What is African history? / John Edward Philips
Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech Mcintosh
Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehert
Physical anthropology and African history / S.O.Y. Keita
The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian
Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige
Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper
Arabic sources for African history / John Thornton
European documents and African history / John Thornton
Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola
Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert
African economic history: approaches to research / Masao Yoshida
Signs of time, shapes of thought: the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal
Methodologies in Yoruba oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre L. Badejo
Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi
Africa and world-systems analysis: a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin
"What Africa has given America": African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway
History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
Writing about women: approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon
Writing African history / John Edward Philips.