第一章 非洲概念
Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (New York, 1978).
John Iliffe, Africans: The History of a Continent (Cambridge, 1995), p. 1.
Frederick Cooper, Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge, 2002).
James C. McCann, Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990 (Portsmouth, NH, 1999), p. 3.
Roderick J. McIntosh, The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold (Oxford, 1998), p. xv.
第二章 非洲人：多樣性和統一性
T. E. Bowdich, Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (London, 1967 [1819]), p. 43.
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Negro (New York, 1915).
Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (London, 1987).
Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas (Lagos, 1921).
Lee Cronk, From Mokogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya (Boulder, 2004).
第三章 非洲過往：曆史之源
Jan Vansina, Art History in Africa: An Introduction to Method (London, 1984), p. 135.
Paul Jenkins (ed.), The Recovery of the West African Past: African Pastors and African History in the Nineteenth Century (Basel, 1998).
Jan Vansina, Oral History: A Study in Historical Methodology (Chicago, 1965).
Joseph C. Miller, ‘History and Africa/Africa and History’, American Historical Review, 104 (1999), p. 11.
Thomas Q. Reefe, The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 (Berkeley, 1981).
John Yoder, The Kanyok of Zaire: An Institutional and Ideological History to 1895 (Cambridge, 1992).
Susan Keech McIntosh, ‘Archaeology and the Reconstruction of the African Past’, in John Edward Philips (ed.), Writing African History (Rochester, 2005), p. 57.
Henry John Drewal, ‘Signs of Time, Shapes of Thought: The Contribution of Art History and Visual Culture to Historical Methods in Africa’, in Philips, Writing African History, pp. 330 and 332.