BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EARLY HISTORY -- MUSLIMS IN WESTERN AFRICA -- THE STATES OF THE SUDAN -- THE EARLY KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES OF THE WESTERN SUDAN -- THE WIDER INFLUENCE OF THE SUDANIC KINGDOMS -- CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNINGS OF EUROPEAN ACTIVITY -- THE RISE OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE -- ANGLO -FRENCH COMPETITION -- THE SLAVE -TRADE ERA -- PRE-EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADING -- THE SOUTHWARD EXPANSION OF OYO -- CHAPTER 3 PRE-COLONIZATION DEVELOPMENTS: ISLAMIC REVOLUTION AND INCREASING EUROPEAN ACTIVITY -- THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN THE WESTERN SUDAN -- DOMINANCE OF THE TUAREG AND AMAZIGH -- THE FIRST FULANI JIHAD -- THE JIHAD OF USMAN DAN FODIO -- THE JIHAD OF 'UMAR TAL -- THE GUINEA COASTLANDS AND THE EUROPEANS -- THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY -- THE BRITISH PRESENCE IN SIERRA LEONE -- THE BRITISH IN THE NIGER DELTA -- THE FALL OF THE AFRICAN KINGDOMS -- CHAPTER 4 COLONIAL ERA -- COLONIZATION -- EFFECT OF LOCAL CONDITIONS -- FRENCH AREAS OF INTEREST -- BRITISH AREAS OF INTEREST -- PROBLEMS OF MILITARY CONTROL -- INITIAL DIFFICULTY OF EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATION -- COLONIAL RULE -- FRENCH TERRITORIES -- BRITISH TERRITORIES -- DECOLONI ZATION AND THE REGAINING OF INDEPENDENCE -- THE EMERGENCE OF AFRICAN LEADERS -- CHAPTER 5 BENIN -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE SLAVE TRADE -- THE KINGDOM OF DAHOMEY -- THE FRENCH CONQUEST AND COLONIAL RULE -- DECOLONI ZATION AND INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 6 BURKINA FASO -- EARLY HISTORY -- EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 7 CAMEROON -- EARLY HISTORY -- GERMAN KAMERUN -- BRITISH CAMEROONS AND FRENCH CAMEROUN -- MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE -- AHIDJO PRESIDENCY -- CAMEROON UNDER BIYA -- TRANSITION -- CONSOLIDATION AND CHALLENGE -- FOREIGN RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 8 CAPE VERDE -- EARLY HISTORY -- STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 9 CHAD -- EARLY HISTORY.

FROM THE 16TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY -- FRENCH ADMINISTRATION -- INDEPENDENCE -- CIVIL WAR -- CHAPTER 10 CÔTE D'IVOIRE -- EARLY HISTORY -- PRECOLONIAL KINGDOMS -- ARRIVAL OF EUROPEANS -- MARCH TOWARD INDEPENDENCE -- CÔTE D'IVOIRE SINCE INDEPENDENCE -- HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY'S RULE -- CIVIL WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH -- CHAPTER 11 EQUATORIAL GUINEA -- EARLY HISTORY -- SPANISH GUINEA -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 12 THE GAMBIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- EUROPEAN COLONIZATION -- BRITISH PROTECTORATE -- INDEPENDENCE -- POLITICAL CHANGE -- CHAPTER 13 GHANA -- EARLY HISTORY -- TRADE ROUTES OF ISLAM -- MIGRATIONS -- CONTACT WITH EUROPE AND ITS EFECTS -- COLONIAL PERIOD -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 14 GUINEA -- EARLY HISTORY -- COLONIAL ERA -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 15 GUINEA-BISSAU -- EARLY HISTORY -- COLONIAL PERIOD -- LIBERATION STRUGGLE -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 16 LIBERIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- OUTSIDE INTERVENTION -- WORLD WAR II AND AFTER -- DECADES OF STRIFE -- RETURN TO PEACE -- CHAPTER 17 MALI -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE 19TH CENTURY -- FRENCH WEST AFRICA -- INDEPENDENT MALI -- POLITICAL UNREST AND MILITARY INTERVENTION -- TRAORÉ'S RULE -- TOWARD A MORE DEMOCRATIC FUTURE -- CHAPTER 18 MAURITANIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- EUROPEAN INTERVENTION -- STRUGGLE FOR POSTINDEPENDENCE STABILITY -- CHAPTER 19 NIGER -- EARLY HISTORY -- COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION -- INDEPENDENCE AND CONFLICT -- 2009 CONSTIT UTIONAL CRISIS -- CHAPTER 20 NIGERIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE NOK CULTURE -- IGBO UKWU -- KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES OF PRECOLONIAL NIGERIA -- KANEM-BORNO -- HAUSALAND -- YORUBALAND AND BENIN -- IGBOLAND AND THE DELTA CITY-STATES -- THE SOKOTO JIHAD -- THE COLLAPSE OF OTO -- NIGERIA AS A COLONY -- INDEPENDENT NIGERIA -- THE CIVIL WAR -- THE SECOND REPUBLIC -- MILITARY REGIMES -- RETURN TO CIVILIAN RULE -- CHAPTER 21 SENEGAL -- EARLY HISTORY -- INDEPENDENT SENEGAL.

CHAPTER 22 SIERRA LEONE -- EARLY HISTORY -- COLONY AND PROTECTORATE -- INDEPENDENCE -- CIVIL WAR -- POST-CIVIL WAR -- CHAPTER 23 TOGO -- EARLY HISTORY -- GERMAN OCCUPATION -- LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATE -- INDEPENDENCE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.