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Contents

Africa: a continent in ferment
9
Africa (Description and travel, Social conditions)
Peoples of Africa have many faces
11
Africa (Indigenous peoples)
Varied land of Africa
12
Economic assistance (Africa), Africa (Maps)
White impact upon Africa
19
Africa (History)
Tangier, lure for Europeans
24
Tangier (Morocco)
Photographer's nine worst days
86
Eliot Elisofon; 1911-1973, Mountaineering
Black Africa
91
Africa (Indigenous peoples)
Durable Haile Selassie
103
Haile Selassie I (Emperor of Ethiopia); 1892-1975, Ethiopia
New native art
106
Art, Black
I speak for the African
111
Africa (Indigenous peoples, Race relations)

Splendid hot seat
27
Morocco (Politics and government)
Air bases are U.S. stake in French Morocco
35
Air bases
Rocky Sahara
36
Sahara
Strong leader
41
Mohammed Naguib; 1901-1984, Egypt (Politics and government)
Administrator of Youkounkoun
47
Georges DUCREST, Youkounkoun (Guinea)
Africa's only republic
51
Liberia
Land of good cheer
59
Kwame Nkrumah; 1909-1972, Ghana
Million-dollar operator
66
Nigeria (Industries)
Educated elite for Nigeria
71
Colleges and universities (Nigeria)
Lost peaks and big game
75
Virunga National Park (Congo: Democratic Republic)
Tropic trail to icy peaks
80
Ruwenzori Mountains (Congo and Uganda)
Modern Congo is born
131
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kenya lies under the sword
143
Mau Mau, Kenya (Race relations)
Dreadful diseases
153
Public health (Africa)
Federation leader
157
Sir Roy Welensky; 1907-1991, Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Smoke that thunders
161
Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
Impending tragedy
163
Elections (South Africa), South Africa (Politics and government)
Portrait
168
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom; 1893-1958
Painted village
173
South Africa (Indigenous peoples)
Malan in his great triumph
175
Daniel Francois Malan; 1874-1959, Elections (South Africa)
Americans and Africa
178
Africa and the United States
Return of the captives
181
Korean War, 1950-1953 (Prisoners and prisons)

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