Graham Connah's books include The Archaeology of Benin, Three Thousand Years in Africa, African Civilizations, Kibiro and Transformations in Africa. Currently a visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, he was awarded the Order of Australia in 2000.

1. Africa: The Birthplace of Humanity 2. Stone Tools and Adaptation: The Origins of the Genus Homo 3. Africa's Gift to the World: The Earliest Homo Sapiens 4. Living off The Land: Later Hunter Gatherers in Africa 5. Putting Ideas on Stone: The Rock Art of Southern Africa 6. Pictures from a Lost World: The Rock Art of the Sahara 7. Producing Food: Early Developments in North and West Africa 8. Producing Food: Adaptation in North East and East Africa 9. The Power of Metal: The Origins of African Iron-Working 10. Ancient Egypt: 3000 Years of Achievement 11. Nubia: A Meeting Place of Different People 12. Aksum: A Trading Metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau 13. Church and State: Survival in Ethiopia 14. Opportunity and Constraint: The Lake Chad Story 15. Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa 16. Qsar es-Seghir: Front Door to Europe, Front Door to Africa 17. Jenné-Jeno: An Early City on the Middle Niger 18. Voyages in the Sahara: The Desert Trade with West Africa 19. Igbo-Ukwu: A Challenge from the Past 20. Ancestral Faces: Ancient Sculpture in Nigeria 21. Benin City: From Forest Power to World Fame 22. Pots and People: Early Farmers South of the Equator 23. The Testimony of the Dead: Life in the Upemba Depression 24. 'One Beautiful Garden': Production and Power amongst the Great Lakes 25. Facing Two Worlds: The Trading Settlements of the East African Coast 26. Projecting Power: Great Zimbabwe and Related Sites 27. Deserted Settlements with a Story: Later Farmers in Southern Africa 28. Outsiders on the Inside: The Impact of European Expansion 29. Remembering Africa's Past