Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past
Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa
Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in eastern Africa
Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in southern Africa
Revival and reaction: north African Islam
Jihad: revolutions in western Africa
The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in eastern Africa
The lonely cross: missionary frontiers
The wandering white man: Africa explored
African adapting: conquest and partition
Empires of soil and service
Bush wars and distant shadows: Africa in global war (1)
"Pax colonia"? Notions of progress, manifestation of change
Hard times: protest, identity, and depression
Other people's battles (again): Africa in global war (2)
The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world
Conceiving and producing nations
Compromising conflict: routes to independence
Crowded house: friends, foes, and ideologies in the Cold War
Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence
Rectification, redemption and reality: contemporary Africa.
