The name refers Guinea, Africa, in several different countries. This book discusses the geography of the Republic of Guinea (capital: Conakry), the former French Guinea, the coastal State and country crossroads, according to the author, West Africa. Guinea, in various forms of relief, a true regional water tower, is a country of 245,000 square kilometers with more than 10 million people. The population includes a high proportion of young people and if the rate of natural increase is high, the migration rate, meanwhile, is negative. The population is unevenly distributed across the country, through the four natural regions of the country and is concentrated in the capital, Conakry, due to a massive rural exodus, as in many other African countries. Guinea is an ethnic mosaic. The aim of the book, the size of a I-Know-What (138 pages, little more than 125 pages of this latest collection), is to present an angle Guinea GP. Abdoul Diallo Goudoussi studied at the Institute of Geography at the Sorbonne while teaching in secondary schools in Guinea and the University of Conakry, where he was Chief Department of Geography. He is currently retired.
The book adopts a plan classic into thematic chapters: in order, physical geography, human geography, economic geography and regional geography. In the first part are highlighted the main physical characteristics of the territory: the Fouta Djallon (1538 m), Forest Guinea " water tower" of West Africa, the presence of the savanna, the mangrove forest ... The second part looks at the mosaic ethnicity, which explains the multitude of languages and the names of the country. The author categorizes rural housing of Guinea into several types: cohousing, sparsely populated village street, village plan radioconcentric ... the urban system is essentially limited to the enlarged capital, Conakry. In the third section focuses on Diallo cultivation and animal husbandry, fisheries, salt extraction, but also of bauxite (raw world reserves in Guinea) and iron. It also details the main means of communication Guinea (poor roads, problems of railway). It is also incumbent on the industry (Fria alumina plant), trade and tourism (many possibilities, not yet fully exploited due to deficiencies of the economy). In the final section, the geographer divides the country into four natural regions: the Lower Guinea and Guinea sea (with Conakry), the Fouta Djallon, the upper basin of Niger and Upper Guinea and Forest Guinea.
In conclusion Diallo recalled that Guinea has been the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the cradle of several great empires and the field of many waves of successive migrations. Colonized by France, Guinea will be the first to reject the domination of the metropolis in 1958. It is the delay of economic development of the country on account of the regime of Sekou Toure. With the latter's death and the advent of Lansana Conte in 1984, Guinea adopted a structural adjustment of the liberal order as it may then be advocated by the IMF and World Bank, which is not without cause new socio-economic problems. Told of the military dictatorship will continue to harden until his death in 2008 is once again the army seized power. Phase transition, marked by violence, ended with the elections to be place in 2010. For the author, Guinea in 2010 at the crossroads: the first sovereign of the French-speaking West Africa, yet it is one of the poorest countries in the region due to poor governance . The interior is no shortage of sites, particularly the construction of large hydroelectric plants to implement the smelting alumina and aluminum. These are measures that would boost the country's development and to play Guinea a greater role within the Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS).
be found attached a tentative bibliography and tables on the administrative organization of the country. The book is illustrated with many photos included in the text, however, the cards, many are not always good and sometimes awkward to read. The layout could also usefully be reviewed. This book is nevertheless an excellent introduction to the geography of Guinea, addressed perhaps more to the locals (as specified elsewhere the author in his preface).
The book adopts a plan classic into thematic chapters: in order, physical geography, human geography, economic geography and regional geography. In the first part are highlighted the main physical characteristics of the territory: the Fouta Djallon (1538 m), Forest Guinea " water tower" of West Africa, the presence of the savanna, the mangrove forest ... The second part looks at the mosaic ethnicity, which explains the multitude of languages and the names of the country. The author categorizes rural housing of Guinea into several types: cohousing, sparsely populated village street, village plan radioconcentric ... the urban system is essentially limited to the enlarged capital, Conakry. In the third section focuses on Diallo cultivation and animal husbandry, fisheries, salt extraction, but also of bauxite (raw world reserves in Guinea) and iron. It also details the main means of communication Guinea (poor roads, problems of railway). It is also incumbent on the industry (Fria alumina plant), trade and tourism (many possibilities, not yet fully exploited due to deficiencies of the economy). In the final section, the geographer divides the country into four natural regions: the Lower Guinea and Guinea sea (with Conakry), the Fouta Djallon, the upper basin of Niger and Upper Guinea and Forest Guinea.
In conclusion Diallo recalled that Guinea has been the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the cradle of several great empires and the field of many waves of successive migrations. Colonized by France, Guinea will be the first to reject the domination of the metropolis in 1958. It is the delay of economic development of the country on account of the regime of Sekou Toure. With the latter's death and the advent of Lansana Conte in 1984, Guinea adopted a structural adjustment of the liberal order as it may then be advocated by the IMF and World Bank, which is not without cause new socio-economic problems. Told of the military dictatorship will continue to harden until his death in 2008 is once again the army seized power. Phase transition, marked by violence, ended with the elections to be place in 2010. For the author, Guinea in 2010 at the crossroads: the first sovereign of the French-speaking West Africa, yet it is one of the poorest countries in the region due to poor governance . The interior is no shortage of sites, particularly the construction of large hydroelectric plants to implement the smelting alumina and aluminum. These are measures that would boost the country's development and to play Guinea a greater role within the Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS).
be found attached a tentative bibliography and tables on the administrative organization of the country. The book is illustrated with many photos included in the text, however, the cards, many are not always good and sometimes awkward to read. The layout could also usefully be reviewed. This book is nevertheless an excellent introduction to the geography of Guinea, addressed perhaps more to the locals (as specified elsewhere the author in his preface).
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