The Republic of Chad is a country in central Africa. In 1885 the French took over the territory, Chad was part of French Equatorial Africa. Became independent on August 11, 1960, a one-party system that resulted in political and social instability to which the Republican government. The most important economic activities are agriculture and livestock, cotton is the main export product, apart from that practice subsistence agriculture. Tourism in Chad. The Republic of Chad, is formed by several landscapes in the northern part is the hilly region in the central area are the desert and dry plains, southern lowlands formed by a large plateau surrounded by major rivers the Logone Chariy that feed the lake Chad. In the latter region is

The African-American gay male tradition in literature--though it has yet to receive adequate scholarly attention--consists of a substantial body of texts, spans a period of nearly seven decades, and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth-century. It is a rich and vibrant tradition; its vitality emerges at least in part from the complexities of the black gay lives that it articulates and affirms. It is an intensely political tradition that offers relentless and simultaneous challenges to black as well as white homophobiahomophobia, to straight as well as queerqueer racism. Yet its concerns extend far beyond social protest to engage a wide variety of issues that range from quintessentially African-American themes to universally human ones.