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Early prehistory of Africa -- Later prehistory : farming and pastoralism in tropical Africa and ancient Egypt -- The impact of iron in North and West Africa -- The early Iron Age in Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa -- North and North-eastern Africa to 1000 CE -- Trans-Saharan trade and the kingdom of ancient Ghana -- Islam and the Sudanic states of West Africa -- Eastern Africa to the sixteenth century -- Trading towns of the East African coast to the sixteenth century -- Later Iron Age states and societies of Central and Southern Africa to 1600 -- North and North-east Africa to the eighteenth century -- The Atlantic slave trade, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- West African states and societies to the eighteenth century -- Central and Eastern Africa to the eighteenth century -- Southern Africa to the eighteenth century -- West Africa in the nineteenth century and the ending of the slave trade -- Central and East Africa in the nineteenth century -- Pre-industrial Southern Africa in the nineteenth century -- North and North-east Africa in the nineteenth century -- Prelude to empire in tropical Africa -- The European "scramble," colonial conquest, and African resistance in East, North-central, and West Africa -- Industrialisation, colonial conquest, and African resistance in South-central and Southern Africa -- Consolidation of empire : the early period of colonial rule -- Africa between the wars : the high tide of colonial rule -- The Second World War and Africa -- The winning of independence (1) -- The winning of independence (2) -- Africa since independence (1) -- Africa since independence (2) -- Africa and the new millennium.