History of East Africa / edited by Roland Oliver, Gervase Mathew.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. The East African Environment - II. The Stone of East Africa - III. The Peopling of the Interior of East Africa by it’s Modern Inhabitants - IV. The East African Coast until the coming of the Portuguese - V. The Coast, 1498-1840 - VI. Discernible Developments in the Interior c. 1500-1840 - VII. Zanzibar and the Coastal Belt, 1840-84 - VIII. The Southern Section of the Interior, 1840-84 - IX. The Northern Interior, 1840-84 - X. The Wider Background to Partition and Colonial Occupation - XI. The British Sphere, 1884-94 - XII. The German Sphere, 1884-98 -- Maps : 1. East Africa ; relief - 2. East Africa ; mean annual rainfall - 3. Main Stone Age sites in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika - 4. Sketch map of the distribution of Hamites, Negroes, Nilotes, and Nilo-Hamites and of the T/K languages, in East Africa - 5. Tentative reconstruction of Nilotic, Hamitic, and Bantu movements in East Africa - 6. The Indian Ocean and its trade, c. 10th-15th centuries - 7. The East African coast, showing the principal places mentioned in the text - 8. Approximate movements of Lwo-speaking Nilotic peoples and central Nilo-Hamites, c. 15th-18th centuries - 9. Extension of Bito and Nyiginya dynasties in the Interlacustrine region, 15th-18th centuries - 10. The growth of Buganda, 16th-19th centuries - 11. Probable spread of Ntemi chieftainships from Nyamwezi-Sukuma area - 12. Approximate lines of the main trade routes to the interior based on Zanzibar, 1840–1884 - 13. The north-eastern interior, 1840–1884 - 14. The north-western interior, 1840–1884 - 15. Partition of East Africa, 1884-1891 - 16. German and British advance into the interior, 1884–1893.