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...NIGERIA (Br.) Pop.: 42,000,000. Size: 356,669 sq. mi. Literacy: 24%. School attendance: * 55%. College graduates: ** over 5,000. Christians: 20%. Five universities, plus widespread adult literacy classes. Together with Ghana has more college graduates than all other black African states combined. Witchcraft, female circumcision still common in rural areas...

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

...GHANA (Br.) Pop.: 6,700,000. Size: 92,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 25%. School enrollment: 600,000. College graduates: 4,500. Christians: 28%. Most people practice old animist religions, but violent rites largely gone. Some 5,000 Ghanaians studying in West, reflecting increased college attendance in African nations...

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

...SIERRA LEONE (Br.) Pop.: 2,600,000. Size: 27,924 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 450. Christians: 30%. Capital city, Freetown, boasts University College, affiliated with Britain's Durham University since 1876. Literacy below 5% in hinterland, where pagan rituals common...

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

...GAMBIA (Br.) Pop.: 280,000. Size: 4,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 10%. College graduates: 50. Moslems: 85%. Savage customs are rare and fast dying...

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

Brazil, a country almost as big as the U.S. (3,287,842 sq. mi.) and with a population expected to reach 200 million by 2000, has been spinning adrift for eleven months, ever since President Janio Quadros quit. Now, in place of a strong presidency, it has a two-headed parliamentary system that isn't working. Bloody riots in the streets, and the possibility of worse ones, last week brought bickering politicians into a semblance of truce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Three in Trouble | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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