Primary Sources and Archival Collections.

           

Senegal

Ahmadou Bamba face aux autorités coloniales (1889-1927).   Compiled by Oumar Ba.   Dakar :  Impr. de la Sips.  
DT549.73.B36 A36 1990z  (Mugar Folio)

Durand, Jean Baptiste Leonard / Voyage au Sénégal, or Mémoires historiques, philosophiques et politiques sur les découvertes, les établissemens et le commerce des Européens dans les mers de l'Océan atlantique, depuis le Cap-Blanc jusqu'à la rivière de Serre-Lionne inclusivement.   Paris :  H. Agasse, An 10.-1801-1807.  
Mugar Microfiche & DT549.2 E02 

Golbéry, Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de / Fragmens d'un voyage en Afrique, fait pendant les années 1785, 1786 et 1787, dans les Contrées occidentales de ce Continent, comprises entre le cap Blanc de Barbarie ... et le cap de Palmes.   Paris :  Treuttel et Würtz, 1802.  
HGARC

Lamiral, Dominique Harcourt / Mémoire sur le Sénégal.   Paris :  Postillon, 1791.   Mugar Microfiche

Raffenel, Anne / Nouveau voyage dans le pays des nègres : suivi d'études sur la colonie du Sénégal, et de documents historiques, géographiques et scientifiques.  
Paris :  Impr. et Librairie Centrales des Chemins de Fer, 1856.  
Mugar Microfiche.

 

Seychelles

Unpublished documents on the history of the Seychelles Islands anterior to 1810 .   Compiled by A.A. Fauvel.   Victoria? :  1980.  
DT469.S465 U57 1980 (African Docs)

 

Sierra Leone

MacQueen, James /  Sierra Leone - civilization of Africa.   [n.p.], 1827.  
DT516 .E27 

Melville, Elizabeth / A residence at Sierra Leone. Described from a journal kept on the spot, and from letters written to friends at home.   Edited by the Hon. Mrs. Norton.   London :  J. Murray, 1849.  
DT516.2 .E49  (Storage)

Reeck, Darrell / Oral data regarding the history of the process of modernization and related mission influences in Sierra Leone gathered in 1968-69.   1971.  
DT516.13 .R44 1971  (vol. 1-2)

Ricketts, H.I. / Narrative of the Ashantee war; with a view of the present state of the colony of Sierra Leone.   London :  Simpkin and Marshall, 1833.  
DT507 E33 

Watt, James / Journal of James Watt : expedition to Timbo, capital of the Fula Empire in 1794.   Edited with an introduction by Bruce L. Mouser.  Madison :  African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1994.  
DT532.13.W38 W38 1994

 Zachary Macaulay and the Development of the Sierra Leone Company, 1793-4. I. Journal, June-October 1793. Leipzig :  University of Leipzig, Institut fur Afrikanistik, 2000. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, History and Culture Series no. 4 2000.

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Somalia

Swayne, Harold George Carlos / Seventeen trips through Somaliland; a record of exploration and big game shooting, 1885 to 1893; being the narrative of several journeys in the Hinterland of the Somali coast protectorate, dating from the beginning of its administration by Great Britain until the present time, with descriptive notes on the wild fauna of the country.   London :  Ward, 1895.  
DT401 .E95 


South Africa

Anderson, Andrew A. / Twenty-five years in a wagon in the gold regions of Africa.   London, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1888.  
DT731 E88 

Cetewayo, King of Zululand, ca. 1826-1884 / A Zulu king speaks : statements made by Cetshwayo kaMpande on the history and customs of his people / edited by C. de B. Webb and J. B. Wright.   Pietermaritzburg  :  University of Natal, 1978.  
DT878.Z9 C524  

Delegorgue, Adulphe / Voyage dans l'Afrique australe. English. Adulphe Delegorgues Travels in Southern Africa / translated by Fleur Webb ; introduced and indexed by Stephanie J. Alexander and Colin de B. Webb. Durban :  Killie Campbell Africana Library ;  Pietermaritzburg :  University of Natal Press, 1990-1997.
DT1730 .D4513 1990 v. 1

From Dias to Vorster : source material on South African history 1488-1975 .   Edited by Ruth E. Gordon and Clive J. Talbot.   Cape Town :  Nassou, 1977.   DT767 .G6

Dixie, Florence / In the land of misfortune.   London : R. Bentley and son, 1882.   DT878.Z9 E82 

Fitzpatrick, Percy / Fitzpatrick : South African politician : selected papers, 1888-1906.   Johannesburg : McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976.  
DT776.F5 A33 

Harford, Henry / The Zulu War journal of Colonel Henry Harford, C. B.  
Pietermaritzburg :  Shuter & Shooter, 1978.  
D T777 .H37 

The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring people. Edited and translated by C. de B. Webb and J. B. Wright. Pietermaritzburg :  University of Natal Press, 1976-
DT878.Z9 J3 (5 volumes) 

Karis, Thomas and Gwendolyn Carter /  From protest to challenge : a documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1882-1964.  Stanford :  Hoover Institution Press, 1972-.  
DT763 .F73 (v. 1-5)

Karis-Gerhart collection : from protest to challenge, 1964-1990 [microform].  
Chicago : Cooperative Africana Microfilming Project, 1999.  
(African Studies Library)

Mackenzie, John / Ten years north of the Orange River; a story of everyday life and work among the South African tribes, from 1859-1869.   Edinburgh :  Edmonston and Douglas, 1871.  
DT756 .E71 

Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress : the struggle against apartheid, 1948-1990 : a documentary survey.   Edited by Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davis, Jr. New York :  Oxford University Press, 1991.

Matthews, Josiah Wright / Incwadi Yami; or, Twenty years' personal experience in South Africa.   London  :   S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887.  
DT775 E87

Newton, Arthur Percival / Select documents relating to the unification of South Africa. London :  Cass, 1968.  
DT751 F68 

Nicholson, George / Fifty years in South Africa: being some recollections and reflections of a veteran pioneer.   London :  W.W. Greener, 1898.  
DT756 E982   

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

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Sudan

Austin, Herbert Henry / Among swamps and giants in equatorial Africa; an account of surveys and adventures in the southern Sudan and British East Africa.  
London :  C.A.Pearson, 1902.  
DT361 F02

Ensor, F. Sidney / Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor.  
London :  W.H. Allen and co., 1881.  
DT123 E81 

The Europeans in the Sudan, 1834-1878 : some manuscripts, mostly unpublished: written by traders, Christian missionaries, officials, and others.   Edited by Paul Santi and Richard Hill.   Oxford :   Clarendon Press, 1980.  
DT154.73 .E96

Gordon, Charles George /   General Gordon's Khartoum journal.   Edited by Lord Elton. London :  W. Kimber, 1861.    
DT108.3 F61 

Hanson, John  / After the Jihad: the reign of Ahmad Al-kabir in the Sudan.
East Lansing : MSU Press, 1991.
DT 532.3 H36 1991

Kapteijns, Lidwien / After the millennium : diplomatic correspondence from Wadai and Dâr Fûr on the eve of colonial conquest, 1885-1916.  
East Lansing :  African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1988.  
DT156.6 .K36 1988  

Knight, E.F. / Letters from the Sudan, by the special correspondent of "The Times."   London :  Macmillan and co., 1897.  
DT108.5 E971 

MacMichael, Harold Alfred / A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and some account of the people who preceded them and of the tribes inhabiting Darfur.
Cambridge : The University Press, 1922.
GN 652 A7 F22   (Volume 2 contains translations of manuscripts)

Melly, George / Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles. 
London :  Colburn and co., 1852.  
DT54 E52 (v. 1-2)

Petherick, John / Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile, to the regions of the equator; being sketches from sixteen years' travel by John Petherick.   Edinburgh :  W. Blackwood and sons, 1861.  
DT123 E61 

Schnitzer, Eduard / Emin Pasha, his life and work; comp. from his journals, letters, scientific notes and from official documents by Georg Schweitzer, with an introd. By R.W. Felkin.   Westminister :  A. Constable, 1898.  
DT363 E98  (v. 1-2)

Speedy, Cornelia Mary /  My wanderings in the Soudan.   London :  R. Bentley, 1884.   DT123 E841  (v. 1-2) 

Werne, Ferdinand / African wanderings; or, An expedition from Sennaar to Taka, Basa, and Beni-Amer, with a particular glance at the races of Bellad Sudan.   Translated from German by J.R. Johnston.   London :  Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852.  
DT123 .E52 

 

Swaziland

O'Neil, Owen Rowe / Adventures in Swaziland : the story of a South African Boer.  
New York :  Century Co., 1921.  
DT971 .F21b 

 

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