Chapters: seasons, moon phases, eclipses & transit of Venus; occultations, perigee & apogee of the moon; geocentric & heliocentric planetary phenomena; visibility of the planets; times of meridian passages & elongations & magnitudes of the planets; diary of configurations of the sun, moon & planets; perihelion passages of comets; chronological cycles & eras; religious & civil holidays; Gregorian calendar & Julian day numbers; mean sidereal time; sun: equation of time & declination; circumpolar stars; international time zones; explanation of rising & setting tables; sunrise & sunset tables; moonrise & moonset tables; & eclipses.

This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of the African continent. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation of calendars.