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...IVORY COAST (F.) Pop.: 3,300,000. Size: 125,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 16%. School attendance: 40%. College graduates: More than 600. One in every 225 citizens gets higher education. Abidjan is black Africa's most pleasantly Frenchified city...
...TOGO (F.) Pop.: 1,440,000. Size: 19,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 42%. College graduates: More than 100. Christians: 25%. Witchcraft, savage ritual still prevalent...
...DAHOMEY (F.) Pop.: 1,934,000. Size: 44,695 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 35%. College graduates: More than 100. Dahomey has sent many civil servants to neighboring countries. In wild north, tribes still emulate King Dan. Dahomey means literally "belly of Dan," after 17th century ruler who devoured victims...
...NIGER (F.) Pop.: 2,870,000. Size: 450,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 2%. School attendance: 3%. College graduates: less than 10. Lowest school enrollment rate in ex-French Africa. People mostly nomadic Moslems whose life has not changed in centuries...
...CHAD (F.) Pop.: 2,675,000. Size: 495,752 sq. mi. Literacy: 3%. School attendance: 22%. College graduates: Under 10. Christians: 5 %. Pagan blacks in south rule nomadic Moslems in north, who refuse to be taught by better educated southerners...