African States and Rulers

This is a bigger (over 11,000 entries), updated (through late fall 1998) edition of the 1989 original ("Stewart's organization and his index...make his work indispensable"-Library Journal; "the most complete record to date...the source to turn to"-Wilson Library Bulletin) covering the enormous kaleidoscope of changing political boundaries, names, and rulers of Africa. This exhaustive reference allows the user quickly to determine what happened in or to each country and when-changes of names, political systems, rulers, and so on. The term "state" is loosely defined to embrace, throughout the history of Africa, any area of land with recognized borders and evidence of a continuing governmental structure, almost always with a capital city.

Entries give official name of country, dates during which it went by that name, location, capital, alternate names including cross-references to previous and later incarnations, and a list of rulers with dates of power when known.