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Recommended by the American Library Association's CHOICE MAGAZINE as "an excellent, inexpensive reference work for all undergraduate and gradute schools, as well as large public libraries and African studies programs," this book has become a standard reference to this fascinating continent not only in schools and colleges but in business and general interest circles. BUSINESS IN AFRICA describes it as "a roadmap to opening up the continent with total frankness and without succumbing to verbal diarrhoea." It covers all aspects of the continent and its 53 nations from geography to economics, travel to politics and sport to human interest. Well-reasearched editorial is supplemented with maps of every country, regions and the continent together with pictures graphs and charts.