The beginnings of African history
Africa in the ancient world
The states of the Western and Central Sudan
The cosmopolitan world of East Africa
The West African forest civilization
Pt. II: Revolutionary Africa
The genesis of modern Africa
Religion and empire in Western and Central Sudan
The Eastern Sudan-Egyptian expansionism and the Mahdist revolution
Population explosions in Southern Africa
West Africa and Europe's humanitarian revolution
Commerce and statecraft in Eastern and Central Africa
Part III: Colonial Africa
Early nationalist stirrings in West Africa
The Foundations of Progress and Poverty in Southern Africa
Colonialism and Nation Making in East Africa
Nationalist Frustrations in West Africa
The two societies of Southern Africa
Part IV: Independent Africa
Disintegrating citadels in the south
African cultural independence-Ideals and complexities.