I would second that. Take a GPS and even take a spare but only use it for checking where you are on the map and what direction you need to go next. Trying to read it whilst you are travelling is not easy anyway and checking your position and heading every so often is sufficient. On our trip through Mori, Mali, Cote DIvoire to Ghana we used the GPS often once an hour, very occasionally every quarter of an hour when we had lost the track completely or it was going in a different direction to what was on the map and occasionally not at all except to record stops for posterity. You will need as good maps as you can get though. We generally used the Russian maps and they were fine although out of date and inaccurate in places. Although we could have put the maps into the computer and connected the GPS to it to get live positioning in practice it was much easier and better to just plot your position in pencil on the map every so often. Go for a basic GPS.
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