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Huge areas are wholly empty, but wherever meagre vegetation can support grazing animals or reliable water sources occur, scattered clusters of inhabitants have survived. Rotbergs new book africa emerges which appeared in the latest issue of the frankfurtbased journal weltsichten. Two books that tell the unsettling tale of south africas. The book analyzes the political, economic, social, and environmental processes that shape resource use and development in this large, div\ erse region. Africa south of the sahara is a region of great variety. Start studying africa south of the sahara countries and capitals. Africa south of the sahara is one of the most destitute regions of the world. Ancient africa is nearly 5,000 miles from north to south, africa that lies south of the sahara desert is the secondlargest continent and was the home of some of the earliest and most advanced cultures of the ancient world.
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