CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: PRE-HISTORIC AFRICA
Geography Defines Man and Woman
Evolution of Man and Woman in Africa
Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa
Crops, Cows, and Iron
CHAPTER TWO: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL AFRICA
Dynastic Egypt, 3100-332 BCE
Kingdom of Kush: Corridor to Africa
806 BCE-350 CE
Bantu Migrations, 1000 BCE-17?? CE
Aksum, 200-700 CE
Christian States of Nubia
CHAPTER THREE: ISLAM, TRADE, AND STATES
Arabs and Islam
Trans-Saharan Trade
Empires of the Plains
East African Coast and the Indian Ocean World
City-States of the African Coast
Swahili
Niger Delta and Igbo
Kingdoms of the Forest and the Savanna
State-Building in the Interior of East Africa
States of the West African Forest
Yoruba
Oyo
Benin
Asante
States of East Central Africa
Luba
Lunda
Lozi
States of West Central Africa
Kongo
Ndongo
States of Southern Africa
Mapungubwe
Zimbabwe
Mutapa
CHAPTER FOUR: EUROPEANS, SLAVERY, AND THE SLAVE TRADE
Portuguese Explorations of the West and East
African Coasts
Slavery in Africa
Atlantic Slave Trade
Asian Slave Trade
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Red Sea Slave Trade
East Africa and the Indian Ocean Slave
Trade
Conclusion
CHAPTER FIVE: EUROPEAN CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Prelude to the Conquest
European Conquest of African States from the Sahel to the Southern Savanna
European Conquest of Southern Africa
European Colonial Rule in Africa
Colonial Legacy
CHAPTER SIX: INDEPENDENT AFRICA
Nationalism and Independence
Apartheid State in South Africa
Ethnicity and Insurgency in Cold War Africa
Africa at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century