Part 1: Lecture 1. Finding the "Lost Continent"
Lecture 2. Africa's many natural environments
Lecture 3. A virtual tour of the great land
Lecture 4. The cradle of humankind
Lecture 5. Crops, cattle, iron- taming a continent
Lecture 6. Kinship and community- societies take shape
Lecture 7. Like nothing else- the ancient Nile valley
Lecture 8. Soul and spirit- religion in Africa
Lecture 9. Ethiopia- Outpost of Christianity
Lecture 10. West Africa's "Golden Age"
Lecture 11. The Swahili commercial world
Lecture 12. Great Zimbabwe and the cities of the south.

Part 2: Lecture 13. The Atlantic slave trade- the scope
Lecture 14. The Atlantic slave trade- the impact
Lecture 15. South Africa- the Dutch Cape colony
Lecture 16. South Africa- The Zulu kingdom
Lecture 17. South Africa- The frontier and unification
Lecture 18. South Africa- diamonds and gold
Lecture 19. Prelude to the "scramble for Africa"
Lecture 20. European conquest and African resistance
Lecture 21. Colonial Africa- new realities
Lecture 22. Colonial Africa- Comparisons and change
Lecture 23. The lion awakens- the rise of nationalism
Lecture 24. The peaceful paths to independence.

Part 3: Lecture 25. The congo- promise and pain
Lecture 26. Segregation to apartheid in South Africa
Lecture 27. The armed struggles for independence
Lecture 28. The first taste of freedom
Lecture 29. The taste turns sour
Lecture 30. The world turns down- the "permanent crisis"
Lecture 31. A new dawn? The democratic revival
Lecture 32. The South African miracle
Lecture 33. The unthinkable- the Rwanda genocide
Lecture 34. The new plague- HIV/AIDS in Africa
Lecture 35. Zimbabwe- background to contemporary crisis
Lecture 36. Africa found.