1. The Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches -- 2. State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena -- 3. Social Groupings -- 4. Ethnicity, Class, and the State -- 5. Regimes in Independent Africa -- 6. High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government -- 7. Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict -- 8. Political Transitions and Patterns of Change -- 9. Coping with Transformation: Approaches to Development -- 10. Coping with Change: Crisis and Attempted Reform -- 11. Inter-African Relations -- 12. Africa in World Politics -- 13. South Africa: The Possibilities and Limits of Transforming State and Society -- 14. Africa in the Twenty-First Century -- App. 2. Changes in Country Names -- App. 3. Basic Political Data.