ch. 1. How it all began--Eduard Van Zinderen Bakker and Palaeoecology of Africa / Klaus Heine -- ch. 2. Reconstructing environmental changes since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in the Geba Basin, Northern Ethiopia, by geomorphic process interpretation and land management evaluation / Jan Moeyersons ... [et al.] -- ch. 3. Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert environments : the Namib case / Klaus Heine -- ch. 4. A sedimentary record of environmental change at Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana / Andrew H. Ivester ... [et al.] -- ch. 5. Ecosystem change during MIS 4 and early MIS 3 : evidence from middle Stone Age sites in South Africa / Grant Hall & Stephan Woodborne -- ch. 6. The potential of poaceae, cyperaceae and restionaceae phytoliths to reflect past environmental conditions in South Africa / Carlos E. Cordova & Louis Scott -- ch. 7. Topographic and hydrologic control of gully erosion phenomena in palaeolandscapes of Swaziland, Southern Africa / Samanta Pelacani & Michael Mr̃ker -- ch. 8. Gypsum in desert soils, subsurface crusts and host sediments (Western desert of Egypt) / Ashraf Mohamed, Konrad Rg̲ner & Sixten Bussemer -- ch. 9. New findings from geological, geomorphological and sedimentological studies on the palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southern Cameroon / Mark Sangen ... [et al.] -- ch. 10. Palaeoclimate of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya, from 1.350 TO 1.810 A.D. 189 / Julian A. Ogondo, Daniel O. Olago & Eric O. Odada -- ch. 11. A cluster-analysis-based climate classification for N.E. Africa / Brigitta Sch¿tt, Katharina Ducke & Jan Krause -- ch. 12. Climate and palaeoenvironment evolution in North Tropical Africa from the end of the tertiary to the upper quaternary / Jean Maley -- ch. 13. An assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards in Central Africa / Ine Vandecasteele, Jan Moeyersons & Philippe Trefois.