Section I: Western and central Sudan / by Robert O. Collins. Mali / Ibn Battuta
Tawat and the western Sudan trade / Antonius Malfante
The western Sudan in the sixteenth century / Leo Africanus
Songhay and the Moroccan invasion / Abd-al-Rahman al-Sadi
Idris Alawma and the Kanem wars / Iman Ahmad ibn Fartuwa
Kings of Kano / The Kano Chronicle
Abd al-Qadir in Senegalese Futa / Sire Abbas Soh
The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman dan Fodio / Abd Allah ibn Muhammad
The case against the Jihad / Al-Kanami
The Niger at Sego / Mungo Park
Bornu and Sheik al-Kanami / Major Dixon Denham
The trans-Saharan caravan / René Caillié
Al-Hajj Bashir, Kukawa, and Timbuktu / Heinrich Barth
Sheik Ahmadu and Masina / Ahmadu Hampate Ba
The life of al-Hajj Umar / Mohammadon Alion Tyam
Native policy and political institutions in French Equatorial Africa / Féliz Eboué
The political and social organization of the colonies / The Brazzaville Conference
France and West Africa / Sékou Touré and General de Gaulle
Political leader and traditional ruler / Al-Hajj Sir Ahmadu Bello
The spirit of civilization or the laws of African Negro culture / Léopold Senghor


Section II: The Guinea Coast / Robert O. Collins. The discovery of Guinea / Gomes Eannes de Azurara
The Guinea Coast in the sixteenth century / Anonymous
Benin / John Barbot
Justice and warfare at Axim / William Bosman
The slaves mutiny / William Snelgrave
A defense of the African slave trade / Mercator Honestus
Bonny / Captain Hugh Crow
Dahomey and its neighbors / Archibald Dalzel
The principles of abolition / Thomas Fowell Buxton
Slaving in Liberia / Theodore Canot
Jaja, Nana, and resistance to British control / Sir Harry Johnston
The crown colony system in West Africa / Mary Kingsley
The education of the African / Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg
Indirect rule in tropical Africa / Lord Lugard
Nigeria and independence / Nnamdi Azikiwe
The axioms of Kwame Nkrumah / Kwame Nkrumah.