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Africa Table of ContentsJuly 2002
Compiled by Joan T. Phillips, Bibliographer
Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL
Arab Net.
Available online at: http://www.arab.net
General information about the countries of Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, and Tunisia.
Background Note: Djibouti.. Washington, United States. Dept. of State, November 2001.
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5482.htm
CIA World Factbook 2001.
Available online at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
General information about each country including a map.
Political Resources on the Net: Africa.
Available online at: http://www.politicalresources.net/africa.htm
Provides political information about each African country.
Books
2002 Index of Economic Freedom, edited by Gerald P.
O'Driscoll, Jr. and others. Washington, Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones, 2002. 428 p.
For each country lists information such as: trade policy, fiscal burden of government, government intervention in the economy, monetary policy, capital flow and foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market.
Book call no.: R 330.9 I38 2002
Aerospace Encyclopedia of World Air Forces, edited by David Willis. Westport, CT, AIRtime Publishing, 1999. 320 p.
Djibouti, p 134.
Book call no.: R 358.4003 A252
Africa 2002, edited by Charles H. Cutter. 37th ed. Harpers Ferry, WV, Stryker-Post Publications, 2002. 282 p.
General information about each country including history.
Book call no.: R 916 D724a 37th ed. 2002
Africa's Review 2000. 23rd ed. Saffron Walden, Essex, England, Walden Publishing, 2000. 328 p.
Book call no.: R 960 A25811 23d ed 2000
Africa South of the Sahara 2002. 31st ed. London, Europa, 2001. 1305 p.
Provides detailed information about each country.
Book call no.: R 916.7 A258 31st ed 2002
Countries and Their Cultures. New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. 4 vols.
Book call no.: R 306.03 C855
Jane's Sentinel: Security Assessment: North Africa 2002. Alexandria, VA, Jane's Information Group, 2002. 704 p.
Has general information about each country and detailed information about each country's defense.
Book call no.: R 961 J33 Iss.10 2002
Jane's World Insurgency and Terrorism. Alexandria, VA, Jane's Information Group, 2002. 890 p.
See table of contents to locate information about each country.
Book call no.: R 364.1 J33 2002 May-Aug
Statesman's Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World, edited by Barry Turner. New York,
Palgrave, 2001. 2057 p.
Information about each country includes: key historical events, territory and population, climate, constitution and government, defense, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, trade, communications, social institutions, and culture.
Book call no.: R 310 St2 138th ed 2002
Statistical Abstract of the World, edited by Annemarie Muth. 3d ed. Detroit, MI, Gale Research, 1997. 1134 p.
Statistics for each country include geography, demographics, health, human factors, education, science and technology, government and law, labor force, production sectors, manufacturing sector, and finance, economics, and trade.
Book call no.: R 310 S797 1997
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Detroit, MI, Gale Group, 2001. 4 vols.
Provides general information about each country.
Book call no.: R 031 W927 2001 v.2
Brinkley, C. Mark. Friendship with Djibouti a Boon for U.S. Forces. Air Force Times 62:23 July 22, 2002.
"A safe harbor for U.S. ships in the area is important, especially after the 2000 terrorist bombing of the destroyer Cole in nearby Yemen, and Djibouti has a port that meets such needs."
Djibouti. Military Technology 26:274-275 World Defence Almanac 2001-2002.
Force structure.
East Africa: Conflicting Agendas. Africa Confidential 43:5-6 January 11, 2002.
Evaluates the situation in East African countries.
Haileselassie, Ayenew. Talks on Ethiopia-Djibouti Disputes. West Africa No.4320:32-33 April 8, 2002.
"Efforts to iron out differences over the longstanding and vital trade link between two neighbours in the Horn of Africa."
Internet Resources
Background Note: Equatorial Guinea.. Washington, United States. Dept. of State, January 2002.
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/7221.htm
CIA World Factbook 2001.
Available online at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
General information about each country including a map.
Political Resources on the Net: Africa.
Available online at: http://www.politicalresources.net/africa.htm
Provides political information about each African country.
Books
2002 Index of Economic Freedom, edited by Gerald P.
O'Driscoll, Jr. and others. Washington, Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones, 2002. 428 p.
For each country lists information such as: trade policy, fiscal burden of government, government intervention in the economy, monetary policy, capital flow and foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market.
Book call no.: R 330.9 I38 2002
Aerospace Encyclopedia of World Air Forces, edited by David Willis. Westport, CT, AIRtime Publishing, 1999. 320 p.
Equatorial Guinea, p 136.
Book call no.: R 358.4003 A252
Africa 2002, edited by Charles H. Cutter. 37th ed. Harpers Ferry, WV, Stryker-Post Publications, 2002. 282 p.
General information about each country including history.
Book call no.: R 916 D724a 37th ed. 2002
Africa's Review 2000. 23rd ed. Saffron Walden, Essex, England, Walden Publishing, 2000. 328 p.
Book call no.: R 960 A25811 23d ed 2000
Africa South of the Sahara 2002. 31st ed. London, Europa, 2001. 1305 p.
Provides detailed information about each country.
Book call no.: R 916.7 A258 31st ed 2002
Countries and Their Cultures. New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. 4 vols.
Book call no.: R 306.03 C855
Rake, Allen. African Leaders: Guiding the New Millennium. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2001. 261 p.
Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo Obiang, pp 80-85.
Book call no.: 920.06 R162a
Statesman's Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World, edited by Barry Turner. New York,
Palgrave, 2001. 2057 p.
Information about each country includes: key historical events, territory and population, climate, constitution and government, defense, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, trade, communications, social institutions, and culture.
Book call no.: R 310 St2 138th ed 2002
Statistical Abstract of the World, edited by Annemarie Muth. 3d ed. Detroit, MI, Gale Research, 1997. 1134 p.
Statistics for each country include geography, demographics, health, human factors, education, science and technology, government and law, labor force, production sectors, manufacturing sector, and finance, economics, and trade.
Book call no.: R 310 S797 1997
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Detroit, MI, Gale Group, 2001. 4 vols.
Provides general information about each country.
Book call no.: R 031 W927 2001 v.2
Akata-Ohohe, Bunmi. Equatorial Guinea: Tainted Justice. Africa Today: Voice of the Continent 8:6 July 2002.
"The sentencing to 68 opposition leaders and members of the military to prison terms ranging from 6 to 20 year for purportedly plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in 1997 has been met with stinging criticism from locals, human rights groups and the international community."
Akosah-Sarpong, Kofi. Equatorial Guinea Oil Boom. West Africa No.4326:33 May 20, 2002.
Equatorial Guinea reaps a harvest of money from offshore oil drilling.
Equatorial Guinea. Military Technology 26:275 World Defence Almanac 2001-2002.
Force structure.
Equatorial Guinea: Purring again. Africa Confidential 43:5 April 19, 2002.
"President Obiang's latest coup plot looks like a pre-succession purge."
Silverstein, Ken. U.S. Oil Politics in the 'Kuwait of America'. Nation 274:11-14+ April 22, 2002.
The relationship of the United States and Equatorial Guinea is affected by oil production.