Lhe volume 3 covers the history of Africa from the 7th to the 11th century. This period covers two movements called to exert a significant and lasting cultural, political and economic influence on the history of the continent: the growing influence of Islam, its diffusion and its interaction with the traditional cultures of North Africa and west and Bantu expansion to the south. The book begins by situating Africa in the context of world history at the dawn of the 7th century, before examining the general impact of Islamic penetration, the continued expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples and the rise of the Sudanese civilizations of West Africa. The following chapters study the successive Islamic dynasties of North Africa and their influence, Christian Nubia; the civilizations of the savannah, forests and coast of West Africa; the horn of Africa, the coast of eastern Africa and the hinterland, central Africa, southern Africa, and the internal development of Madagascar and its contacts with the outside world. The last three chapters deal with the African diaspora in Asia, international relations and the diffusion of technologies and ideas on the African continent, and analyze the overall impact of the period on African history. Each chapter is illustrated with black and white photographs, maps, figures and figures. The text, entirely annotated, is supplemented by an important bibliography of works relating to the period.