1. Sell the silver, steal the gold: Mobutu and Zaire.
2. The skull beneath the skin: Angola and the cold war.
3. Great game, dirty game: the United States and Liberia.
4. Whispers and screams: tribes and armies in Burundi.
5. A city on the lake: the creation of Hutu and Tutsi.
6. Juggling the juntas: Zaire, Nigeria, and military rule.
7. The deadly harvest: Liberia at war.
8. Myths, chiefs, and churches: Rwanda.
10. The spit of the toad: Zaire, Kenya, and the abuse of tradition.
11. "Rogue" states and radicals: the United States and Sudan.
12. The Mogadishu line: the United Nations and Somalia.
13. France, Africa, and a place called Fashoda.
Epilogue: The center cannot hold.
