Table of Contents

List of figures; Preface; 1. Northern Africa at the end of the Bronze Age; 2. Early food production in middle Africa; 3. Late Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Africa south of the Equator; 4. North-east Africa and the Greek-speaking world; 5. North Africa and its invaders from 500 B.C. till the Arab conquests; 6. Sub-Saharan West Africa in the Early Iron Age - 500 B.C. to A.D. 1000; 7. West-central Africa around the first millennium A.D.; 8. East Africa to about the eleventh century; 9. South-central Africa to the eleventh century; 10. South of the Limpopo and the Kalahari; 11. Muslim Egypt and Christian Nubia; 12. Christianity and Islam in north-east Africa; 13. The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan during the early Muslim period; 14. The western Maghrib and Sudan c. 700–1250; 15. Mali and its neighbours c. 1250–1450; 16. West Africa south of Hausaland c. 700–1400; 17. Eastern Africa and the outside world c. 1000–1400; 18. States and trading systems of central Africa c. 1000–1400; Index.