African History in Maps

I Physical Geography I
2 Peoples of Africa 2
3 North-West Africa and North-East Africa (Egypt and
the Nile Valley and Ethiopia), I rth to 14th
centuries 4
4 North-West Africa, reth to r Sth centuries 6
5 North-East Africa (Egypt and the Nile Valley and
Ethiopia), r oth to r Sth centuries 8
6 West Africa to about 1600 10
7 First European contacts with West Africa, c. 1450 to c.
1800 12
8 West African states, 1600 to 1800 14
9 The Atlantic slave trade to 1808 16
10 Empires and kingdoms in Central and Eastern Africa,
c. 1400 to c. 1800 18
I I The East African coast and the Indian Ocean, 700 to
1500 20
12 The European powers in the Indian Ocean and the
Portuguese penetration of Africa, 1500 to 1800 22
13 The East African coast and Madagascar, 1500 to
1840 24
14 Southern Africa, 1652 to 1806 26
15 North-East Africa in the roth century 28
16 The Atlantic slave trade and abolition in the r oth
century 30
17 West African states and economic change in the rorh
century 32
18 European Explorers and missionaries in West Africa,
1792 to 1890 34
19 The Mfecane in Southern, Central and Eastern Africa,
c. 1818 to c. 1870 36
20 Trade and politics in Central and Eastern Africa, 1800
to 1890 38
2 I European explorers and the missionary penetration of
Central and Eastern Africa, 1840 to 1890 40
22 European expansion in Southern Africa, 1806 to
1870 42
23 South Africa, 1870 to 1910 44
24 North Africa and European imperialism, 1832 to
1936 46
25 ~estAfricaandEuropeanPartition, 1875 to 1914 48
26 The European Partition of Central and Eastern Africa,
1875 to 1914 50
27 African reactions to European occupation in Eastern,
Central and Southern Africa, 1880 to 1920 52
28 African reactions to the European occupation in West
Africa, 1880 to 1920 54
29 Colonial boundaries in Africa, 1919 56
30 Economic change in North Africa during the colonial
period 58
3 I Economic change in West Africa during the colonial
period 60
32 Economic change in Southern, Central and Eastern
Africa during the colonial period 62
33 South Africa, political and economic, 1910 to
1980 64
34 Progress to independence, 1945 to 1980 66
35 The new Africa 68
36 Economic changes since independence 70
Index 73