Africa up to 1500 C.E. Physical context of African history: geography and environment
Finding food and talking about it: the first 100,000 years
Settled life: food production, technology, and migrations
North and northeast Africa in early world history
Africa and the early Christian world
North and west Africa and the spread of Islam
East Africa and the advent of Islam
Africa since 1500 C.E. Slavery and the creation of the Atlantic world
West and west-central Africa: 1500-1880
North Africa and the Soudan: 1500-1880
Southern Africa, 1500-1870
Colonialism and African resistance
Economic change in modern Africa: forced integration into the world system
Political change in the time of colonialism
African culture in the modern world
Politics in the era of decolonization and independence