Introduction.- Middle & Later Stone Age.- The Iron Age to c.1300.- Later Iron Age Societies to c.1685.- Early States & European Colonies, c.1600-c.1790.- Coastal & Interior Frontier Wars, c.1790-c.1868.- Scramble for Africa Part 1, c.1868-1902.- Scramble for Africa Part 2, 1902-1919.- Golden Years for Colonialism, 1919-1948.- Apartheid & African Nationalism, 1948-1967.- Years of Revolutionary Insurgence, 1967-1990.- Southern Africa since 1990.- General Bibliography & General Videography.- Index
Alois S. Mlambo is professor emeritus in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has taught at several universities in the last four decades, including Bayero University in Nigeria, University of Zimbabwe, the Universities of Minnesota, Duke, North Carolina and Pretoria.
Neil Parsons has forty years teaching experience at universities in Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana, and South Africa, with short-term research positions at Universities of Oxford, London, California at Berkeley, Australian National, and Leiden.