African Connections is the seventh book of the African Archeology Series, a collection of volumes that are presenting the current researches on the African culture. The author, Peter Mitchell is an Archeologist and university lecturer in African Prehistory at the University of Oxford, specialised in African archaeology. The book gives a wide perspective of the worldwide connections the African continent has had in the past years, also thanks to the enormous bibliography that occupies the last pages, as the author in Oxford University could access the Bodleian Library collection and bring a rich references set. Relationships with the outside world are explored in all their length and complexity, how they were built up. Mitchell starts talking about the farming systems before moving towards the East and the Red Sea Corridor, so the interconnections through Egypt and Nubia with the East countries and the Indian Ocean. He then analyses the trans-Saharian trade, the connection between the Northern and the Southern parts of the desert and afterwards the newly established trading with Europe and the Atlantic sea. He also faces the problem of diaspora, calling it Out of Africa 3, exploring the periods of resistance to foreign dominations.The book is mostly concerned with the past 2000 years of the African continent, but the hypothesis of a previous diaspora, called Out of Africa 2, considering connections with the near East. The majority of the research has taken place in the Southern part of Africa, investigating the Portuguese period and the Dutch, establishing that Portuguese people remained in Africa way more than other Europeans. The cultural richness of the African country is due to all of these different influences of other populations, each of them leaving its own mark to the country, but also absorbing its resources and exporting its possessions, leaving Africa in a difficult situation. Anyway the country can take advantage of these resources to grow on its base and develop. The last part is dedicated to a review on the latest archaeological problems and expectations from the future. The author focuses on chronological and geographical guidelines, trying to catch the richness of the African past, but it would be interesting to understand something more about the African population, from an anthropologic point of view. The book is dealing clearly with Archeology, but it is a subject generally recognised as a branch of anthropology, studying the material culture of the past and the two are directly related.