"Most of the biographies ... are based on accounts which were originally published in [the author's] Political Africa."--Acknowledgement.
Includes index.
Contents
1. The colours of collision: The Republic of South Africa -- 2. An international trust: South West Africa -- 3. Fleas in the queen's blanket: the high commission territories -- 4. Begging is forbidden: Portuguese Africa -- 5. A limited company: The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland -- 6. An association of nationalism: East Africa -- 7. Africa's Islamic horn -- 8. The palace politics of Ethiopia -- 9. Dark conspiracies in the Sudan -- 10. The calamity of the Congo -- 11. The equatorial quartet -- 12. The test of Cameroun -- 13. The four faces of Nigerian nationalism -- 14. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana -- 15. Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast -- 16. The missing link of Upper Volta -- 17. A family affair: Tubman's Liberia -- 18. Sékou Touré and the Guinean experiment -- 19. An African presence: Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal -- 20. The Moroccan monarchy -- 21. From reform to revolution in Algeria -- 22. The politics of compromise: Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia -- 23. The desert kingdom of Libya: Idris I -- 24. The socialist pharaoh: Gamel Abdel Nasser.
Hendrik Verwoerd -- Sir De Villiers Graaff -- Harry Oppenheimer -- Peter Brown -- Albert Lutuli -- Robert Sobukwe -- Hosea Kutako -- Ntsu Mokhehle -- Bereng Seeiso -- Seretse Khama -- Kgaleman Motsete -- Sobhuza II -- John Nquku -- Ambrose Zwane -- Holden Roberto -- Ilidio Machado -- Dr. Antonio Neto -- Mario Pinto de Andrade -- Monseigneur Sebastiao de Resende -- Sir Roy Welensky -- Sir Edgar Whitehead -- Winston Field -- Joshua Nkomo -- Dr. Hastings Banda -- Kenneth Kaunda -- Jomo Kenyatta -- Ronald Ngala -- Julius Nyerere -- Rashidi Kawawa -- Kabaka of Buganda -- Benedicto Kiwanuka -- Milton Obote -- Sheikh Ali Muhsin -- Haji Mohamed Hussein -- Abdullahi Issa -- Aden Abdullah Osman -- Emperor Haile Selassie I -- The Crown Prince -- Hapte-Wolde Aklilou -- Isamil el Azhari -- Abdullah Khalil -- General Ibrahim Abboud -- Joseph Kasavubu -- Moise Tshombe -- Cyrille Adoula -- Antoine Gizenga -- Leon M'ba -- David Dacko -- Francois Tombalbaye -- Abbe Fulbert Youlou -- Ahmadou Ahidjo -- John Foncha -- Dr. Benjamin Azikiwe -- Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa -- Chief Obafemi Awolowo -- Kwame Nikrumah -- Felix Houphouet-Boigny -- Maurice Yameogo -- Tubman's Liberia -- Sekou Toure -- Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Mohammed V -- Hassan II -- Ferhat Abbas -- Youssef Ben Khedda -- Mohammed Ben Bella -- Habib Bourguiba -- Idris I -- Gamel Abdel Nasser.
