This guide is intended to show how inter-African relations work. There are many continental institutions that between them create a framework within which African states can solve their problems and assist one another with regional economic development, peacekeeping, or political cooperation. The guide provides an historical setting for the institutions that are examined and also gives examples of how they operate in practice.

1: The Search for Unity; 2: The Organization of African Unity (OAU); 3: The regions; 4: Independence Struggles and Movements; 5: Regional Economic Groupings; 6: African Resources; 7: Development Problems; 8: Continental Infrastructure; 9: Africa's Ethnic Diversity and How it Copes; 10: Religions in Africa; 11: Africa and the United Nations; 12: Wars in Africa: The Resolution of Disputes; 13: Special Relationships; 14: African Panorama: 2000