africa

<p>This innovative Atlas of Africa, by the Agence Française de Développement, offers comprehensive insights into contemporary Africa through the use of full-colour maps, charts, graphics and text which demonstrate and explain Africa’s growing importance in the world and its demographic, economic, social and environmental transformation, while also outlining the challenges that the continent faces. </p><p>The three sections, offering new perspectives on the continent, comprise:</p><ul> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Taking Full Measure of Africa – examining the major economic, demographic, social and political transformations that Africa has undergone in a short space of time. </li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>A Multifaceted Continent with Shared Challenges – looking at the major intraregional economic, demographic, environmental and social dynamics that are currently shaping the continent.</li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Africa Inventing Itself and Taking up the Key Challenges of Tomorrow – an overview of the challenges that Africa is currently facing and will need to face in the future, including the environment and climate change, social cohesion and demographic issues, economic development and governance.</li> </ul><p>Full-colour maps, charts and graphics cover such wide-ranging topics as economic development, urbanization, education, the rule of law, gender, the blue economy, regional organizations, energy and culture, to form a volume which offers a wide-ranging overview in graphic form of Africa in the world today, of interest to all those studying, working in or with Africa, and those with a general interest in the continent.</p> <p>Preface</p><p>6 ALL OF AFRICA</p><p>For a new vision of a continent on the move</p><p>8 PREAMBLE</p><p>Africa takes on Covid-19</p><p>TAKING FULL MEASURE OF AFRICA</p><p>12 Africa upturning demographic equilibria around the world</p><p>14 Longer life expectancy and a gradual reduction of fertility rates</p><p>16 Africa home to the world’s youth: an opportunity to be seized</p><p>18 Child and maternal health and under-nutrition: gaining the upper hand</p><p>20 Contagious and tropical diseases: Africa exposed but headed in the right direction</p><p>22 Africa’s efforts in schooling its children</p><p>24 Water and sanitation: the key</p><p>to improving health and environmental conditions</p><p>26 Africa on the path to electrical connection</p><p>28 When the success of mobile telephones facilitates banking inclusion</p><p>30 African economic growth despite instability</p><p>32 Africa’s asset: the internal market</p><p>34 A changing economy tracing its own development path</p><p>36 Closer economic ties with all the world’s countries</p><p>38 Africa, the new travel destination</p><p>40 Africa being courted in diplomacy and culture</p><p>42 Political liberalization in Africa</p><p>44 Less lethal conflicts, more complex violence</p><p>46 The gradual improvement in economic and public governance</p><p>A MULTIFACETED CONTINENT WITH SHARED CHALLENGES</p><p>50 African giants and small economies: how to read the African economy</p><p>52 The geography of wealth in Africa</p><p>54 Considerable natural resources: who for? what for?</p><p>56 Extreme poverty concentrated on the continent</p><p>58 Fragility and development: two</p><p>interconnected challenges</p><p>60 Inequalities: a situation of contrasts</p><p>62 Urbanization, a strong trend in settlement in Africa</p><p>64 Simultaneous densification of cities and countryside</p><p>66 Rural and landlocked zones: the main factors in unequal access to basic services</p><p>68 Economic integration progressing in Africa</p><p>70 Growth in intra-African trade as a driver of diversification</p><p>72 Emergence of a pan-African financial system</p><p>74 Intra-continental migration: human ties between African spaces</p><p>76 Human mobility taking shape on the continent</p><p>78 Creative industries, the face of an emerging cultural industry</p><p>80 Africa, a blue continent</p><p>82 The Saharan-Sahelian space</p><p>84 African forests under pressure</p><p>AFRICA INVENTING ITSELF AND TAKING UP THE KEY CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW</p><p>88 A continent more exposed to climate change</p><p>90 The impacts of climate change</p><p>92 African biodiversity under pressure</p><p>94 Skills acquisition and enhancement: the education challenge in Africa</p><p>96 Employment in all its forms, a key to the prosperity of the continent</p><p>98 Issues of women’s status in Africa</p><p>100 Obesity and chronic diseases: new health challenges</p><p>102 High expectations for the rule of law and freedom of expression</p><p>104 Inventive civil society in Africa</p><p>106 Sport as a vector of economic and social development</p><p>108 Solar energy in Africa: reconciling sustainability and economic opportunity</p><p>110 Towards more inclusive African cities</p><p>112 Extending access to internet to accelerate the digital revolution</p><p>114 Building the capacity for action of the public sector</p><p>116 The potential of the public development banks in Africa</p><p>118 Towards more bank financing for the private sector</p><p>120 Reinventing external financial support for Africa</p><p>122 Agriculture the African way</p><p>124 Industrialization: drawing benefit from value chains</p><p>126 What role for digital innovation in Africa?</p>