Introduction / Richard Gray -- Egypt, the Funj and Darfur / P.M. Holt -- The central Sahara and Sudan / H.J. Fisher -- North-West Africa: from the Maghrib to the fringes of the forest / Nehemia Levtzion -- The Guinea coast / Walter Rodney -- Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi / David Birmingham -- Southern Africa and Madagascar / Shula Marks and Richard Gray -- Eastern Africa / Edward A. Alpers and Christopher Ehret -- Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa / M. Abir -- Africa in Europe and the Americas / Walter Rodney