Africa and Africans keeps a watchful eye on what has happened in Africa and on what has happened in the rest
of the world that shapes how people look at Africa. The world�s perception of Africa is an entanglement of myth
and reality�both reflecting and changing with the times. This highly informative yet concise volume, written by
two authors intimately familiar with Africa, presents the facts about African society�past and present. Students
wishing to explore Africa�s historical events and rich traditions will discover that Africans want to keep what
they value in their old way of life as they find themselves in an emerging global culture.
Table of Contents
Part I. AFRICAN BACKGROUND
1. Myths and Facts
2. The African Continent
3. Mapping Africa
Part II. AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS
4. African Arts
5. African Families
6. Land and Labor
7. African Politics and Courts
8. African Trade and Markets
9. African Religion
Part III. AFRICAN HISTORY
10. The Peopling of Africa
11. Farms and Iron
12. Africa in World History
13. The End of Isolation
14. The Era of the Slave Trade
15. Secondary Empires of the Pre-Colonial Century
16. Commerce and Islam: The Dual Revolution in West Africa
17. Forms and Conditions of Conquest
18. The Colonial Era
19. Toward Independence
