"African Leaders: Guiding the New Millenium provides profiles of Africa's leaders and their main political rivals, concentrating on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them.

In Africa, women leaders have a strong legacy. Female pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, queens and queen mothers have reigned throughout contemporary Africa, and women across the continent have led modern liberation movements.This book's wide-ranging examination of African women leaders focuses especially on women in elected or appointed national government positions.

The African American Peopleis the first history of the African American people to take a global look at the role African Americans have played in the world. Author Molefi Kete Asante synthesizes the familiar tale of history’s effect on the African people who found themselves forcibly part of the United States with a new look at how African Americans in later generations impacted the rest of the world.