Chapter I. West Africa and its people -- Chapter II. The great empires of the Western Sudan -- Chapter III. Europeans and West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- Chapter IV. European competition for trade in West Africa, c. 1600-c.1800 -- Chapter V. West Africa and the slave trade -- Chapter VI. West Africa and the campaign against the slave trade -- Chapter VII. Britain and her West African settlements, 1807-c. 1880 -- Chapter VIII. The renewal of French activity and the European scramble for colonies in West Africa -- Chapter XI. West Africa under European rule -- Chapter X. The dawn of independence.