Topics considered here include urban life, lineage and family, the role of women, and slavery.
The section on urban life discusses the citizens of towns and villages, dwellings, business and leadership. Photos of Great Zimbabwe and Timbuktu are included. This section goes on to describe Timbuktu as recorded by that famous Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. African identities were established by one's extended lineage and within one's parents, siblings, and grandparents. The family usually lived in a mud hut roofed with thatch.