This innovative Atlas of Africa, by the Agence Française de Développement, offers comprehensive insights into contemporary Africa through the use of full-colour maps, charts, graphics and text which demonstrate and explain Africa's growing importance in the world and its demographic, economic, social and environmental transformation, while also outlining the challenges that the continent faces.

The three sections, offering new perspectives on the continent, comprise:

• Taking Full Measure of Africa - examining the major economic, demographic, social and political transformations that Africa has undergone in a short space of time. ****

• A Multifaceted Continent with Shared Challenges - looking at the major intraregional economic, demographic, environmental and social dynamics that are currently shaping the continent. ****

• Africa Inventing Itself and Taking up the Key Challenges of Tomorrow - an overview of the challenges that Africa is currently facing and will need to face in the future, including the environment and climate change, social cohesion and demographic issues, economic development and governance. Full-colour maps, charts and graphics cover such wide-ranging topics as economic development, urbanization, education, the rule of law, gender, the blue economy, regional organizations, energy and culture, to form a volume which offers a wide-ranging overview in graphic form of Africa in the world today, of interest to all those studying, working in or with Africa, and those with a general interest in the continent.

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  Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a public financial institution, funds, supports and accelerates the transition towards a fairer and more sustainable world. Its teams, focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance, carry out projects in France's overseas departments and territories and in a further 115 countries.

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  Preface

  6 ALL OF AFRICA

  For a new vision of a continent on the move

  8 PREAMBLE

  Africa takes on Covid-19

  TAKING FULL MEASURE OF AFRICA

  12 Africa upturning demographic equilibria around the world

  14 Longer life expectancy and a gradual reduction of fertility rates

  16 Africa home to the world's youth: an opportunity to be seized

  18 Child and maternal health and under-nutrition: gaining the upper hand

  20 Contagious and tropical diseases: Africa exposed but headed in the right direction

  22 Africa's efforts in schooling its children

  24 Water and sanitation: the key

  to improving health and environmental conditions

  26 Africa on the path to electrical connection

  28 When the success of mobile telephones facilitates banking inclusion

  30 African economic growth despite instability

  32 Africa's asset: the internal market

  34 A changing economy tracing its own development path

  36 Closer economic ties with all the world's countries

  38 Africa, the new travel destination

  40 Africa being courted in diplomacy and culture

  42 Political liberalization in Africa

  44 Less lethal conflicts, more complex violence

  46 The gradual improvement in economic and public governance

  A MULTIFACETED CONTINENT WITH SHARED CHALLENGES

  50 African giants and small economies: how to read the African economy

  52 The geography of wealth in Africa

  54 Considerable natural resources: who for? what for?

  56 Extreme poverty concentrated on the continent

  58 Fragility and development: two

  interconnected challenges

  60 Inequalities: a situation of contrasts

  62 Urbanization, a strong trend in settlement in Africa

  64 Simultaneous densification of cities and countryside

  66 Rural and landlocked zones: the main factors in unequal access to basic services

  68 Economic integration progressing in Africa

  70 Growth in intra-African trade as a driver of diversification

  72 Emergence of a pan-African financial system

  74 Intra-continental migration: human ties between African spaces

  76 Human mobility taking shape on the continent

  78 Creative industries, the face of an emerging cultural industry

  80 Africa, a blue continent

  82 The Saharan-Sahelian space

  84 African forests under pressure

  AFRICA INVENTING ITSELF AND TAKING UP THE KEY CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW

  88 A continent more exposed to climate change

  90 The impacts of climate change

  92 African biodiversity under pressure

  94 Skills acquisition and enhancement: the education challenge in Africa

  96 Employment in all its forms, a key to the prosperity of the continent

  98 Issues of women's status in Africa

  100 Obesity and chronic diseases: new health challenges

  102 High expectations for the rule of law and freedom of expression

  104 Inventive civil society in Africa

  106 Sport as a vector of economic and social development

  108 Solar energy in Africa: reconciling sustainability and economic opportunity

  110 Towards more inclusive African cities

  112 Extending access to internet to accelerate the digital revolution

  114 Building the capacity for action of the public sector

  116 The potential of the public development banks in Africa

  118 Towards more bank financing for the private sector

  120 Reinventing external financial support for Africa

  122 Agriculture the African way

  124 Industrialization: drawing benefit from value chains

  126 What role for digital innovation in Africa?