Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- The origins of "Darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors" : twentieth-century evolutionism -- Real Africa, wise Africa -- We should help them -- Cannibalism : no accounting for taste -- Africans live in tribes, don't they? -- Safari : beyond our wildest dreams -- Africa in images -- Race and culture : the same and the other -- From imagination to dialogue -- Appendix : learning more.