<alinea/> In this article, George COURADE explains how he became an ORSTOM tropicalist geographer whereas his life course seemed to lead him to another professional destiny ; and how he found difficult to adopt a tropicalist referential. As an ORSTOM-IRD civil servant expatriated in ?Françafrique?...

Tourist activity is a form of transhumance linked to industrialisation and to the rise of living standards in the North and in emerging countries. Extended to the whole planet by planes, it affects many countries whereby it may cause damages or bring about some development. This is because it...

Analyses of the death of the continent are not new. While the one of Stephen Smith springs from popular clichés, it is nonetheless nuanced and clarifies a number of points. However, identifying with and addressing oneself to afro-centrists and to their friend's, amounts to an attitude that may...