Africa: a biography of the continent

Founding factors: Building a continent

Transitions

Missing links

Origins and climate

Humanity emerging: Real world

Footsteps

Cutting edge

In the mind's eye

Cool systems

Out of Africa

African options: On home ground

Word of mouth

Ancestral economies

Human potential

Climate and culture

Beginnings of agriculture

Renewable resources

Pastoral scene

Impact of iron

African civilizations: Nile

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Aksum

Cities without citadels

Disease and affliction

Successful harvests

Implications of trade

Outposts and inroads

Merrie Africa

Bananas and cattle

Cattle and gold

Foreign influences: "I speak of Africa and golden joys"

Portuguese initiatives

In search of Prester John

Harnessed to Europe

Nothing else to sell

The Atlantic slave trade

African slave traders

Africa transformed

Aftermath

Climatic context

Settlers: Settlers

Black and white frontiers

Zulu myths and reality

Afrikaners

Diamonds and gold

Scramble: Imperial ambition

African king

Drawing the line

Resistance

Rebellion

Invention of Africa

First dance of freedom: Emergent elite

Spoils of war

First dance of freedom

Dreams and nightmares.