| Introduction: People and history in modern Africa |
Dennis D. Cordell |
| José Manuel and Nbena in Benguela in the late 1810s : encounters with enslavement |
José C. Curto |
| Efusetan Aniwura of Ibadan (1820s-1874) : a woman who rose to the rank of a chief but whom male rivals destroyed |
Toyin Falola |
| Moka of Bioko (late 1820s-1899) : the chief who united a Central African island |
Ibrahim Sundiata |
| Hamet Gora Diop (1846-1910) : merchant and notable from Saint-Louis in Senegal |
Mamadou Diouf |
| Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) and the history of the Yorubas : Christianity and a new intelligentsia in West Africa |
Toyin Falola |
| Stories of Cape slavery and emancipation in the nineteenth century |
Pamela Scully |
| Mama Adolphina Unda (c. 1880-1931) : the salvation of a dynastic family and the foundation of Fipa Catholicism, 1898-1914 |
Marcia Wright |
| Colonial administrator Adolphe A.M. Taillebourg (1874-1934) : strict interpreter of the law or humanitarian? |
Issiaka Mandé |
| Louis Brody (1892-1951) of Cameroon and Mohammed Bayume Hussein (1904-1944) of former German East Africa : variety show performers and the Black community in Germany between the wars |
Andreas Eckert |
| Siti binti Saad (c. 1885-1950) : "Giving voice to the voiceless," Swahili music, and the global recording industry in the 1920s and 1930s |
Laura Fair |
| Maryan Muuse Boqor (b. 1938) and the women who inspired her : memories of a Mogadishu childhood |
Lidwien Kapteijns and Maryan Muuse Boqor |
| Wambui Waiyaki Otieno Mbugua (b. 1928) : gender politics in Kenya from the Mau Mau rebellion to the pro-democracy movement |
Cora Ann Presley |
| Tina (b. 1942) of Côte d'Ivoire : success in the masculine world of plantation managers |
Agnès Adjamagbo |
| Samba Sylla (b. 1948), Doulo Fofanna (b. 1948 or 1949), and Djénébou Traore (b. 1972) : the colonies come to France |
Dennis D. Cordell and Carolyn F. Sargent |
| Foday (b. ca. 1974) meets the rebels in 1991 : diamonds are not a boy's best friend |
Doug Henry |
| Introduction: People and history in modern Africa |
Dennis D. Cordell |
| José Manuel and Nbena in Benguela in the late 1810s : encounters with enslavement |
José C. Curto |
| Efusetan Aniwura of Ibadan (1820s-1874) : a woman who rose to the rank of a chief but whom male rivals destroyed |
Toyin Falola |
| Moka of Bioko (late 1820s-1899) : the chief who united a Central African island |
Ibrahim Sundiata |
| Hamet Gora Diop (1846-1910) : merchant and notable from Saint-Louis in Senegal |
Mamadou Diouf |
| Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) and the history of the Yorubas : Christianity and a new intelligentsia in West Africa |
Toyin Falola |
