First encounters in Africa. I was a savage / Prince Modupe (Guinea) ; Back to my village / Mongo Beti (Cameroon) ; Beatings at the Mission School / Cameron Duodu (Ghana) ; Confrontations / Chief Mojimba and H.M. Stanley (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part I / Cong refugees (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part II / Five Congolese girls (Congo) ; I survived the middle passage / Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria) ; The white man arrives / Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) ; The loss of identity / Chief Matungi (Congo) ; The coming of the pink cheeks / Chief Kabongo (Kenya) ; The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) ; Coming home / William Conton (Gambia) ; Clash between old and new / Chief Awolowo (Nigeria) ; The school inspector / Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) ; The return of the soldier / Francis Obika (Nigeria) ; Coming of the airplane / Edward Atiyah (Sudan)

First encounters in North America. Arrival of the Dutch on Manhattan / Indian chiefs (New York) ; Ridiculing the French / Micmac Indian spokesman (Canada) ; The prophecy / Basil H. Johnston (Canada) ; Janitin is named Jesus / Janitin (California) ; Address in Washington, D.C. / Chief Joseph (Oregon) ; The invisible killer / George Bent (U.S. Midwest) ; Their wondrous works and ways / Charles Eastman (Minnesota) ; The arrival of Bibles in northwest Alaska / Blanche J. Criss (Alaska) ; Literary disempowerment / Jeannette Armstrong (Canada) ; The conquistadors arrive / Aztec witnesses (Mexico)

First encounters in South America. Execution of an Incan emperor / Garcilaso de la Vega (Peru) ; Not Gods but conquerers / Titu Cusi Yupanki (Peru) ; The beheading of Emperor Amaru / unnamed Inca (Peru) ; The conquest of the Incas : postscript / Waman Puma (Peru)

First encounters in greater Australia. Growing up in New Guinea / Albert Kiki (Papua New Guinea) ; First contacts / Papuan highlanders (Papua New Guinea)

First encounters in Asia. Scornful letter to King George III / Chinese Emperor Qian Long (China) ; Denunciation of the British / Canton citizens (China) ; Beware of western barbarians / Wei Yuan (China) ; The evil of western materialism / Abu Taleb (India) ; Hinduism is not inferior to Christianity / Rammohun Roy (India) ; Japanese are superior, Dutch are inferior / Hiratu Atsutane (Japan) ; War is preferable to peace / Tokugawa Nariaki (Japan) ; Criticisms of Catholicism / Yi Ik (Korea) ; The weakness of Catholicism / An Chongbok (Korea) ; China is the center of the universe / Yi Hangro (Korea).