第一章 非洲概念
哲學家而不是曆史學家是研究非洲概念的先驅，參見V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Bloomington, 1988)和The Idea of Africa (Bloomington, 1994)，以及Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House: Africa and the Philosophy of Culture (New York, 1992)；比較見解參見Ronald B. Inden, Imagining India (Oxford, 1990)和Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 (Oxford, 2005)；地理視角參見Martin W. Lewis和K?ren E. Wigen的The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley, 1997)，這本著作發人深省。關於非洲曆史最好的一卷書是John Iliffe的Africans: The History of a Continent (Cambridge, 1995)；James C. McCann, Green Land, Brown Land的Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990 (Portsmouth, NH, 1999)是一本很好的導論書籍。Roderick J. McIntosh的The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold (Oxford, 1998)是一部傑出的曆史考古學著作。關於更廣泛背景的書籍參見Graham Connah的African Civilizations. Precolonial Cities and States: An Archaeological Perspective (2nd edn, Cambridge, 2001), David W. Phillipson的African Archaeology (3rd edn, Cambridge, 2005)，以及David M. Anderson和Richard Rathbone (eds)的Africa’s Urban Past (Oxford, 2000)；關於《鬆迪亞塔》，參見Ralph Austen (ed.) In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Epic as History, Literature, and Performance (Bloomington, 1999)。
第二章 非洲人：多樣性和統一性
關於介紹非洲人口的曆史參見James L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation(New Haven, 1995)；關於介紹非洲語言的書籍參見B. Heine and D. Nurse (eds), African Languages: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2000)；關於北非的書籍Michael Brett和Elizabeth Fentress的The Berbers (Oxford, 1996)非常不錯；關於混合沿海社區的書籍，參見John Middleton, The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization (New Haven, 1992)和George Brooks, Eurafricans in Western Africa (Athens, Ohio, 2003)；對非洲中心主義的有力批判參見Stephen Howe, Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes (London, 1998)；關於南非的身份和曆史想象參見Carolyn Hamilton, Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention (Cambridge, Mass., 1998)和T. Dunbar Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and Afrikaner Civil Religion (Berkeley, 1975)；關於約魯巴參見Toyin Falola (ed.), Yoruba Historiography (Madison, 1991)和L. J. Matory,‘The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41 (1999)；關於殖民前的盧旺達參見Jan Vansina, Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (Oxford, 2004)；關於20世紀，參見Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton, 2001)；非洲流行音樂的曆史還有待書寫，但地區性的流行音樂史研究參見G. Stewart, Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos (London, 2000)。