Map work details

Hey, I got an email inquiring about Map Work 1, which is due on Monday.

The overall structure of the assignment is here.
Every map assignment will relate to the region that is identified for that week. Well, more like the week that is coming up--thanks to the condensed summer schedule.
So, Map Work 1 will be about Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Maybe I should clarify this in the course web pages, eh! I shall try to do that soon.)

So, how would I like you to approach the assignment? Read through the articles related to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is largely focused on one country, right? Use the CIA Factbook, for instance, to understand more about that country. And then expand the geographic scope to the part of Africa that is below the Sahara. And then follow the guidelines I have for you when it comes to putting together the assignment itself.

The articles provide an interesting bait of sorts--otherwise, to simply 'learn" about some distant part of the world can become a boring task.
However, it is not that the details of the articles won't come in handy--the short essay questions I will have for you will relate to the articles.

Incidentally, when you try to understand the regions, you will find that in many cases the "edges" of the region are wonderful zones of transition in a number of different ways. In the case of Sub-Saharan Africa, the zone of transition is called the "Sahel." Physical and human geographic characteristics markedly differ between above and below the Sahel.
We can see such zones of transition all around the world, though perhaps not as pronounced as it is with Africa.