Introduction 1. The historical geography of Africa 2. Kingdoms on the Nile 3. The peoples of sub-Saharan Africa: society, culture and language 4. Crops, cows and iron 5. North-East Africa in the age of Aksum 6. Empires of the plains 7. East Africa and the Indian Ocean world 8. The lake plateau of East Africa 9. Societies and states of the West African forest 10. Kingdoms and trade in Central Africa 11.The peoples and states of Southern Africa 12. The arrival of the Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa 13. Diseases and crops: old and new 14. Slavery in Africa 15. The Atlantic slave trade 16. The Asian slave trade 17. Prelude to the European conquest of Africa 18. The European conquest of Africa 19. Africans, Dutch and the British in South Africa, 1480-1910 20. European colonial rule in Africa 21. The colonial legacy 22. Nationalism and the independence of colonial Africa 23. The union of South Africa and the apartheid state 24. A decade of hope 25. Cold War Africa 26. Africa at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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