Chapter 1. Out of AfricaPart 1. Africa in the Old World: Early Times to 1500 CEChapter 2. Food Revolutions and Frontier Societies: 8000 BCE to 1000 CEChapter 3. Imperial Power and Religious Revolutions in the Mediterranean World, 800 BCE-1500 CEChapter 4. Cities of Gold: The West African Sahel and the East African Coast, 800-1600Part 2. Africa in the Age of Global War Capitalism, 1500-1800Chapter 5. Atlantic Africa and the Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450-1700Chapter 6.

Expansionist States and Decentralized Power in Atlantic Africa, 1700-1807Chapter 7. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Shores, 1500-1800Part 3. Africa in the Age of the Great Divergence: 1800-1870Chapter 8. Economic and Political Upheavals in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 9. Religious Movements and State-Building Strategies in the Nineteenth CenturyPart 4. Africa in the Age of the New Imperialism, 1870-1940Chapter 10. The Colonial Partition of Africa, 1870-1918Chapter 11. The Consolidation of Colonialism, 1914-1940Chapter 12.

Social and Cultural Change under High Colonialism, 1914-1940Part 5. Africa in the Age of the Cold War, 1940-1990Chapter 13. Late Colonialism: Development and Change, 1940-1965Chapter 14. Struggles for Independence, 1940-1965Chapter 15. Africa in a Bipolar World, 1965-1990Part 6. Africa in the Age of the Great Convergence, 1990-2015Chapter 16. Africa in a Multi-Polar World, 1990-2015.