Africans

Preface to the third edition; 1. The frontiersmen of mankind; 2. The emergence of food-producing communities; 3. The impact of metals; 4. Christianity and Islam; 5. Colonising society in Western Africa; 6. Colonising society in Eastern and Southern Africa; 7. The Atlantic slave trade; 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial invasion; 10. Colonial society and African nationalism; 11. Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994; 12. Independent Africa, 1956-95; 13. Recovery?