Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop

Author:Cheikh Anta Diop [Diop, Cheikh Anta]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 1987-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

6) Nilotic Sudan, Great Lakes, Ethiopia

This region, several times as large as Europe, has its principal energy source in the reserves of the Nile and its tributaries: potentially more than 60 billion kilowatt-hours per year. The major part of this energy is to be furnished by the dam at Oven at the issue of Lake Victoria. There are also uranium deposits.

The port of Mombasa in Kenya on the Indian Ocean is due to become a great naval-construction center.

Growing cotton, sugar cane, hemp, sisal, oil palms and cocoanut trees (in the coastal plain) calls for setting-up of corresponding industries. On the other hand, maize and other cereals, coffee and tea, are grown for consumption and export.

The country is equally well suited to sizable cattle spreads in the savannah. It has the whole range of climatic zones, right on up to the snows of the Mountains of the Moon.

Many of the sites that appeal to tourists would also be ideal for the establishment of sanitariums and rest homes.

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