SECTION I: WESTERN AND CENTRAL SUDAN
1. Ibn Battuta: Mali
2. Antonius Malfante: Tawat and the Western Sudan Trade
3. Leo Africanus: The Western Sudan in the Sixteenth Century
4. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sadi: Songhay and the Moroccan Invasion
5. Imam Ahmad ibn Fartuwa: Idris Alawma and the Kanem Wars
6. The Kano Chronicle: Kings of Kano
7. Sim Abbas Soh: Abd al-Qadir in Senegalese Futa
8. Abd Allah ibn Muhammad: The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman dan Fodio
9. Al-Kanami: The Case Against the Jihad
10. Mungo Park: The Niger at Segu
11. Major Dixon Denham: Bornu and Sheik al-Kanami
12. René Caillié: The Trans-Saharan Caravan
13. Heinrich Barth: AI-Hajj Bashir, Kukawa, and Timbuktu
14. Ahmadu Hampate Ba: Sheik Ahmadu and Masina
15. Mohammadon Alion Tyam: The Life of al-Hajj Umar
16. Félix Éboué: Native Policy and Political Institutions in French Equatorial Africa
17. The Brazzaville Conference: The Political and Social Organization of the Colonies
18. Sékou Touré and General de Gaulle: France and West Africa
19. Al-Hajj Sir Ahmadu Bello: Political Leader and Traditional Ruler
20. Léopold Senghor: The Spirit of Civilization or the Laws of African Negro Culture
SECTION II: THE GUINEA COAST
21. Gomes Eannes de Azurara: The Discovery of Guinea
22. Anonymous: The Guinea Coast in the Sixteenth Century
23. John Barbot: Benin
24. William Bosman: Justice and Warfare at Axim
25. William Snelgrave: The Slaves Mutiny
26. Mercator Honestus: A Defense of the African Slave Trade
27. Captain Hugh Crow: Bonny
28. Archibald Dalzel: Dahomey and Its Neighbors
29. Thomas Fowell Buxton: The Principles of Abolition
30. Theodore Canot: Slaving in Liberia
31. Sir Harry Johnston: Jaja, Nana, and Resistance to British Control
32. Mary Kingsley: The Crown Colony System in West Africa
33. Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg: The Education of the African
34. Lord Lugard: Indirect Rule in Tropical Africa
35. Nnamdi Azikiwe: Nigeria and Independence
36. Kwame Nkrumah: The Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah