Primary Sources and Archival Collections.

                  

Central Africa

Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin / In the Heart of Africa.  
London :  Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1910.  
DT351 .F102

From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile; an account of the German Central African expedition of 1910-1911.   London :  Duckworth & Co., 1913.  
DT351 F13

Alexander, Boyd / From the Niger to the Nile.   London : E. Arnold, 1907.  
DT351 F073    (v. 1-2)

Boyd Alexander's last journey.   New York :  Longmans, 1912.  
DT351 .F12

Baker, Samuel White / Ismaili; a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade.   Organized by Ismail, khedive of Egypt.   New York : Harper & brothers, 1875.  
DT361 E75

Bartellot, Edmund Musgrave / Journal et correspondance du major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot commandant l'arrière-colonne dans l'expédition Stanley à la recherche et au secours d'Emin Pacha.   Bruxelles :  Lubegue, 1891.  
DT363.E913

Les Belges dans l'Afrique centrale : voyages, aventures et découvertes d'après les documents et journaux des explorateurs.   Bruxelles :  P. Maes, 1886.  
DT351 E86   (v. 1-3)

Bellingham, William / The diary of a working man (William Bellingham) in Central Africa, December, 1884, to October 1887.   Edited by J. Cooke Yarborough.  
London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890.  
DT351 E907

Bourne, H.R. Fox / Other side of the Emin Pasha relief expedition.  
London :  Chatto, 1891.
DT363 .E91

Burton, Richard Francis / The lake regions of Central Africa: A picture exploration.    London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.  
DT361 E601  (v. 1-2)

Caddick, Helen / A white woman in central Africa.  London :  T.F. Unwin, 1900.   DT351 F00 (storage)

Cameron, Verney Lovett / Across Africa.  London :   Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877.  
DT361 .E771 (v. 1-2)

Chaille-Long, Charles / Central Africa: naked truths of naked people.   An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile).   New York :  Harper & Brothers, 1877.  
DT361 E76

Chevalier, Auguste / L'Afrique centrale française. Récit du voyage de la mission, par Auguste Chevalier.   Paris :  A. Challamel, 1907.  
DT546 F07

Coillard, Francois / On the threshold of Central Africa; a record of twenty years' pioneering among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi.   Translated from the French and edited by Catherine Winkworth Mackintosh.   London :  Hodder and Stoughton, 1897.
DT963.9.B3 E97

Decle , Lionel / Three years in savage Africa.   London :  Methuen & Co., 1898.  
DT361 E98 

Drummond, Henry / Tropical Africa.   New York :   Scribner and Welford, 1888.   DT361 E89

Elton, James Frederick / Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. From the journals of the late J. Frederic Elton.   Ed. and completed by H. B. Cotterill.   London :  J. Murray, 1879.  
DT365 E79

Filippi, Filippo de / Ruwenzori; an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi.  
London :  A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909.  
DT351 F082  
(For the French edition of this account, see DT665.R98 F09;
or in Italian, see DT665.R98 F08.)

Foà, Edouard / La traversée de l'Afrique du Zambèze au Congo français.   Paris :  Plon-Nourrit, 1900.  
DT11 .F001

Geil, William Edgar / A Yankee in pigmy land.   London :  Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. DT351 .F081 

Gide, André / Travels in the Congo.   Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy.   New York: A.A. Knopf, 1927.  
DT546 .G53 
(Original French - DT546 .F27)

Giraud, Victor / Les lacs de l'Afrique équatoriale; voyage d'exploration exécuté de 1883 à 1885.   Paris: Hachette, 1890.  
DT361 .G52

Heuglin, Theodor / Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflüsse in den Jahren 1862-1864.   Leipzig :  C.F. Winter, 1869.  
DT117 .E69 

Jephson, A.J. Moneteney / Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the equator; a story of nine months' experience in the last of the Soudan provinces.   New York  :  C. Scribner's Sons, 1890.  
DT363 E90

Stories told in an African forest by grown-up children of Africa.   London :  S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893.  
PR4825.J23 S8 E93

Johnson, Thomas Broadwood / Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State.   London : T.F. Unwin, 1908.  
DT644 F081

Johnston, Harry H. (See also, Liberia, Tanzania, Uganda, North Africa)
The river Congo, from its mouth to Bologo: a general description of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin.   London :  Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. DT639 E95 

British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence, north of the Zambesi.   New York  :  Arnold, 1897.  
DT858 E97 

Junker, Wilhelm / Travels in Africa during the years 1875[-1886].   Tr. from the German by A.H. Keane. London :  Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1890.  
DT351 E902 (v. 1 - 3)

Kerr, Walter Montagu / The far interior: a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa.  
London :  S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.  
DT756 .E86  (v. 1 - 2)

Kumm, Hermann Karl Wilhelm / From Hausaland to Egypt, through the Sudan .   London :  Constable and Co., Ltd., 1910.  
DT124 F10

Livingstone, David (see also, Missions).
African journal, 1853-1856.   Edited with an introd. By I. Schapera.  
London :  Chatto & Windus, 1963.  
DT731.L7 F63  (v. 1-2)

The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death; continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller.  London :  J. Murray, 1874.  
DT731.L7 E74 (v. 1-2)

Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864.   London :  J. Murray, 1865.  
DT731.L7 E65

Lloyd, Albert B / In dwarf land and cannibal country; a record of travel and discovery in Central Africa.   New York :  Dutton, 1907.  
DT351 .F07

Macleod, Olive / Chiefs and cities of Central Africa, across Lake Chad by way of British, French, and German territories.   London :  W. Blackwood & Sons, 1912.  
DT356 F12

Maturin, Edith Money / Adventures beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-woman.   New York :  Brentano's, 1913.  
DT351 F132

Rankin, Daniel / The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland.   Edinburgh :  W. Blackwood & sons, 1893.  
DT361 .E93

Richardson, James / Narrative of a mission to Central Africa, performed in the years 1850-51.   London :  Chapman, 1853.  
DT351 E53

Schillings, Karl Georg / In wildest Africa, by C.G. Schillings, Tr. By Frederic Whyte.   With over 300 photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations.   New York :  Harper & Brothers, 1907.  
SK251 F07 (For German edition, see SK255.E2 F061)

Schweinfurth, Georg August / The Heart of Africa.   Three years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 .
New York :  Harper, 1874.  
DT361 E74 (v. 1-2)

Stanley and Africa. By the author of "The life of General Gordon."  London :  W. Scott, 1890.  
DT351.S9 E903 

Stanley, Henry Morton / Through the dark continent: or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean.  New York :  Harper & Brothers, 1878.  
DT351 .S83  (v. 1-2)

How I found Livingstone: Travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa, including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone.   London :  Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890.  
DT351 .E905

In darkest Africa; or, The quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria.     New York :  C. Scribner's Sons, 1890.  
DT351 .E901  (v. 1-2)

The story of Emin's rescue as told in Stanley's letters; pub. by Mr. Stanley's permission, ed. by J. Scott Keltie. With map of the route.   New York :  Harper & Brothers, 1890.   DT351 E89

Swann, Alfred James / Fighting the slave-hunters in Central Africa; a record of twenty-six years of travel & adventure round the Great Lakes and of the overthrow of Tip-pu-tib, Rumaliza, and other great slave-traders.   Philadelphia :  J.B. Lippincott Co., 1910.
DT 351 .F10

Taylor, Bayard / The lake regions of Central Africa.   New York :  Negro University Press, 1969 (reprint of 1881 volume).  
DT361 E812

Torday, Emil / Camp and tramp in African wilds; a record of adventure, impressions, and experiences during many years spent among the savage tribes round Lake Tanganyika and in Central Africa, with a description of native life, character, and customs.   London :  Seeley, Service, & Co., 1913.  
DT639 F13 

Wissmann, Hermann von / My second journey through equatorial Africa from the Congo to the Zambesi, in the years 1886 and 1887.   Tr. from the German by Minna J.A. Bergmann.   London :  Chatto & Windus, 1891.  
DT351 E91

Wollaston, A.F.R. / From the Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist's journey across Africa.   London :  J. Murray, 1908.  
DT351 F08

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East Africa

Chanler, William Astor / Through jungle and desert; travels in Eastern Africa.  
New York :  Macmillan, 1896.  
DT425 .E96 

Fitzgerald, William Walter Augustine / Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics.   London :  Chapman and Hall, 1898.  
DT425 .E98 

Hohnel, Ludwig Ritter von / Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie: a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888.   London :  Longmans, Green, 1894.  
DT361 .E94

Krapf, J.L. / Travels, researches, and missionary labors, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa. Together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum; and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado.   London :  Trübner and co., 1860.  
DT365 .E60 

Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry / The rise of our East African empire; early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda.   Edinburgh :  W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893.  
DT423 E93  (v. 1-2)

Mcleod, Lyons / Travels in Eastern Africa; with the narrative of a residence in Mozambique.  London :  Hurst and Blackett, 1860.    
DT365 .E601 (v. 1-2) 

New, Charles / Life, wanderings, and labours in Eastern Africa. With an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial snow mountian, Kilima Njaro, and remarks upon East African slavery.   London :  Hodder and Stoughton, 1873.  
DT425 .E73 

Peters, Karl (see also, Mozambique.) / New light on dark Africa: being the narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza.   Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken, PH. D.   London :  Melbourne, Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.  
DT361 .E91
(Original German edition: DT361 .E912)

Sheldon, Mary French /  Sultan to sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa.   London :   Saxon, 1892.  
DT361 .S54 1892a

Smith, Arthur Donaldson / Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu.   London :  E. Arnold, 1897.  
DT361 .E96 

Speke, John Hanning / Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.  
New York :  Harper, 1864.  
DT117 .F06 

Thomson, Joseph / Through Masai land : a journey of exploration among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange tribes of eastern equatorial Africa ; being the narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Mount Kenia and lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884.   Boston :  Houghton, Mifflin, 1885.  
DT361 E95

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North Africa

Baratier, Albert / À travers l'Afrique.   Paris :  A. Fayard, 1910.  
DT527 .F12  

Barth, Heinrich / Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855.  New York :  Appleton, 1857.  
DT351 .E57  (v. 1-5)

Bullard, Arthur / T he Barbary coast; sketches of French north Africa.   New York :  The Macmillan Co., 1913.  
DT190 F131

Davis, Nathan / Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories.  
London :  J. Murray, 1862.  
DT191 .E62 

Denham, Dixon /  Narrative of travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824/ by Major Denham ... Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney ; extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of northern latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Felatah empire.     London :  J. Murray, 1828.  
DT351 E28  (v. 1-2)

Dumont, Pierre Joseph / Narrative of thirty-four years' slavery and travels in Africa.   London :  Sir. R. Phillips, 1819.  
HT1345 E19 

Ebury, Robert Grosvenor / Extracts from the journal of Lord R. Grosvenor : being an account of his visit to the Barbary regencies in the spring of 1830.  
Chester :  G. Harding, 1830.  
DT189 E301   

Field, Henry M. / The Barbary coast.   New York :   C. Scribner's sons, 1893.  
DT189 E93 

Fraser, John Foster / The land of veiled women, some wanderings in Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco.   London :  Cassell and co., ltd., 1911.  
DT190 .F7

Gérard, Jules / L'Afrique du Nord; description, histoire, armée, populations, administration et colonisation, chasses, le Maroc.   Paris :  E. Dentu, 1860.  
DT164 E60  

Grant, Cyril Fletcher / 'Twixt sand and sea; sketches and studies in North Africa.   London :  S. Low, Marston & Co., 1911.  
DT162 F11 

African shores of the Mediterranean.   New York :   Mcbride, Nast, 1912.  
DT165 .F121 

Johnston, Harry   (See also, Liberia, Tanzania, Uganda, Central Africa)
The History of a Slave.   London :  Paul, 1889.  
HT1381 E89 

Loyson, Emilie Jane Butterfield Meriman / To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems.   Chicago :  The Open Court publishing co., 1905.  
DS49 .L92 

Pananti, Filippo / Narrative of a residence in Algiers: comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency; biographical sketches of the dey and his ministers; anecdotes of the late war; observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian powers.   London :  H. Colburn, 1818.  
DT189 E18

Pellow, Thomas / The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner, three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors.   London :  T.F. Unwin, 1890.  
DT308 E90 

Rae, Edward / The country of the Moors; a journey from Tripoli in Barbary to the city of Kairwân.   London :  J. Murray, 1877.  
DT189 E77 

Riley, James / Loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815, with an account of Tombuctoo, and of the hitherto undiscovered great city of Wassanah.   London :  J. Murray, 1817.
DT189 E17 

Schoenfeld, Emil Christian Dagobert / Aus den staaten der Barbaresken.  
Berlin :  D. Reimer, 1902.  
DT190 F02 

Shaw, Thomas / Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant.   London :  A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757.  
DT188 .D57 (Special Collections)

Terry, Alice / Amongst the Moors, Tunisians, Maltese, and Syracusans.  
London :  C. Dickens and Evans, 1890.  
DT309 E90 

Vischer, Hans / Across the Sahara from Tripoli to Bornu.   London :  E. Arnold, 1910.   DT333 F10 

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Southern Africa

Baines, Thomas. (See also  Zimbabwe)
Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the western coast, to lake Ngami and the Victoria falls.   London :  Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.  
DT731 .B16

Baines, Thomas / The gold regions of south eastern Africa.   London :  E. Stanford, 1877.  
DT745 .E77

Foà, Edouard / Du Cap au Lac Nyassa.   Paris :   Plon, 1897.  
DT731 .E97 

Foà, Edouard /  Résultats scientifiques des voyages en Afrique.  
Paris :  Imprimerie nationale, 1908.  
QH194 .F08

Primary sources on political violence in Southern Africa.  
London :  Research Associates, 1988- .  
DT 1159 P75

Theal, George McCall / Records of South-Eastern Africa collected in various libraries and archive departments in Europe.  Cape Town :  C. Struik, 1964.   (Reprints collection published by Government of the Cape Colony, 1898-1903.)  
DT731 .E98  (v. 1-9)

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West Africa

Butscher, Leopold / Account of the Mandingoes, Susoos, & Other Nations, c. 1815. Leipzig :  University of Leipzig Institut fur Afrikanistik, 2000.  University of Leipzig Papers on Africa History and Culture Series , no. 6, 2000.
 DT543.45 .M34 B88 2000 

Bovill, E.W. / Missions to the Niger.   Cambridge :  Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1964.  
DT360 F64  (v. 1-4)

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press, 1981.
DT 476 C67

Duncan, John / Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846 : comprising a journey from Whydah through the Kingdom of Dahomey to Adofoodia in the interior.  
New York :  Johnson Reprint Co., 1967.  
DT541.2 E47 

McLachlan, Peter / Travels into the Baga and Soosoo Countries in 1821.
Leipzig :  University of Leipzig, Institut fur Afrikanistik, 1999.  University of Leipzig Papers on Africa History and Culture Series no. 2 1999.
DT 543.27 .M35 1999

 

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