Part 2 of 12 in the unabridged audiobook of Chancellor Williams’ classic study of African history. Chapter 1, “The Overview,” maps the geography of what Williams calls the land of the Blacks — a vast African world of some twelve million square miles — and recovers the ancient meaning of “Sudan” and the wide reach of the Ethiopian Empire. Williams traces how the slow advance of the desert, together with Asian and European incursions, began fragmenting a once-united people into scattered societies forever migrating within their own homeland. A grounding chapter in the long history of Black civilization for the readers of Black Boys In Crisis.