Hyperhistory is complemented with a comprehensive history text written by Frank Smitha.

Portuguese to Africa and Asia Summary : To Asia; Africa and Bakongo; Portugal abandons the Kongo; Portuguese south of Luanda

Sub-Saharan Africa Summary : Slave trading. European rivalries. Songhai Empire. Dutch in South Africa.

Africa to 1860 Summary : British, French, Arabs and Ottomans in Africa. Africans, from the Moroccans in the north to the Xhosa in the south.