Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-367).

Contents:-Connexions between 'primary resistance' movements and modern mass nationalism in East and Central Africa, parts I & II / by T.O. Ranger -- African critics of Victorian imperialism / Boniface I. Obichere -- The survival of Ethiopian independence / K.V. Ram -- Patterns of Igbo resistance to British conquest / A.E. Afigbo -- The Franco-Baoulé War, 1891-1911 : the struggle against the French conquest of central Ivory Coast / John M. O'Sullivan -- French colonisation and African resistance in West Africa up to the First World War / B. Olatunji Oloruntimehin -- Resistance and collaboration in Southern and Central Africa, c. 1850-1920 / Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman -- God, anti-colonialism and dance : Sheekh Uways and the Uwaysiayya / by Christine C. Ahmed -- Resistance, revenue and development in northern Somalia, 1905-1939 / by Patrick Kakwenzire -- The place in history of the Sudanese Mahdia / by P.M. Holt -- Famine and social change during the transition to colonial rule in northeastern Tanzania, 1880-1896 / James Giblin -- The organization of the Maji Maji Rebellion / by John Iliffe -- Maji Maji in Ungoni : a reappraisal of existing historiography / Patrick M. Redmond -- John Chilembwe and the New Jerusalem / by Jane Linden and Ian Linden -- 'Chirmurenga' : the Shona Rising of 1896-97 / by D.N. Beach -- Revolutionary Mahdism and resistance to colonial rule in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1905-6 / by Paul E. Lovejoy and J.S. Hogendorn -- The Nyangire Rebellion of 1907 : anti-colonial protest and the nationalist myth / Edward I. Steinhart.