1. Introduction -- I. Colonial Africa -- 2. Colonialism and the African Environment -- 3. Colonial Administrations and the Africans -- 4. Slavery in the Colonial State and After -- 5. Africans and the Colonial Economy -- 6. African Women in Colonial Economies -- 7. Colonialism and African Womanhood -- 8. Administration, Economy, and Society in the Portuguese African Empire (1900-1975) -- 9. Christian Evangelization and Its Legacy -- 10. Colonial Education -- 11. Health and Medicine in Colonial Society -- 12. African Colonial Urban Experience -- 13. Africa and the First World War -- 14. Africa and the Second World War -- 15. Colonialism and African Migrations -- 16. Colonialism and African Childhood -- 17. Literature in Colonial Africa -- 18. Art, African Identity, and Colonialism -- 19. Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial Influences on an African Culture -- 20. Youth and Popular Culture in Colonial Africa -- 21. The Horn of Africa and the Black Anticolonial Imaginary: 1896-1915 -- 22. Colonial Africa and the West -- 23. International Law, Colonialism, and the African -- 24. Colonialism and Development in Africa -- 25. Nationalism and African Intellectuals -- 26. Decolonization Histories -- II. Postcolonial Africa -- 27. Africa and the Cold War -- 28. African Politics since Independence -- 29. Secession and Separatism in Modern Africa -- 30. Post-Colonial Africa and the West -- 31. United States and Africa -- 32. Franco-African Relations: Still Exceptional? -- 33. Algeria and France: Beyond the Franco-Algerian Lens -- 34. China and Africa -- 35. Africa and Global Financial Institutions -- 36. Development History and Postcolonial African Experience -- 37. The African Diaspora and Postcolonial Africa -- 38. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 39. The Unfinished Business of Postcolonialism: Theological Perspectives -- 40. South Africa: Apartheid and Post-Apartheid -- 41. The Pan-African Experience: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union -- 42. Africa and Human Rights -- 43. Education in Postcolonial Africa -- 44. African Women and the Postcolonial State -- 45. Young People and Public Space in Africa: Past and Present -- 46. Colonialism and African Sexualities -- 47. Culture, Artefacts and Independent Africa: The Cultural Politics of Museums and Heritage -- 48. Building the African Novel on Quick Sand: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership -- 49. Music and Postcolonial Africa -- 50. Sports and Politics in Postcolonial Africa -- 51. Media, Society, and the Postcolonial State -- 52. Between Diaspora and Homeland: The Study of African and the African Diaspora in the United States.