Afryka

• Afrykańczycy to pierwsi ludzie: "Africans have been and are the frontiersmen who have colonised an especially hostile region of the world on behalf of the entire human race. That has been their chief contribution to history. It is why they deserve admiration, support, and careful study. The central themes of African history are the peopling of the continent, the achievement of human coexistence with nature, the building up of enduring societies, and their defence against aggression from more favoured regions. As aMalawian proverb says, ‘It is people who make the world; the bush has wounds and scars.’"
• Afryka przed podbojem: "Until the later twentieth century, therefore, Africa was an underpopulated continent. Its societies were specialised to maximise numbers and colonise land. Agricultural systems were mobile, adapting to the environment rather than transforming it, in order to avert extinction by crop-failure. Ideologies focused on fertility and the defence of civilisation against nature. Social organisation also sought to maximise fertility, especially through polygyny, which made generational conflict a more important historical dynamic than class conflict. Sparse populations with ample land expressed social differentiation through control"
• europejskie innowacje spowodowały nadmierny przyrost: "Yet Europeans introduced vital innovations: mechanical transport, widespread literacy, and especially medical advances that, in societies dedicated to maximising population, initiated demographic growth of a scale and speed unique in human history."

Filmy

• The Incredible Human Journey, 2009
• Dawn of Humanity 2015

Książki

• John Iliffe, Africans. The History of a Continent, Cambridge University Press (2007)