New book on mapping in Africa published
05 September 2007
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
Mapping Africa has been designed to serve two major purposes. First, the unit teaches students about the basic physical and political geography of Africa. Second, it introduces or reviews fundamental geographical concepts and vocabulary in an African context.
In a world so shrunken in time and distance that we can communicate almost instantly with any other city on any continent and fly to even more corners of the world in a matter of hours, a knowledge of different places can no longer be considered a luxury. Instead, it has become a necessity. Our interdependence is now so complete that actions- be they economic, political, social or environmental- in one world region can have immediate repercussions in another world region.
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