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Résumé :
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This volume in the series of Studies of Medical Geography has a telling diagram as frontispiece which shows a single human being having a meal with, as backdrop, a banana tree and a coconut palm. He is circumscribed by four concentric geographical circles. Nearest to him is medical geography or diets with nutritional diseases. Proceeding outwards the others are human geography or tradition and culture, economic geography or food production and resources, and physical geography or land and environment. That diagram, attributed to the American Geographical Society, illustrates the bounds within which the populations of this very large area, comprising nine political units in West Africa and the island of Madagascar, are severely restrained. As is mentioned in the introduction, although the breadth of the continent separates them, their French heritage and African ethnic origin unite them in the problems they face and in their quest for solutions to their difficulties.
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