Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / Worger -- Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht -- Masculinities / Stephan Miescher -- Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko -- Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson -- Women, authority and power in southeast Africa during pre-colonial times / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu -- Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe -- Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire Robertson -- Kinship in African history / James Giblin -- Ethnicity in southern Africa / Michael Mahoney -- Ethnicity and race in African thought / Jonathan Glassman -- Islam in African history / Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar -- Refugees in African history / Brett Shadle -- Science in Africa : a history of ingenuity and invention in African iron technology / Peter Schmidt -- Africa and environmental history / Greg Maddox -- Health and medicine in African history / Karen Flint -- Wealth and poverty in African history / Morten Jerven -- The idea of the Atlantic world from an Africanist perspective / Walter Hawthorne -- Swahili literature and the writing of African history / Ann Bierstecker -- Africa and the Cold War / Tim Scarnecchia -- The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet Weldemichael -- The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding -- Remembering and forgetting Apartheid / Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger -- Cultural resistance on Robben Island : songs of struggle and liberation in southern Africa / Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi -- African historians and popular culture / Charles Ambler.