Originally published: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Portugal's impact on Africa -- Colonisers and the African iron age -- The Regimento da Mina -- Early African trade in Angola -- Traditions, migrations and cannibalism -- Iberian conquistadores and African resisters in the Kongo kingdom -- Angola and the church -- Joseph Miller's Way of death -- The coffee barons of Cazengo -- Britain and the ultimatum of 1890 -- Colonialism in Angola : Kinyama's experience -- Youth and war in Angola -- The twenty-seventh of May -- Angola revisited -- Black and white in Angolan fiction.