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Preliminary Material -- I. Sub-Saharan Africa / Andreas Mehler , Henning Melber and Klaas van Walraven -- II. United Nations and Sub-Saharan Africa / Linnéa Gelot -- III. African-European Relations / Mark Furness -- IV. West Africa / Klaas van Walraven -- Benin / Eric Komlavi Hahonou -- Burkina Faso / Alexander Stroh -- Cape Verde / Gerhard Seibert -- Côte d’Ivoire / Bruno Losch -- Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- Ghana / Michael Amoah -- Guinea / Mike McGovern -- Guinea-Bissau / Christoph Kohl -- Liberia / Lansana Gberie and Aaron Weah -- Mali / Martin van Vliet -- Mauritania / Claes Olsson and Helena Olsson -- Niger / Klaas van Walraven -- Nigeria / Heinrich Bergstresser -- Senegal / Vincent Foucher -- Sierra Leone / Krijn Peters -- Togo / Dirk Kohnert -- V. Central Africa / Andreas Mehler -- Cameroon / Fanny Pigeaud -- Central African Republic / Andreas Mehler -- Chad / Han van Dijk -- Republic of Congo / John F. Clark -- Democratic Republic of the Congo / Claudia Simons -- Equatorial Guinea / Alicia Campos -- Gabon / Douglas A. Yates -- São Tomé and Príncipe / Gerhard Seibert -- VI. Eastern Africa / Rolf Hofmeier -- Burundi / Stef Vandeginste -- Comoros / Rolf Hofmeier -- Djibouti / Rolf Hofmeier -- Eritrea / Nicole Hirt -- Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Kenya / Nic Cheeseman -- Rwanda / Susan Thomson -- Seychelles / Rolf Hofmeier -- Somalia / Jon Abbink -- South Sudan / Peter Woodward -- Sudan / Peter Woodward -- Tanzania / Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier -- Uganda / Volker Weyel -- VII. Southern Africa / Henning Melber -- Angola / Jon Schubert -- Botswana / David Sebudubudu and Maitseo Bolaane -- Lesotho / Roger Southall -- Madagascar / Richard R. Marcus -- Malawi / Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa-Jamali and Lewis Baison Dzimbiri -- Mauritius / Klaus-Peter Treydte -- Mozambique / Joseph Hanlon -- Namibia / Henning Melber -- South Africa / Ineke van Kessel -- Swaziland / John Daniel and Marisha Ramdeen -- Zambia / Gero Erdmann -- Zimbabwe / Amin Y. Kamete -- List of Authors.

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The Africa Yearbook has won the ASA 2012 Conover-Porter Book Award! 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.