Foreword Preface Central African palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments since 40 ka ?an overview (with two maps); Palaeo-lake Congo: Implications for Africa’s Late Cenozoic climate ? some unanswered questions; On the age of stone-lines and hillwash sediments in the eastern Congo basin ? palaeoenvironmental implications; The palaeoenvironmental significance of Late Pleistocene and Holocene creep and other geomorphic processes, Butare, Rwanda; The Pleistocene fossil site of Masangano in northern Rwanda; Sedimentary sequences in western Uganda as records of human environmental impacts; Evolution of the carbon cycle in Lake Kimilili, Mt Elgon, Kenya, since 14 000 cal. yr BP: a multiproxy study; Stratigraphy and formation of a Late Pleistocene colluvial apron in Morogoro district, Central Tanzania; On the age and significance of Quaternary colluvium in eastern Zambia; Stable carbon isotope (?13C) analysis of alluvial sediments and Holocene environmental changes in the Mbari valley in the Southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR); Bioturbation by termites and Late Quaternary landscape evolution on the Mbomou plateau of the Central African Republic (CAR); Opal phytoliths as evidence for the formation of savanna islands in the rain forest of Southeast Cameroon; A study of Niger Delta environment through air-borne palynomorphs, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; The origin of dust on the West Coast of Southern Africa; Fossil landslides in the Schwarzrand, Huib and Huns escarpment areas ? a contribution to the Quaternary morphostratigraphy of southern Namibia; Distribution and morphologies of palaeo-channels in southeastern Egypt and northwestern Sudan; The position of the Murzuq Sand Sea in the palaeodrainage system of the Eastern Sahara; Understanding of coastal fluctuation at the Arabian Gulf leading to the ‘lost city of Gerrha’?