Une géographie africaine, pour quoi faire ?

Abstract

African geography: to what ends?— Geography in Africa is still confined to its status as a mere subject taught in schools while remaining dominated by the colonial influence. Most researchers in geography are trained abroad and the continued presence of 'Africanist' geography hinders the emergence of genuine African geography. The latter is seeking its own identity by gradually freeing itself from the environmental approach the better to analyse spatial phenomena and the social processes of the production of space.