Tropical Africa / by Robert Coughlan and the editors of Life.

With hardcover

Maps on lining papers

Cont.: Panorama of an emerging land -- A slowly yielding society -- Migrations in the mists of time -- Fabled kingdoms of antiquity -- Exploitation on an epic scale -- The all-pervading world of the spirit -- A unique artistic heritage -- Colonialism's disputed legacy -- The surge to independence -- Problems and obstacles ahead.

A political, historical, economic, social, and cultural tour of Africa south of the Sahara, partivularly through Ghana, Nigeria, the Belgian Congo, Guinea, and Kenya.