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| Africa Today | p. iv |
| Understanding the Tropical African Environment and Ways of Life | p. 1 |
| Maps: Africa 1905 and Africa Today | p. 7 |
| Historical Background (pre-Colonial period) | |
| Prehistoric Africa | p. 8 |
| Early Civilizations of the Nile Valley and Mediterranean Sea | p. 9 |
| Early Christian Era Movements | p. 9 |
| The Kingdom of Ethiopia | p. 10 |
| The Spread of Islam | p. 10 |
| Arabs in East Africa | p. 10 |
| The Early Empires of West Africa | p. 10 |
| European Discovery and Exploration | p. 11 |
| Early Ethiopian and European Contact | p. 12 |
| The Arabs and Ottoman Turks in North Africa | p. 12 |
| European Settlers in South Africa | p. 13 |
| The Colonial Period | p. 14 |
| The Portuguese (about 1550) | p. 15 |
| The British (about 1660) | p. 15 |
| The French (about 1830) | p. 23 |
| The Americans (1835, see Liberia) | p. 28 |
| King Leopold II and the Belgians (1885) | p. 28 |
| The Spanish (1885) | p. 29 |
| The Germans (1885) | p. 29 |
| The South African mandate (1919) | p. 31 |
| The Italians (1927) | p. 31 |
| Coastal West Africa | |
| Benin | p. 34 |
| Cape Verde Islands | p. 259 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) | p. 38 |
| The Gambia | p. 42 |
| Ghana | p. 44 |
| Guinea | p. 47 |
| Guinea-Bissau | p. 51 |
| Liberia | p. 54 |
| Senegal | p. 60 |
| Sierra Leone | p. 64 |
| Togo | p. 67 |
| Central West Africa | |
| Cameroon | p. 70 |
| Central African Republic | p. 73 |
| Equatorial Guinea | p. 77 |
| Nigeria | p. 80 |
| Equatorial West Africa | |
| Angola | p. 86 |
| Burundi | p. 92 |
| Rwanda | p. 95 |
| Congo (Kinshasa) | p. 100 |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | p. 108 |
| Gabon | p. 110 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | p. 261 |
| Southern Africa | |
| Botswana | p. 114 |
| Lesotho | p. 116 |
| Malawi | p. 119 |
| Mozambique | p. 121 |
| Namibia | p. 125 |
| South Africa | p. 130 |
| Swaziland | p. 155 |
| Zambia | p. 157 |
| Zimbabwe | p. 160 |
| East African Island Nations | |
| Comoros | p. 266 |
| Madagascar | p. 168 |
| Mauritius | p. 171 |
| Seychelles | p. 264 |
| Eastern Africa | |
| Djibouti | p. 174 |
| Eritrea | p. 176 |
| Ethiopia | p. 179 |
| Kenya | p. 184 |
| Somalia | p. 188 |
| Tanzania | p. 194 |
| Uganda | p. 198 |
| South Sahara Africa | |
| Burkina Faso | p. 203 |
| Chad | p. 207 |
| Mali | p. 210 |
| Niger | p. 214 |
| Sudan | p. 217 |
| North Africa | |
| Algeria | p. 223 |
| Egypt | p. 229 |
| Libya | p. 237 |
| Mauritania | p. 243 |
| Morocco--(Western Sahara) | p. 248 |
| Tunisia | p. 254 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 269 |
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