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HIST 499: African History

Resources for African History

Algeria

Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun
Publication Date: 2000
Not held by WWU. Request through SUMMIT lending.

Congo

The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration by Henry M. Stanley (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1885

East Africa

The East African Coast: Select Documents from the First to the Earlier Nineteenth Century. by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, compiler.
Call Number: DT365 .F7
Publication Date: 1962

Ethiopia

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
Call Number: eBook
The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek
Call Number: online
The Kebra Nagast
Call Number: online

Ghana

Great Britain and Ghana: Documents of Ghana History, 1807-1957 by G. E. Metcalfe (George Edgar)
Call Number: DT511 .M58
Publication Date: 1964

Guinea

Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
Call Number: DT613.62 .C32
Unity and struggle : speeches and writings by Amilcar Cabral
Call Number: DT613.75 .C335

Kenya

Western Kenya Historical Texts: Abaluyia, Teso, and Elgon Kalenjin by Gideon S. Were 1934-.
Call Number: DT434.E2 A49
Publication Date: 1967
Race and Politics in Kenya: A Correspondence between Elspeth Huxley and Margery Perham by Elspeth Huxley, 1907-1997. Margery Perham, 1895-1982.
Call Number: DT434.E2 H78 1956
Publication Date: 1959
Suffering without bitterness : the founding of the Kenya Nation by Jomo Kenyatta
Call Number: DT434.E26 K49
Publication Date: 1968
"Mau Mau" general by Waruhiu Itote
Call Number: DT434.E27 I8
Publication Date: 1967
'Mau Mau' detainee; the account by a Kenya African of his experiences in detention camps, 1953-1960 by Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
Call Number: DT434.E27 K3 1963
Publication Date: 1963
Mau Mau from within : autobiography and analysis of Kenya's peasant revolt by Don Barnett
Call Number: DT434.E27 B28
Publication Date: 1966
Mau Mau and the Kikuyu by ouis S.B. Leakey
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche GN301 .H8 FL10 3
Publication Date: 1953
State of emergency; the full story of Mau Mau by F. (Fred) Majdalany
Call Number: DT434.E1 M28
Publication Date: 1962
The challenge of nationhood; a collection of speeches and writings by Tom Mboya
Call Number: DT434.E262 M35 1970b
Publication Date: 1970
Harambee! : the Prime Minister of Kenya's speeches, 1963-1964 : from the attainment of internal self-government to the threshold of the Kenya Republic by Jomo Kenyatta
Call Number: DT434.E26 K4
Publication Date: 1964

Liberia

The future of Africa : being addresses, sermons, etc., etc., delivered in the Republic of Liberia by Alexander Crummell
Call Number: DT632 .C7 1969
Publication Date: 1862
Scenes and incidents of every-day life in Africa by Harriette G. Brittan
Call Number: DT625 .B87 1969
Publication Date: 1860
A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa by Archibald Alexander
Call Number: E448 .A37 1971
Publication Date: 1849
Africa and the American flag by Andrew H. (Andrew Hull) Foote
Call Number: DT471 .F68 1969
Publication Date: 1854
The Liberia advocate
Call Number: e-resource
Publication Date: 1846-18??
Newspaper
African repository and colonial journal
Call Number: e-resource
Publication Date: 1825-1850
Periodical
History of the American colony in Liberia, from December 1821 to 1823 by J. (Jehudi) Ashmun, 1794-1828
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 40099
Publication Date: 1826
Calumny refuted by facts from Liberia : with extracts from the inaugural address of the coloured President Roberts ; an eloquent speech of Hilary Teage, a coloured senator ; and extracts from a discourse by H.H. Garnett, a fugitive slave, on the past and by Wilson Armistead
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 40099
Publication Date: 1848
Republic of Liberia. Facts for thinking men: showing the present condition of slave labor and free labor, in tropical and semi-tropical countries; and the indispensable necessity of African colonization; being letters originally addressed to the citizens by David Christy
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 40099
Publication Date: 1852
History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880 : negroes as slaves, as soldiers and as citizens ; together with a preliminary consideration of the unity of the human family, an historical sketch of Africa, and an account of the Negro governments o by George Washington Williams
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5
Publication Date: 1883
African colonization by Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins) Roberts
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 40099
Some interesting papers of John McDonogh : chiefly concerning the Louisiana Purchase and the Liberian colonization by John McDonogh
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 16487
Publication Date: 1898
Ethiopia : her gloom and glory : as illustrated in the history of the slave trade and slavery, the rise of the Republic of Liberia, and the progress of African missions by David Christy
Call Number: Wilson 180 - Microfiche E156 .L5 LAC 15843
Publication Date: 1857

Mali

The Timbuktu chronicles, 1493-1599 : English translation of the original works in Arabic by Al Hajj Mahmud Kati
Call Number: DT551.65 .T5613 2011

Nigeria

Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria: A Documentary Sourcebook. by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
Call Number: DT515.9.E3 K56
Publication Date: 1971
Lugard and the Amalgamation of Nigeria: A Documentary Record; Being a Reprint of the Report by Sir F.D. Lugard on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration 1912-1919; together with Supplementary Unpublished Amalgamation Reports by F. D. Lugard (Frederick Dealtry), Sir, 1858-1945.
Call Number: DT515.7 .L8
Publication Date: 1968
Baba of Karo : a woman of the Muslim Hausa
Call Number: DT515 .B115 1954
Collected works of Nana Asma'u, daughter of Usman dan Fodiyo (1793-1864)
Call Number: eBook
A preface to modern Nigeria : the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830-1890 by Jean Herskovits
Call Number: DT515.7 .K6
Publication Date: 1965

Senegal

White war, black soldiers : two African accounts of World War I
Call Number: eBook

South Africa

The Annals of Natal, 1495-1845 by John Bird, 1815-
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1888
Before Van Riebeeck; Callers at South Africa from 1488 to 1652 by R. Raven-Hart (Rowland), 1899-1971, compiler
Call Number: DT826 .R3
Publication Date: 1967
Diamond Fever: South African Diamond History, 1866-9 from Primary Sources by Marian Robertson, 1974-
Call Number: TN991 .R6
Publication Date: 1974
Dr. Do-Little and the African Potato: Cartoons from Sowetan, Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times by Zapiro
Call Number: DT1975 .Z38 2003
Drum Decade: Stories from the 1950s by Michael Chapman
Call Number: PR9367.33.N4 D78 2001
Publication Date: 2001
From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990 by Thomas Karis 1919-; Gwendolen Margaret Carter 1906-1991; Gail M Gerhart
Call Number: DT763 .F73
Publication Date: 1972
The Highlands of Kaffraria: A Review of Outstanding Incidents in Kaffirland and British Kaffraria Leading up to the Rise of King William's Town, Keiskama Hoek and East London, with Special Reference to the History and Situation of Fort Stokes by Alfred William Burton, 1882-1969
Call Number: DT846.K2 B8 1969
Publication Date: 1969
The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country by Joseph Shooter
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1857
The Mandela Files
Call Number: Oversize DT1974 .Z38 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress: The Struggle against Apartheid, 1948-1990: A Documentary Survey by S Johns (Sheridan), 1935-
Call Number: DT1757 .M36 1991
Publication Date: 1991
A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kaffir Hordes into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-1835, including Parts I, II, and III of the Introductory Remarks. by Robert Godlonton
Call Number: DT844.5 .G7 1836a
Originally published 1835-36
Natal and the Zulu Country by Thomas Victor Bulpin
Call Number: DT868 .B89
Publication Date: 1966
The Natal Papers: A Reprint of All Notices and Public Documents Connected with that Territory including a Description of the Country and a History of Events from 1498-1843, in Two Parts by John Centlivres Chase
Call Number: DT866 .C48 1843a
Publication Date: 1968
Facsimile of 1843 ed.
Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating South African History, 1795-1910 by G. W. Eybers (George von Welfling), 1887-1976
Call Number: JQ1911 .E8 1969
Publication Date: 1969
Select Documents Relating to the Unification of South Africa by Arthur Percival Newton, 1873-1942
Call Number: DT751 .N4 1968
Publication Date: 1968
Source Material on the South African Economy: 1860-1970 by D. Houghton.
Call Number: HC517.S7 H628
Publication Date: 1972-1973
South Africa in Two World Wars: A Newspaper History by Vic Alhadeff, 1979-
Call Number: Oversize D547.A4 A43
Publication Date: 1979
South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt. by Govan Mbeki, 1910-2001.
Call Number: Books (DT846.K2 M3)
Publication Date: 1964.
The Struggle for South Africa a Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations, and Institutions by Robert H. Davies
Call Number: JQ1931 .D38 1988)
Publication Date: 1988
What They Said, 1795-1910: A Selection of Documents from South African History by V. C. Malherbe (Vertrees Canby)
Call Number: DT766 .M27
Publication Date: 1971
The Boer War diary of Sol T. Plaatje; an African at Mafeking
Call Number: DT934.M2 P4
Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Call Number: DT1949.M35 A3 1994
491 days : prisoner number 1323/69 by Winnie Mandela
Call Number: eBook
Biko
Call Number: DT779.8.B48 W66
Not either an experimental doll : the separate worlds of three South African women
Call Number: HQ1800 .M69 1988

Sudan

An Islamic Alliance: ʻAlī Dīnār and the Sānūsiyya, 1906-1916 by Jay Spaulding; Lidwien Kapteijns
Call Number: DT159.6.D27 I85 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Chiefly documents in Arabic with English translations and notes.

Tanzania

Memoirs of an Arabian princess from Zanzibar
Not held at WWU. Request through SUMMIT lending.

West Africa

British Policy Towards West Africa: Select Documents by C. W. Newbury (Colin Walter), 1929-
Call Number: DT494 .N4
Publication Date: 1965-
1. Select Documents, 1786-1874. -- 2. Select Documents, 1875-1914, with Statistical Appendices, 1800-1914.
Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History by J. F. P Hopkins; Nehemia Levtzion
Call Number: DT476 .C67
Publication Date: 1981
France and West Africa: An Anthology of Historical Documents. by John D. Hargreaves, Compiler.
Call Number: Books (DT534 .H3)
Publication Date: 1969.
Guides to Materials for West African History in European Archives
Call Number: CD1000 .G8
Publication Date: 1962
Materials for West African History in the Archives of the United Kingdom.
Call Number: CD1000 .G8 no. 5
Publication Date: 1973
Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants by Nehemia Levtzion; Jay Spaulding
Call Number: DT476 .M43 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Saʻdi's Taʼrīkh al-Sūdān down to 1613, and Other Contemporary Documents by Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1596-1656?; John O. Hunwick.
Call Number: DT532.2 .S214213 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Travels in West Africa: Congo Franca̧is, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley 1862-1900
Call Number: DT471 .K55 1965
Publication Date: 1965
West African Studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, 1862-1900
Call Number: DT471 .K57 1964
Publication Date: 1964
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa: Or, A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms by Richard Francis Burton Sir, 1821-1890, Compiler.
Call Number: Google Books
Publication Date: 1865

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Independence Movements: Select Documents by Christopher Nyangoni; Gideon Nyandoro
Call Number: DT962.62 .Z565 1979
Publication Date: 1979