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Exports: Peanuts, cotton, rice. Per capita income: $33. U.S. aid (1961): $2,500,000. Also aided by Reds. No industry; 1960 break with Senegal cut off Mali from its port. Signs of disillusion with Red barter deals. Syphilis rate 15%, as in most of ex-French Africa.
8. GUINEA (F.) Pop.: 2,900,000. Size: 95,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. College graduates: 60. No more cannibalism or ritual torture, but witch doctors flourish. Campaign against polygamy failed because of officials own insistence on multiple wives.
Political parties: 1. Voters: 99%. Marxist-minded President Sekou Touré carried on French policy of eliminating tribalism, has party official in almost every village. Despite assiduous voting record, people have little interest in national problems.
Exports: Fruit, coffee, bauxite. Per capita income: $58. U.S. aid (1961 ): $200,000. Rich, undeveloped forest, mineral resources. For $125 million Red aid, Guinea exports farm surplus to Communists at rock-bottom prices. Government is cool to West, but Soviet political meddling has made Touré think twice about Communism.
9. UPPER VOLTA (F.) Pop.: 3,635,000. Size: 113,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 3%. School attendance: 6%. College graduates: Under 10. Moslems: 17%. Less than 0.4% get secondary education.
Political Maturity Political parties: 1. Voters: 63%. Almost no understanding of democratic government. President Maurice Yameogo's governing party controls legislature.
Exports: Livestock. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $2,000,000. Firmly anti-Communist despite overtures from Ghana and Guinea.
1O. IVORY COAST (F.) Pop.: 3,300,000. Size: 125,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 16%. School attendance: 40%. College graduates: More than 600. One in every 225 citizens gets higher education. Abidjan is black Africa's most pleasantly Frenchified city.
Political parties: 1. Voters: 92%. Benevolent and anti-Communist Dictator Felix Houphouet-Boigny leads moderate Brazzaville bloc of twelve former French territories. Though unified by Houphouet, villagers have little interest in self-government.
Exports: Coffee, cocoa, bananas, timber. Per capita income: $160. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Ex-French Africa's strongest economy, world's third largest coffee producer. Houphouet is increasingly irked by U.S. aid to left-leaning neighbor, Ghana.
11. TOGO (F.) Pop.: 1,440,000. Size: 19,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 42%. College graduates: More than 100. Christians: 25%. Witchcraft, savage ritual still prevalent.
Political parties: 3. Voters: 42%. Government still based on tribalism. President Sylvanus Olympic avowedly neutralist but warm friend of West, faces resistance from Ghana-backed northern tribes.
Exports: Cocoa, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $73. U.S. aid (1961 ): $1,400,000. Needs foreign aid to develop phosphate industry. Main trade ties with France. Ghana's claims to Togo are threat to stabilitv.
12. DAHOMEY (F.) Pop.: 1,934,000. Size: 44,695 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 35%. College graduates: More than 100. Dahomey has sent many civil servants to neighboring countries. In wild north, tribes still emulate King Dan. Dahomey means literally "belly of Dan," after 17th century ruler who devoured victims.