Primary Sources and Archival Collections.

       
Gabon

Compiègne, Louis-Alphonse-Henri-Victor du Pont, marquis de /  L'Afrique équatoriale.   Paris :   Plon, 1875.  
DT351 .E75  (v. 1-2)

Guiral, Léon / Le Congo français du Gabon à Brazzaville.
Paris :  E. Plon, Nourrit, 1889.  
DT546 E89 

Raponda-Walker, André / Au pays des Ishogo : simple récit de voyage.  
Libreville :  Fondation Raponda Walker, c1994.  
DT546.127 .R37 1994 


Gambia

Moore, Francis / Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religion and government; the power, disposition and characters of some negro princes; with a particular account of Job Ben Solomon. To which is added, Capt. Stibbs's voyage up the Gambia in the year 1723, to make discoveries; with an accurate map of that river taken on the spot: and many other copper plates.   London :  E. Cave, 1738.  
DT509 .D38   (Special Collections)

Wright, Donald / Oral traditions from the Gambia.   Athens, Ohio :  Ohio University Center for International Studies, Africa Program, 1979-80.  
DT1 .F684 no. 37  &  DT1 .F684 no. 38

 

Ghana

An Asante embassy on the Gold Coast : the mission of Akyempon Yaw to Elmina, 1869-1872.   Edited by René Baesjou.   Leiden :  Afrka Studiecentrum, 1979.  
DT507 .A82M

Crooks, John Joseph / Records relating to the Gold Coast settlements from 1750 to 1874. London :  Cass, 1973.  
DT511 .C7 1973M 

Daendels, Herman Willem / Journal and correspondence of H. W. Daendels, Governor-General of the Netherlands settlements on the coast of Guinea.  
Legon :  Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1964.  
DT510.6.D3 F64

Dantzig, A. van / Selected documents : special paper : Elmina and its neighbors, 1836-1876.  
DT512.9.E4 D4M 

Horton, James Africanus Beale / Letters on the political condition of the Gold Coast, since the exchange of territory between the English and Dutch governments, on January 1, 1868 together with a short account of the Ashantee War, 1862-4, and the Awoonah War, 1866.   London :  F. Cass, 1970.  
DT511 F70 

Marees, Pieter de / Description and historical account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602).   Translated from the Dutch and edited by Albert van Dantzig and Adam Jones.   Oxford :   Published for the British Academy, 1987.  
DT510.4 .M37 1987 

Metcalfe, George E. / Great Britain and Ghana; documents of Ghana history, 1807-1957.   London :  T. Nelson on behalf of the University of Ghana, 1964.  
DT511 F643  

 

Guinea

 Bosman, Willem / A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts.   London :  J. Knapton, 1705.  
DT477 .D05R 

 Delbée / Journal du voyage du Sr Delbée, aux isles, dans la coste de Guynée.  
Paris :  G. Clouzier, 1671.
Location:  Mugar Microfiche

Graf, John Ulrich  / Journal of a missionary tour to the Labaya Country (Guinea/Conakry) in 1850.  Leipzig :  University of Leipzig, Institut fur Afriaknistik, 1998. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, History and Culture , No. 01 1998.
DT543.27 G74 2000

Gröben, Otto Friedrich von der / Guineische Reise-Beschreibung : nebst einem Anhange der Expedition in Morea.   Marjenwerder :  Gedruckt durch Simon Reinigern, 1694.  
DT472 .G76 1694a  

Hawkins in Guinea 1567-1568.  Leipzig :  University of Leipzig, Institut fur Afrikanistik, 2000.   University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, History and Culture Series no. 5 2000.
DT543.27 .H39 2000 

Labat, Jean Baptiste / Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et à Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727.   Amsterdam :  Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1731.  
Location:  Mugar Microfiche

Villault, Sieur, Sieur de Bellefond (Nicolas) / Relation des costes d'Afrique, appellées Guinée, avec la description du pays, moeurs & façons de vivre des habitans, des productions de la terre, & des marchandises qu'on en apporte, avec les remarques historiques sur ces costes.   Paris : Denys Thierry, 1669.  
Location:  Mugar Microfiche

A relation of the coasts of Africk called Guinee [microform] : with a description of the countreys, manners, and customs of the inhabitants, of the productions of the earth, and the merchandise and commodities it affords : with some historical observations upon the coasts : being collected in a voyage made by the Sieur Villault ... in the years 1666 and 1667 .   English translation of previous entry.   London :  John Starkey, 1670.
AC4 .F61  (Mugar Microfilm)

 

Guinea-Bissau

 Coelho, Francisco de Lemos, fl. 1669-1684 / Duas descrições seiscentistas da Guiné / de Francisco de Lemos Coelho ; manuscritos inéditos publicados com introdução e anotações históricas pelo Académico de Número Damião Peres.  
Lisboa :  Academia Portuguesa da História, 1990.  
DT472 .C64 1990 

Honório Pereira Barreto: biografia, documentos, "Memória sobre o estado actual da Senegâmbia Portuguesa."   Edited by Jaime Walter.   Bissau : 1947.
DT613.A3 F47  

 

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