LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SECTION 1:

Kwame Nkrumah and Gamal Abdul Nasser

Kwame Nkrumah

Gamal Abdul Nasser

Patrice Lumumba with U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold

Patrice Lumumba

Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Ferhat Abbas

Ahmed Ben Bella

Nigerian (Federal) soldiers

Ian Smith

SECTION 2:

J. B. Vorster and Ian Smith

Portuguese troops in Luanda, Angola, August 1975

MPLA Child Soldiers

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Jim Callaghan and Idi Amin

J. B. Vorster and K. D. Kaunda

Tanzam Railway

Helen Suzman

J. B. Vorster

Idi Amin

Bantu Housing

Black Sash protest

SECTION 3:

Robert Mugabe and Lord Soames

Robert Mugabe

Joshua Nkomo

Agostinho Neto

Jonas Savimbi

Hastings Banda

Woman of Lesotho

Lesotho landscape

P. W. Botha and his wife

Andries Treurnicht

Olusegun Obasanjo

SECTION 4:

Sam Nujoma and F. W. de Klerk

President Sam Nujoma’s guard of honour

Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Muammar Gaddafi and Jerry Rawlings

Nelson Mandela and Joaquim Chissano

Thabo Mbeki

Olusegun Obasanjo, Thabo Mbeki and Tony Blair

SECTION 5:

Hu Jintao and Umaru Yar’Adua

Workers at the construction of the African Union buildings

Young miners, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jacob Zuma and Joseph S. Blatter

Egyptian protester

African migrants

French troops, northern Mali

Catherine Samba-Panza