Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / The Editors -- List of Abbreviations -- Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2017) -- List of Authors -- Part 1 -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Jon Abbink , Victor Adetula , Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber -- Part 2 -- African-European Relations / Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer -- Part 3 -- West Africa / Victor Adetula -- Benin / Alexander Stroh -- Burkina Faso / Daniel Eizenga -- Cabo Verde / Gerhard Seibert -- Côte d’Ivoire / Jesper Bjarnesen -- The Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- Ghana / Jennifer C. Boylan -- Guinea / Anita Schroven -- Guinea-Bissau / Christoph Kohl -- Liberia / Franzisca Zanker -- Mali / Bruce Whitehouse -- Mauritania / Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson -- Niger / Klaas van Walraven -- Nigeria / Heinrich Bergstresser -- Senegal / Mamadou Bodian -- Sierra Leone / Krijn Peters -- Togo / Dirk Kohnert -- Part 4 -- Central Africa / Andreas Mehler -- Cameroon / Fanny Pigeaud -- Central African Republic / Andreas Mehler -- Chad / Ketil Fred Hansen -- Congo / Brett L. Carter -- Democratic Republic of the Congo / Janosch Kullenberg -- Equatorial Guinea / Joseph N. Mangarella -- Gabon / Douglas Yates -- São Tomé and Príncipe / Gerhard Seibert -- Part 5 -- Eastern Africa / Jon Abbink -- Burundi / Tomas van Acker -- Comoros / Simon Massey -- Djibouti / Nicole Hirt -- Eritrea / Nicole Hirt -- Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Kenya / Nanjala Nyabola -- Rwanda / Yolande Bouka -- Seychelles / Anthoni van Nieuwkerk and Jon Abbink -- Somalia / Jon Abbink -- South Sudan / Daniel Large -- Sudan / Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes -- Tanzania / Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier -- Uganda / Volker Weyel -- Part 6 -- Southern Africa / Henning Melber -- Angola / Jon Schubert -- Botswana / David Sebudubudu -- Lesotho / Roger Southall -- Madagascar / Richard R. Marcus -- Malawi / George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri -- Mauritius / Tor Sellström -- Mozambique / Joseph Hanlon -- Namibia / Henning Melber -- South Africa / Sanusha Naidu -- Swaziland / Marisha Ramdeen -- Zambia / Edalina Rodrigues Sanches -- Zimbabwe / Amin Y. Kamete.

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The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.