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...CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. (F.) Pop.: 1,227,000. Size: 238,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 8%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 10. Outside one real town, river port Bangui, primitive population untouched by West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...CAMEROUN (F. & Br.) Pop.: 4,907,000. Size: 166,800 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 78%. College graduates: More than 100. Christians: 20%. Moslems: 20%. Natives mostly spirit-worshiping animists. Its 80 tribes range from Arabs to Pygmies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...GABON (F.) Pop.: 440,000. Size: 103,089 sq. mi. Literacy: 6%. School attendance: 80%. Graduates: Under 10. Christians: 40%. Coastal region civilized; cannibalism, female circumcision still common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...CONGO, Brazzaville (F.) Pop.: 900,000. Size: 132,046 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 85%. College graduates: less than 20. One of ex-French Africa's highest literacy rates. Despite efforts to stamp out savage ways, there is occasional cannibalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...CONGO, Leopoldville (Bel.) Pop.: 17,000,000. Size: 905,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 50%. College graduates: 35. Christians: Nominal 47%. In interior, population is almost totally illiterate; sorcery, ritual killings, tribal warfare persist. Less than 10% are serious Christians; 504 priests, 121 nongraduate doctors serve one of Africa's biggest populations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

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