Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run
into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to
haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most
politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with
sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate
the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of
the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high
altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest
point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian
zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where
and nut cultivation and harvesting is possible; and an endowed
southern tropical zone where the forest and the savanna meet,
blessed by several long-running rivers, most notably, the Logone
and the Chari that empty their waters into centuries-old Lake Chad.
Even though things in Chad seem to have improved during the past 10
years, most observers agree that the path to peace, reconstruction,
and economic progress is still long and arduous. This fourth
edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an
introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on
important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations,
religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chad.
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