Start ArcView , Open a new project, Create a View, New

Set the Working Directory to where your data is located. 
 

Choose Properties from the View pull-down menu, and rename the view to "Fires, Landcover Types and Population Densities in Africa".  

Select "decimal degrees" from the Map Units pull down list.  

Select "kilometers" from the Distance Units pull down list.  

Click on Projection and check to make sure the Category is "Projections of the World" and the Type is "Geographic". 

Add the following themes to the view from the esri_dat directory:  
    country.shp - Outlines of countries in Africa. 
    landuse.shp - Land use and land cover in Africa. 
    popden.shp - Population density in Africa. 
 

Click the Add Theme  button.  

Navigate the folder where your data is stored.

Add the firept.shp file.  This file was derived from every fire that were observed from satellite from October 1994 through March 1995.  

Click OK to add this theme to the view. 

Rename the landuse.shp theme to Landcover  
Rename the popden.shp theme to Population Densities  
Rename the country.shp theme to Countries  
Rename the firept.shp theme to Fires 

Double-click on the Population Density theme to bring up the Legend Editor.  
In the Legend Editor window select "Graduated Color" as the Legend Type.  
Select "Density" for the Classification Field.  
Select "Yellow Monochromatic" for the Color Range.  
Click Apply in the Legend Editor to apply your changes to the view.  
Leave the Legend Editor open. 

Double-click on the Landcover theme.  
In the Legend Editor window select "Unique Value" as the Legend Type.  
Select "Zone" for the Values Field.  
Select "Equatorial Rainforest" for the Color Range.  
Click Apply in the Legend Editor to apply your changes to the view.  
Leave the Legend Editor open. 

Change the Colors, Sizes, and Symbols of the Themes.   
Countries theme: Make the theme transparent.  Do this via the Legend Editor.

Select the paint bucket icon.   and select the upper left (white) box.  Click Apply.  
 

Double-click on the Fires theme to access the Legend Editor. 
In the Legend Editor window, click on Load.   
Find the firept.avl file in the folder where your data is stored.   

Click Apply in the Image Colormap window.  
Close the Legend Editor. 

Arrange the themes in your view window in the following order:  
    Fires  
    Landcover  
    Poulation Densities  
    Countries 

Click on the raised box to the left of the Theme names to make a check mark and see the coverages displayed in the View window. You may need to maximize or resize the ArcView window and the View window to see the entire view.  

You will need to alternate turning on the Landcover theme and the Population Density theme. The fires in the Fires theme should be red and the rest of the image should be transparent. 

Add a new view to the project and rename the view "Fires in Africa". 

Repeat steps 4 and 9 for this view: Add the firept.shp theme and load the firept.avl legend as before to display the fires as red.

Create and a print a Layout of the Fires, Population Density and Countries.  

Create and a print a Layout of the Fires, Land Cover and Countries.