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| List of Maps | |
| Algeria | p. 18 |
| Angola | p. 26 |
| Archaeology of North and West Africa | p. 43 |
| Archaeology of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa | p. 49 |
| Benin | p. 80 |
| Botswana | p. 91 |
| Burkina Faso | p. 98 |
| Burundi | p. 104 |
| Cameroon | p. 115 |
| Central African Republic | p. 123 |
| Colonialism in Africa | p. 152 |
| Congo (Kinshasa) | p. 173 |
| Egypt | p. 15 |
| Ethiopia | p. 29 |
| Gabon | p. 79 |
| Ghana | p. 93 |
| Guinea | p. 107 |
| Origins of Modern Humans | p. 143 |
| Ivory Coast | p. 167 |
| Kenya | p. 179 |
| Liberia | p. 8 |
| Libya | p. 12 |
| Madagascar | p. 37 |
| Malawi | p. 47 |
| Mali | p. 51 |
| Mauritania | p. 70 |
| Minerals and Metals | p. 77 |
| Morocco | p. 91 |
| Mozambique | p. 97 |
| Namibia | p. 121 |
| Niger | p. 133 |
| Nigeria | p. 138 |
| Nile River | p. 147 |
| Trade Routes and Technology | p. 154 |
| Rwanda | p. 216 |
| Senegal | p. 12 |
| Sierra Leone | p. 22 |
| Slavery | p. 28 |
| Somalia | p. 41 |
| South Africa | p. 47 |
| Sudan | p. 65 |
| Sudanic Empires 1200-1600 | p. 72 |
| Tanzania | p. 82 |
| Togo | p. 93 |
| Transportation | p. 107 |
| Early European Travel and Exploration | p. 112 |
| Tunisia | p. 122 |
| Uganda | p. 128 |
| National Parks and Wildlife Game Preserves | p. 147 |
| World War II | p. 157 |
| Zambia | p. 163 |
| Zimbabwe | p. 170 |
| Color Plates | |
| Peoples and Cultures | |
| The Land and Its History | |
| Art and Architecture | |
| Daily Life | |
| Preface | |
| A Time Line of Africa | |
| Abidjan | |
| Accra | |
| Achebe, Chinua | |
| Addis Ababa | |
| Africa, Study of | |
| Afrikaner Republics | |
| Age and Aging | |
| Agriculture | |
| AIDS | |
| Akan Region | |
| Aksum | |
| Alexandria | |
| Algeria | |
| Algiers | |
| Amhara | |
| Amin Dada, Idi | |
| Angola | |
| Animals, Domestic | |
| Annan, Kofi | |
| Antananarivo | |
| Apartheid | |
| Arabs in Africa | |
| Archaeology and Prehistory | |
| Architecture | |
| Art | |
| Asante | |
| Asantewa, Yaa | |
| Askiya Muhammad I | |
| Asma'u, Nana | |
| Atlas Mountains | |
| Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi | |
| Bambara | |
| Banda, Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu | |
| Bantu Peoples | |
| Barghash ibn Sa'id | |
| Barth, Heinrich | |
| Bello, Ahmadu | |
| Ben Bella, Ahmed | |
| Benin | |
| Benin City | |
| Berbers | |
| Beti, Mongo | |
| Biko, Steve | |
| Blyden, Edward Wilmot | |
| Body Adornment and Clothing | |
| Bokassa, Jean-Bedel | |
| Bornu | |
| Botswana | |
| Boumedienne, Houari | |
| Boundaries in Africa | |
| Bourguiba, Habib | |
| Braide, Garrick Sokari | |
| Brazzaville | |
| Brink, Andre | |
| Burkina Faso | |
| Burton, Sir Richard Francis | |
| Burundi | |
| Busia, Kofi A. | |
| Cabinda | |
| Cabral, Amilcar Lopes | |
| Cairo | |
| Calendars and Time | |
| Camara Laye | |
| Cameroon | |
| Canary Islands | |
| Cape Coloured People | |
| Cape Town | |
| Cape Verde | |
| Carthage | |
| Central African Federation | |
| Central African Republic | |
| Cetshwayo | |
| Chad | |
| Childhood and Adolescence | |
| Chilembwe, John | |
| Chinese in Africa | |
| Christianity in Africa | |
| Cinema | |
| Cities and Urbanization | |
| Class Structure and Caste | |
| Cleopatra | |
| Climate | |
| Coetzee, J. M. | |
| Colenso, John William | |
| Colonialism in Africa | |
| Comoro Islands | |
| Conakry | |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | |
| Congo (Kinshasa) | |
| Congo River | |
| Copts | |
| Correia, Mae Aurelia | |
| Crafts | |
| Creoles | |
| Crowther, Samuel Ajayi | |
| Dakar | |
| Dance | |
| Dar es Salaam | |
| Death, Mourning, and Ancestors | |
| De Klerk, Frederik Willem | |
| Deserts and Drought | |
| Development, Economic and Social | |
| Diagne, Blaise | |
| Diaspora, African | |
| Dingiswayo | |
| Diop, Alioune | |
| Diop, Cheikh Anta | |
| Diseases | |
| Divination and Oracles | |
| Djibouti | |
| Du Bois, W. E. B. | |
| Eboue, Adolphe-Felix-Sylvestre | |
| Economic History | |
| Index | |
| A Time Line of Africa | |
| Ecosystems | |
| Education | |
| Egypt, Ancient | |
| Egypt, Modern | |
| Ekwensi, Cyprian | |
| Emin Pasha | |
| Energy and Energy Resources | |
| Equatorial Guinea | |
| Equiano, Olaudah | |
| Eritrea | |
| Ethiopia | |
| Ethiopian Orthodox Church | |
| Ethnic Groups and Identity | |
| Ethnic Groups and Peoples | |
| European Communities | |
| Family | |
| Fanon, Frantz | |
| Fasiladas | |
| Festivals and Carnivals | |
| Fishing | |
| Food and Drink | |
| Forests and Forestry | |
| Freetown | |
| French Equatorial Africa | |
| French West Africa | |
| Fugard, Athol | |
| Fulani | |
| Gabon | |
| Galawdewos | |
| Gama, Vasco da | |
| Gambia, The | |
| Garvey, Marcus Mosiah | |
| Gender Roles and Sexuality | |
| Genocide and Violence | |
| Ghana | |
| Gikuyu | |
| Global Politics and Africa | |
| Gordimer, Nadine | |
| Gordon, Charles George | |
| Government and Political Systems | |
| Guinea | |
| Guinea-Bissau | |
| Haile Selassie I | |
| Harare | |
| Hassan II | |
| Hausa | |
| Head, Bessie | |
| Healing and Medicine | |
| Health Care | |
| Herero | |
| History of Africa | |
| Horton, James Africanus | |
| Houphouet-Boigny, Felix | |
| Houses and Housing | |
| Human Rights | |
| Humans, Early | |
| Hunger and Famine | |
| Hunting and Gathering | |
| Ibadan | |
| Ibn Battuta | |
| Igbo | |
| Independence Movements | |
| Indian Communities | |
| Initiation Rites | |
| Irrigation and Flood Control | |
| Islam in Africa | |
| Ivory Coast | |
| Ivory Trade | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Johnson, Samuel | |
| Judaism in Africa | |
| Kabarega | |
| Kadalie, Clements | |
| Kagwa, Apolo | |
| Kalahari Desert | |
| Kanemi, Muhammad al-Amin al- | |
| Kaunda, Kenneth | |
| Kenya | |
| Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Khama III and Seretse Khama | |
| Khartoum | |
| Khoisan | |
| Kimbangu, Simon | |
| Kimpa Vita | |
| Kings and Kingship | |
| Kingsley, Mary Henrietta | |
| Kinshasa | |
| Kinship | |
| Kongo | |
| Kourouma, Ahmadou | |
| Kruger, Paul | |
| La Guma, Alex | |
| Labor | |
| Lagos | |
| Land Ownership | |
| Languages | |
| Laws and Legal Systems | |
| Index | |
| A Time Line of Africa | |
| Leakey Family | |
| Lebanese Communities | |
| Lenshina, Alice | |
| Leo Africanus | |
| Lesotho | |
| Liberia | |
| Libya | |
| Literacy | |
| Literature | |
| Livestock Grazing | |
| Livingstone, David | |
| Lobengula | |
| Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry | |
| Lumumba, Patrice Emery | |
| Luo | |
| Lusaka | |
| Lutuli (Luthuli), Albert | |
| Maasai | |
| Macaulay, Herbert Samuel Heelas | |
| Machel, Samora Moises | |
| Madagascar | |
| Maghreb | |
| Mahdi, al- | |
| Maherero, Samuel | |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | |
| Maji Maji | |
| Malawi | |
| Mali | |
| Mami Wata | |
| Mandela, Nelson | |
| Mansa Musa | |
| Mansur, al- | |
| Maps and Mapmaking | |
| Maranke, John | |
| Markets | |
| Marriage Systems | |
| Masks and Masquerades | |
| Mau Mau | |
| Mauritania | |
| Mauritius | |
| Mboya, Tom | |
| Mengistu Haile Mariam | |
| Menilek II | |
| Meroe | |
| Minerals and Mining | |
| Missions and Missionaries | |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | |
| Mogadishu | |
| Moi, Daniel arap | |
| Mondlane, Eduardo Chivambo | |
| Money and Banking | |
| Morocco | |
| Moshoeshoe I | |
| Mossi | |
| Mozambique | |
| Mubarak, Hosni | |
| Mugabe, Robert | |
| Muhammad V | |
| Museveni, Yoweri | |
| Music and Song | |
| Musical Instruments | |
| Mutapa | |
| Mutesa II, Frederick | |
| Mvemba Nzinga | |
| Mythology | |
| Mzilikazi | |
| Nairobi | |
| Namibia | |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdel | |
| Nationalism | |
| Ndebele | |
| Negritude | |
| Neocolonialism | |
| Neto, Augustinho | |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | |
| Niger | |
| Niger River and Delta | |
| Nigeria | |
| Nile River and Delta | |
| Nkrumah, Kwame | |
| Nongqawuse | |
| North Africa: Geography and Population | |
| North Africa: History and Cultures | |
| Nubia | |
| Nujoma, Samuel Shafiishuna | |
| Number Systems | |
| Nwapa, Flora | |
| Nyerere, Julius Kambarage | |
| Obote, Milton | |
| Olympio, Sylvanus Epiphanio | |
| Oral Tradition | |
| Organization of African Unity | |
| Osei Tutu | |
| Paton, Alan | |
| Peasantry and Land Settlement | |
| Pereira, Aristides Maria | |
| Pests and Pest Control | |
| Pharaohs | |
| Photography | |
| Plaatje, Sol | |
| Plantation Systems | |
| Plants: Varieties and Uses | |
| Popular Culture | |
| Population | |
| Prempeh, Agyeman | |
| Prophetic Movements | |
| Proverbs and Riddles | |
| Publishing | |
| Pygmies | |
| Pyramids | |
| Qaddafi, Muammar al- | |
| Quaque, Philip | |
| Queens and Queen Mothers | |
| Radama I | |
| Radio and Television | |
| Ranavalona, Mada | |
| Rawlings, Jerry | |
| Refugees | |
| Religion and Ritual | |
| Reunion | |
| Rhodes, Cecil John | |
| Rock Art | |
| Roman Africa | |
| Rwanda | |
| Index | |
| A Time Line of Africa | |
| Sadat, Anwar | |
| Sahara Desert | |
| Sahel | |
| Sa'id ibn Sultan | |
| Saint Helena | |
| Samba, Cheri | |
| Sao Tome and Principe | |
| Sarbah, John Mensah | |
| Schreiner, Olive | |
| Secret Societies | |
| Sembene, Ousmane | |
| Senegal | |
| Senghor, Leopold Sedar | |
| Seychelles | |
| Shaaban Robert | |
| Shaka Zulu | |
| Shembe, Isaiah | |
| Shona | |
| Sierra Leone | |
| Slave Trade | |
| Slavery | |
| Smuts, Jan Christiaan | |
| Sobhuza I and II | |
| Somalia | |
| South Africa | |
| Southern Africa, History | |
| Soyinka, Wole | |
| Spirit Possession | |
| Sports and Recreation | |
| Stanley, Henry Morton | |
| Sudan | |
| Sudanic Empires of Western Africa | |
| Suez Canal | |
| Sufism | |
| Sundjata Keita | |
| Sunni Ali | |
| Susenyos | |
| Swahili | |
| Swaziland | |
| Taboo and Sin | |
| Tafawa Balewa, Abubakar | |
| Tanzania | |
| Tewodros | |
| Theater | |
| Thuku, Harry | |
| Timbuktu | |
| Tinabu, Madame | |
| Tippu Tip | |
| Togo | |
| Tombalbaye, Francois-Ngarta | |
| Toure, Samori | |
| Toure, Sekou | |
| Tourism | |
| Trade | |
| Transportation | |
| Travel and Exploration | |
| Tribalism | |
| Tshombe, Moise Kapenda | |
| Tuareg | |
| Tubman, William Vacanarat Shadrach | |
| Tunisia | |
| Tutu, Desmond Mpilo | |
| Tutuola, Amos | |
| Uganda | |
| Umar ibn Sa'id Tal | |
| Unions and Trade Associations | |
| United Nations in Africa | |
| Uthman dan Fodio | |
| Van Riebeeck, Jan | |
| Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch | |
| Vodun | |
| Warfare | |
| West African Trading Settlements | |
| Western Sahara | |
| Wildlife and Game Parks | |
| Witbooi, Hendrik | |
| Witchcraft and Sorcery | |
| Wolof | |
| Women in Africa | |
| World Wars I and II | |
| Writing Systems | |
| Xhosa | |
| Yoruba | |
| Zambezi River | |
| Zambia | |
| Zanzibar | |
| Zara Ya'iqob | |
| Zimbabwe | |
| Zulu | |
| Suggested Readings | |
| Photo Credits | |
| Index | |
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