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HIST 499: African History

Resources for African History

Diaries

Africa through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Soldiers, Missionaries and Diplomats in Africa
Call Number: Microfilm (DT32.5.A48 2000)
Publication Date: 1999-2009
45 microfilm reels. Online guide available in catalog record through link above.
The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje: An African at Mafeking by Sol. T. Plaatje (Solomon Tshekisho), 1876-1932.
Call Number: Books (DT934.M2 P4)
Publication Date: 1973.
Commando Courageous: A Boer's Diary by Roland William Schikkerling.
Call Number: Books (DT932 .S3)
Publication Date: 1964.
The Diary of A. J. Mounteney Jephson: Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889
Call Number: DT363 .J53
ISBN: 9780521010214
The Diary of Adam Tas, 1705-1706
Call Number: DT843 .T2 1971
The Diary of Erasmus Smit
Call Number: Books (BX9595.S63 S613)
Hugh Clapperton, Into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825-1827
Call Number: eBook
My African Journey by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Call Number: DA566.9.C5 A398 2015
The South African Diaries of Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1875
Call Number: DA68.32.W7 A32
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Call Number: DS392.N67 C48 2015
Trade and travel in early Barotseland, the diaries of George Westbeech, 1885-1888, and Captain Norman MacLeod, 1875-1876
Call Number: DT964.B3 T3

Journals/Travel

African discovery: an anthology of exploration by Margery Perham
Call Number: DT3 .P4 1942
Publication Date: 1942
Anthology of writings of British explorers of Africa, 1769-1873
First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Francis Burton Sir, 1821-1890
Call Number: DT401 .B97 1966
Four Guineas: A Journey through West Africa by Elspeth Huxley, 1907-1997.
Call Number: DT497 .H8
Publication Date: 1955
John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence
Call Number: QH31.M78 A3 2001
Journal and Letter Book of Nicholas Buckeridge, 1651-1654.
Call Number: HF486.E6 B8 1973
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805 by Mungo Park 1771-1806
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1815
The Kingsleys: A Biographical Anthology by Elspeth Huxley 1907-1997, Compiler
Call Number: PR4839.K9 H8
Publication Date: 1973
Collection of writings by Charles, Henry, and G. H. Kingsley.
A New Earth: An Experiment in Colonialism by Elspeth Huxley, 1907-1997
Call Number: HN800.K4 H9
Publication Date: 1960
Travel Sketches from Liberia: Johann Büttikofer's 19th Century Rainforest Explorations in West Africa.
Call Number: eBook
The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354
Call Number: G490 .I2 1958
Adventures of Ibn Battuta A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century.
Call Number: eBook
Ibn Battuta in Black Africa
Call Number: DT365.2 .I262513 1994
ISBN: 9781558760875
The Nile Basin by Richard Francis Burton Sir, 1821-1890. James MacQueen 1778-1870.
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1864
The Story of the Niger: A Record of Travel and Adventure from the Days of Mungo Park to the Present Time by Robert Richardson
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1888
Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828 by René Caillié 1799-1838
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1830
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology by Elizabeth A. Bohls, Ian Duncan.
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2005
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po by Richard Francis Burton Sir, 1821-1890
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1863
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864.
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1864