Table of Contents

Static image - dynamic reality, Graham Connah; African hunter-gatherers - history and the politics of ethnicity, Richard B. Lee, Robert K. Hitchcock; the ecology of food production in West Africa, Joanna Casey; before the Empire of Ghana - pastoralism and the origins of cultural complexity in the Sahel, K.C. MacDonald; African urbanism - scale, mobility and transformation, Roland Fletcher; climate and history in West Africa, George E. Brooks; iron in Africa - metal from nowhere, James Woodhouse; pre-colonial trading systems of the East African interior, Henry Muturo; city states of the East African coast and their maritime contacts, George Abungu; the Europeans in West Africa - culture contact, continuity and change, Christopher R. DeCorse.