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| Preface | |
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| Anonymous: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. First Century C.E. | |
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| Cosmas Indicopleustes: Trade in Ethiopia. 547 | |
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| Tuan Ch'eng-Shih: China's Discovery of Africa. 863 | |
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| Ibn Battuta: The East African Coast. 1331 | |
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| Ibn Battuta: Mali. 1352 | |
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| Antonius Malfante: Tawat and the Western Sudan Trade. 1447 | |
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| Gomes Eannes de Azurara: The Discovery of Guinea. 1435 | |
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| Rui de Aguiar: King Affonso I. 1516 | |
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| Francisco Alvarez: The Land of Prester John. 1525 | |
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| Leo Africanus: The Western Sudan in the Sixteenth Century. 1526 | |
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| Duarte Barbosa: The East Coast of Africa at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. 1540 | |
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| Andrew Battell: The Jaga. 1568 | |
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| Filippo Pigafetta and Duarte Lopez: Paulo Diaz de Novais in Angola. 1571 | |
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| Joao dos Santos: The Wazimba. 1590 | |
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| Abd-al-Rahman al-Sadi: Songhay and the Moroccan Invasion. 1591 | |
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| Imam Ahmad ibn Fartuwa: Idris Alawma and the Kanem Wars. 1602 | |
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| Alvare II and Alvare III, Kings of Congo: Relations between the Kingdom of Congo and the Papacy. 1613 | |
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| Gaspar Bocarro: From Tete to Kilwa. 1616 | |
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| Father Lobo: Portuguese Missionaries in Ethiopia. 1620 | |
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| Jan van Riebeeck and Z. Wagenaar: Of the Native Tribes of South Africa. 1652 | |
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| Giovanni Cavazzi: Queen Anna Nzinga. 1654 | |
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| Manuel de Faria e Souza: The Kingdom of the Monomotapa. 1666 | |
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| Antonio Suarez: The Conversion of the Monomotapa. 1652 | |
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| John Barbot: Benin. 1680 | |
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| William Bosman: Justice and Warfare at Axim. 1700 | |
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| William Snelgrave: The Slaves Mutiny. 1730 | |
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| Mercator Honestus: A Defense of the African Slave Trade. 1740 | |
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| James Bruce: Sheik Adlan and the Black Horse Cavalry of Sennar. 1772 | |
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| Andrew Sparrman: The Boers. 1776 | |
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| Archibald Dalzel: Dahomey and Its Neighbors. 1793 | |
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| Mungo Park: The Niger at Segu. 1796 | |
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| Father Pinto: The Kingdom of the Kazembe. 1799 | |
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| Captain Hugh Crow: Bonny. 1800 | |
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| Abd Allah ibn Muhammad: The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman dan Fodio. 1804 | |
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| P. J. Baptista: The Kazembe. 1806 | |
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| Al-Kanami: The Case Against the Jihad. 1813 | |
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| John Lewis Burckhardt: Shendi. 1814 | |
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| Thomas Pringle: Boer Meets Bantu. 1820 | |
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| Major Dixon Denham: Bornu and Shaykh al-Kanami. 1823 | |
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| Rene Caillie: The Trans-Saharan Caravan. 1828 | |
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| Henry Francis Fynn: Shaka. 1830 | |
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| A. C. P. Gamitto: The Maravi. 1831 | |
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| Anna Elizabeth Steenkamp: The Great Trek. 1835 | |
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| Robert Moffat: Mzilikazi. 1840 | |
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| Thomas Fowell Buxton: The Principles of Abolition. 1840 | |
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| Theodore Canot: Slaving in Liberia. 1850 | |
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| Heinrich Barth: Al-Hajj Bashir, Kukawa, and Timbuktu. 1852 | |
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| Paul du Chaillu: Trade in Gabon. 1859 | |
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| Charles Livingstone: The Prazeros. 1859 | |
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| John Hanning Speke: Unyamwezi and Buganda. 1862 | |
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| Georg Schweinfurth: King Munza. 1871 | |
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| John Mackenzie: Bushman. 1873 | |
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| Ernest Linant de Bellefonds: Kabaka Mutesa I. 1875 | |
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| Edgar Canisius: Rubber Collecting in the Congo. 1885 | |
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| The Kano Chronicle: Kings of kano. 1892 | |
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| Ndansi Kumalo: The Ndebele Rebellion. 1896 | |
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| Mary Kingsley: The Crown Colony System in West Africa. 1897 | |
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| Lord Lugard: Indirect Rule in Tropical Africa. 1900 | |
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| Lord Delamere: White Man's Country. 1903 | |
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| Mohammed Abdille Hasan: The Sayyid's Reply. 1904 | |
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| Records of Maji Maji: The Maji Maji Rebellion. 1905-1907 | |
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| Sir Apolo Kagwa: Court Life in Buganda. 1910 | |
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| The Devonshire White Paper: The Indians in Kenya. 1923 | |
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| Haile Selassie: At the League of Nations June 30, 1936 | |
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| Felix Eboue: Native Policy and Political Institutions in French Equatorial Africa. 1941 | |
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| Jomo Kenyatta: Meeting at Nyeri July 26, 1952 | |
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| M. D. C. de Wet Nel: The Principles of Apartheid. 1959 | |
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| Nelson Rolihlahle Mandela: Verwoerd's Tribalism. 1959 | |
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| Steve Biko: Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity. 1977 | |
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| John Garang de Mabior: The Genesis of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), 1983 | |
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| Nelson Mandela: Address to the ANC. 1985 | |