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Chapters: Cacheu, Bissorã, Gabú, Bafatá, Bubaque, Boe, Guinea-Bissau, Canchungo, Catió, Quinhámel, Fulacunda, Mansôa, Quebo, Nhacra, Cumeré, Tombali, Cufar, Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, Orango, Regions of Guinea-Bissau, Bolama Region, Gabú Region, Bafatá Region, Geba River, Biombo Region, Cacheu Region, Quinara Region, Corubal River, Tombali Region, Farim River, São Domingos, Caravela, Uracane, Galinhas, João Viera, Contuboel, Bula, Uno, Formosa, Bambadinca District, Orangozinho, Galomaro, Cacine, Prabis, Caio, Gamamundo, Safim, Pecixe, Xitole, Bedanda, Jeta, Bigene, Roxa, Tite, Empada, Canghungo, Pirada, Carache, Rio de Canjambari, Mansaba, Piche, Sonaco, Soncao, Unhacomo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Boe (full name Madina do Boe) is a settlement in the southeastern region of Guinea-Bissau. In this location the independence of Guinea-Bissau was declared on September 24, 1973. Boe served as the Guinea-Bissau de facto capital until 1974, when Portugal offered independence to Portuguese Guinea after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, and Bissau was declared the national capital of the newly-independent country. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1537683 ... Read more

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Chapters: Guinean Mangroves, São Domingos, Bula, Cacine, Prabis, Caio, Safim, Bedanda, Bigene, Tite, Empada, Canghungo, Pirada, Mansaba, Piche, Sonaco, Soncao. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article describes the geography of Guinea-Bissau. The climate in Guinea-Bissau is tropical. This means it is generally hot and humid. It has a monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds and a dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds. Guinea-Bissau is warm all year around and there is little temperature fluctuation; it averages 26.3 °C (79.3 °F). The average rainfall for Bissau is 2,024 millimetres (79.7 in) although this is almost entirely accounted for during the rainy season which falls between June and September/October. From December through April, the country experiences drought. The terrain of Guinea-Bissau is mostly low coastal plain with swamps of Guinean mangroves rising to Guinean forest-savanna mosaic in the east. The lowest point on Guinea-Bissau is at sea level at the Atlantic Ocean . The highest point on Guinea-Bissau is 300 metres above sea level at an unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country . Natural resources found in Guinea-Bissau include fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, clay, granite, limestone and unexploited deposits of petroleum . 8.31% of the land is arable and 250 square kilometres is irrigated. Natural hazards include a hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze that may reduce visibility during the dry season and brush fires . Severe environmental issues include deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing and overfishing . Near the Senegal border there have been historic sightings of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but that endangered canid may now be extirpated in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12188 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bolama, Bubaque, Bissagos Islands, Orango, Caravela, Uracane, Galinhas, João Viera, Uno, Formosa, Orangozinho, Pecixe, Jeta, Roxa, Carache, Unhacomo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Bissagos Islands or Bijagós Archipelago are a group of some eighteen major islands and dozens more smaller ones in the Atlantic Ocean with an area of 2 624 km and a population of 30,000 (2006). They are a part of Guinea-Bissau. The population mostly speaks Bijago and has a considerable degree of autonomy. The islands include: Bolama, Bubaque, Carache, Caravela, Enu, Formosa, Galinhas, João Viera, Maio, Meneque, Orango, Orangozinho, Ponta, Roxa, Rubane, Soga, Unhacomo, Uno and Uracane. They constitute a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, known for animals including marine turtles and monkeys and are mostly forested. In pre-colonial times, the islands were central to the trade along the coast of West Africa and they built up a powerful navy. In 1535 this enabled them to rout the Portuguese when they attempted to conquer the islands. The islands were not taken by Portugal until 1936. The Bissagos were visited by Austrian anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik in (1930-1931). Bernatzik documented daily life among the Bidyogo people. Orango is run by a matriarchy, in which the women choose their husbands, making each spouse-to-be a single plate of food (often a traditional fish eye platter). Agreement is marked by the eating of the fish. Today, only twenty of the islands are inhabited and the others have only small populations of the Bijagós people. The southern islands are today a nature reserve. The islands of Bubaque, Bolama, and Caravela are the most populated and are visited by tourists. This continued even during the years of unrest in Guinea-Bissau a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1537668 ... Read more

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Guinea- Bissau. History of Guinea- Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, Politics of Guinea- Bissau, Regions of Guinea- Bissau, Sectors of Guinea- Bissau, Geography of Guinea- Bissau, Economy of Guinea- Bissau, Demographics of Guinea- Bissau, List of African writers by country, Music of Guinea- Bissau, Outline of Guinea- Bissau, Telecommunications in Guinea- Bissau, Foreign relations of Guinea- Bissau, Military of Guinea- Bissau, Transport in Guinea- Bissau, Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné- Bissau ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Guinea-Bissau," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Guinea-Bissau in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Guinea-Bissau when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Guinea-Bissau, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is located in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west. It covers nearly 37,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi) with an estimated population of 1,600,000. Formerly the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Guinea, upon independence, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with the Republic of Guinea. The country's per-capita gross domestic product is one of the lowest in the world. ... Read more

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Trends towards 'informalization' are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterized by the presence of an 'informal sector' but are now experiencing new waves of 'informalization'. Policies of liberalization and structural adjustment are both changing the conditions under which urban dwellers make a living and encouraging states to abdicate from responsibilities for popular welfare. In this context, urbanites increasingly rely on informal ways of income earning and of social security provisioning. This book is about processes of 'informalization' in the West African city of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau. It begins with a historical account of the way conditions of informality have evolved through the encounter of locally specific forms of informal relations with colonialism and the socialist era.

This is followed by an analysis of how disadvantaged groups who rely on informal ways of provisioning are faring in the context of contemporary changes. The study looks at both the informal income-generating activities and the social networks that urbanites engage in to sustain their income activities and their consumption. It seeks to assess whether these groups are coping with these wider changes or are becoming marginalized from networks of assistance and from activities that provide sufficient incomes. The social relations pervading access to support and livelihood resources as well as the informal rules governing such access are in focus. Forms of regulation in the informal sphere are also discussed. ... Read more