By Samuel Decalo
Considered one of Africa's greatest but least identified international locations, Chad has a wealthy pre-colonial historical past and a turbulent fresh political heritage. This most recent version of the Historical Dictionary of Chad beneficial properties new tables that checklist very important facts on its fiscal stipulations ― critical vegetation, gross household product, public funds, and major alternate companions, in addition to six maps, an inventory of abbreviations and acronyms, and a particular chronology.
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... Will turn out convenient for researchers, historians, reporters, academics, politicians, and economists. For English audio system, the gathering is a double blessing as this can be the 1st time this sort of resource of knowledge at the French talking international locations is gifted to them of their personal language. ―WEST AFRICA
Mr. Decalo is eminently qualified....especially impressive.... provides first-class heritage to the political and social history... ―THE REFERENCE publication REVIEW
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Chad's population growth is relatively low because of poor diet, diseases, and the major devastating droughts and famines that afflicted the area in the 1970s and 1980s, all of which lowered life expectancy to 31 years. The population is an aggregate of sedentary and nomadic, Sudanic, Saharan, and sub-Saharan ethnic groups, representing a mix of languages and cultures numerous even for Africa. The diversity in forms of socioeconomic organization and political hierarchy represented in traditional Chadian life are such that to the Sara of the south, for example (as also to the Teda of the far north), details of court life in the former Ouadai and Bornu kingdoms of the Sahelian belt are so alien as to be incomprehensible, while to the Abéché (Ouadai) resident the anarchic, decentralized political life of the Sara or the intense individualism of the Teda are similarly totally alien and unacceptable.
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