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Index
Cover
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
Equivalences
AFRICA: A Biography of the Continent
Part One: The Founding Factors
CHAPTER 1: Building a Continent
CHAPTER 2: Transitions
CHAPTER 3: Missing Links
CHAPTER 4: Origins and Climate
Part Two:Humanity Emerging
CHAPTER 5: The Real World
CHAPTER 6: Footsteps
CHAPTER 7: The Cutting Edge
CHAPTER 8: In the Mind's Eye
CHAPTER 9: Cool Systems
CHAPTER 10: Out of Africa
Part Three:The African Options
CHAPTER 11: On Home Ground
CHAPTER 12: Word of Mouth
CHAPTER 13: Ancestral Economies
CHAPTER 14: The Human Potential
CHAPTER 15: Climate and Culture
CHAPTER 16: The Beginnings of Agriculture
CHAPTER 17: Renewable Resources
CHAPTER 18: The Pastoral Scene
CHAPTER 19: The Impact of Iron
Part Four: African Civilizations
CHAPTER 20: The Nile
CHAPTER 21: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
CHAPTER 22: Aksum
CHAPTER 23: Cities without Citadels
CHAPTER 24: Disease and Affliction
CHAPTER 25: Successful Harvests
CHAPTER 26: The Implications of Trade
CHAPTER 27: Outposts and Inroads
CHAPTER 28: Merrie Africa
CHAPTER 29: Bananas and Cattle
CHAPTER 30: Cattle and Gold
Part Five: Foreign Influences
CHAPTER 31: ‘I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys’1
CHAPTER 32: Portuguese Initiatives
CHAPTER 33: In Search of Prester John
CHAPTER 34: Harnessed to Europe
CHAPTER 35: Nothing Else to Sel
CHAPTER 36: The Atlantic Slave Trade
CHAPTER 37: African Slave Traders
CHAPTER 38: Africa Transformed
CHAPTER 39: The Aftermath
CHAPTER 40: The Climatic Context
Part Six: Settlers
CHAPTER 41: Settlers
CHAPTER 42: Black and White Frontiers
CHAPTER 43: Zulu Myths and Reality
CHAPTER 44: The Afrikaners
CHAPTER 45: Diamonds and Gold
Part Seven: The Scramble
CHAPTER 46: An Imperial Ambition
CHAPTER 47: An African King
CHAPTER 48: Drawing the Line
CHAPTER 49: Resistance
CHAPTER 50: Rebellion
CHAPTER 51: The Invention of Africa
Part Eight: The First Dance of Freedom
CHAPTER 52: The Emergent Elite
CHAPTER 53: Spoils of War
CHAPTER 54: First Dance of Freedom1
CHAPTER 55: Dreams and Nightmares
MAPS AND CHART
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Footnotes
PROLOGUE
PROLOGUE
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