该书为联合国教科文组织编写《非洲通史》第八卷，1935年以后的非洲。
该卷图书主要介绍了第一次世界大战后非洲地区人民逐渐开始的民族独立运动。主要内容包括世界十年冲突中的非洲1935-1945年、为政治主权而斗争的非洲1945年至独立、为争取经济独立而斗争、独立后非洲国家的社会政治变革、1935年以来的非洲社会文化变迁以及泛非主义运动和非洲一体化、国际事务中独立的非洲等内容。
目录:
Contents
Key for maps ix
List of figures xi
List of plates xiii
Acknowledgements for plates xvii
Preface xix
Amadou-Mahtar M'BOW, Director-General of UNESCO (1974-87)
Description of the project xxv
Bethwell A. OGOT, President of the International Scientific Committee
for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (1978-83)
Note to the reader xxviii
1 Introduction 1
Ali A. MAZRUI
Section I — Africa in a decade of world conflicts, 1935-45
2 The Horn and North Africa, 1935-45: crises and change 29
Tayeb CHENNTOUF
3 Tropical and equatorial Africa under French, Portuguese and
Spanish domination, 1935-45 58
Majhemout DIOP in collaboration with David BIRMINGHAM,
Ivan HRBEK, Alfredo MARGARIDO and Djibril Tamsir NIANE
4 Africa under British and Belgian domination, 1935-45 76
Michael CROWDER
Section II — The struggle for political sovereignty: from IÇ45 to independence