African Experience: From "Lucy" to Mandela

Finding the "Lost Continent"

Africa's Many Natural Environments

A Virtual Tour of the Great Land

The Cradle of Humankind

Crops, Cattle, Iron — Taming a Continent

Kinship and Community — Societies Take Shape

Like Nothing Else — The Ancient Nile Valley

Soul and Spirit — Religion in Africa

Ethiopia — Outpost of Christianity

West Africa's "Golden Age"

The Swahili Commercial World

Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South

The Atlantic Slave Trade — The Scope

The Atlantic Slave Trade — The Impact

South Africa — The Dutch Cape Colony

South Africa — The Zulu Kingdom

South Africa — The Frontier and Unification

South Africa — Diamonds and Gold

Prelude to the "Scramble for Africa"

European Conquest and African Resistance

Colonial Africa — New Realities

Colonial Africa — Comparisons and Change

The Lion Awakens — The Rise of Nationalism

The Peaceful Paths to Independence

The Congo — Promise and Pain

Segregation to Apartheid in South Africa

The Armed Struggles for Independence

The First Taste of Freedom

The Taste Turns Sour

The World Turns Down — The "Permanent Crisis"

A New Dawn? The Democratic Revival

The South African Miracle

The Unthinkable — The Rwanda Genocide

The New Plague — Hiv/AIDS in Africa

Zimbabwe — Background to Contemporary Crisis

Africa Found