Preface by Basil Davidson
Author's Preface
Translator's Note Essays

• Traditional Societies in Tropical Africa and the Concept of the 'Asiatic Mode of Production'; Marxism and the Study of African Societies
• The Social and Historical Significance of the Peul Hegemonies in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
• The Context and Social Consequences of the African Slave Trade
• Senegambia at the Time of the Slave Trade
• Anticolonialism in France under the Third Republic: Paul Vigné d'Octon
• Guinea in the Colonial System
• The End of Chieftaincy in Guinea
• Colonisation, Decolonisation and the Teaching of History: Case of Black Africa
• An Unrecognised Pioneer of the Democratic and National Movement in Africa: Louis Hunkanrin (1887-1964)
• The Geography of Capital in the Parts of Tropical Africa under French Influence

• West Africa
• Guinea