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===Regimental histories===
*Also see Historical books online, below.
*''The King's African Rifles. A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945'' by Lieut.-Colonel H Moyse-Bartlett 1956. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096707. Sample pages only, reprint edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q3C-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP2 Volume 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aHC-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP3 Volume 2] Google Books. Includes Contents.
*Historical records of the 3rd Battalion [King's African Rifles] 1895-1933. TNA WO 106/270
==External links==
*FamilySearch, a free website provided by the LDS (Mormon) Church has a category [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list?fcs=region%3AAFRICA&ec=region%3AAFRICA Africa], mainly consisting of transcribed records. Alternatively, from the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Map], click on Africa, then select relevant country. It is necessary to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view any records. In addition, [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search Search the Catalog] for digitised microfilms relating to Africa, ensuring you are signed in to FS, as results can differ if you are not. Countries are catalogued according to their modern name. For more about digitised microfilms, see [[FamilySearch]] and [[FamilySearch Centres]].
*[[Findmypast]] and Ancestry, both pay websites may have relevant records. See [[South Africa]] for links to record sets/databases.
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"], This is part of the Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish, section of pay website Ancestry database and holds some genealogical information relating to countries in East Africa.
**Tanzania
**Uganda
*[https://www.findagrave.com Find a Grave] includes some African records.
*There may be a relevant Ancestry Message Board
:[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/ Search all Ancestry Message Boards]. You do not need to be an Ancestry subscriber, but to post, you must register with Ancestry.
*Rootsweb Mailing Lists. From March 2nd, 2020 all Rootsweb Mailing Lists have been discontinued. Mailing list archives will remain available and searchable.
:[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/ listindexes Search all Rootsweb Mailing List Archives]::[https://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=afr-kenya.rootsweb.com/ Search the Kenya List Archives] ::[https://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=afr-tanzania.rootsweb.com/ Search the Tanzania List Archives]::[https://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=africa.rootsweb.com/ Search the Africa List Archives]
*[https://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/countries/topics/kenya/ Genealogy.com Kenya Forum] Archived posts only. Does not appear to be currently active.
*J Gordon Mumford’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206083230/http://www.gordonmumford.com/eastafrica/index.htm African Adventures] now archived
*[https://archive.org/details/newaccuratedescr00bosm/page/n5 ''A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory coasts''] by Willem Bosman, Chief Factor for the Dutch at the Castle of St. George d’Elmina. 1907 reprint of original 1705 edition translated from the c 1703 Dutch edition. Archive.org. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GblfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 1705 edition] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/englishestablish00mart/page/n3 "The English Establishments on the Gold Coast in the second half of the eighteenth century"] by Eveline C Martin 1922. Archive.org. An article from ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 4th Series 1922, pages 167-189. Also included "Note on Manuscript Sources and Bibliography" pages 190-208.
*[https://archive.org/details/b22017173/page/n5/mode/2up ''Journal of a Voyage Performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman, from Madras to Columbo and Da Lagoa Bay, on the eastern coast of Africa ... in the Year 1798''] by William White, Captain, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|73rd Highland Regiment of Foot]]. 1800. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/forestfield00hall/page/n9 ''The Forest and the Field''] by H. A. L. The "Old Shekarry" 1867. Archive.org. India and Africa.
:[https://archive.org/details/wrinklesorhintst00halhiala/page/n4 ''Wrinkles; or, Hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment, and camp life''] by The Old Shekarry [Henry Astbury Leveson], a New Edition 1874. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005C910 ''Handbook of British East Africa, including Zanzibar, Uganda, and the territory of the Imperial British East Africa Company''] Prepared in the Intelligence Division, War Office. 1893. [By Captain H. J. Foster, R.E.] Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division. London : HMSO Stationery Office, 1893.
*[https://archive.org/details/biggameshooting01philiala/page/n7/mode/2up ''Big Game Shooting, Volume I''] by Clive Phillipps-Wolley 1894 Archive.org. Part of ''The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes''.
*[https://archive.org/details/withmountedinfan00alde/page/n7/mode/2up ''With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896''] by E A H Alderson, (Edwin Alfred Hervey) 1898 Archive.org. The location became part of Southern Rhodesia, now northern Zimbabwe.
:[https://archive.org/details/inserviceofrache0000mars_p4k5/page/n5/mode/2up ''Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7: a study in African resistance''] by T. O. Ranger 1967 Archive.org
*Sikhs under Major Manning are mentioned in the article [https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/CENTURY/Century1896B/C1896B-Glave.pdf "Glave in Nyassaland. British raids on the Slave-Traders. Glimpses of life in Africa, from the journals of the late E J Glave"] from ''The Century Magazine'' 1896, page 589. Journal entries are from July 1893. victorianvoices.net. There are also additional extracts from Glave's journal from ''The Century Magazine'', possibly also from 1896. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Glave Edward James Glave] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishafrica00johnuoft/page/n7 ''British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi''] by Sir Harry H Johnston 1897 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/britishafrica00johnuoft/page/98 Page 98]. A small force of Indian troops was engaged as a nucleus for the police force in Central Africa, from the [[23rd Punjab Pioneers|23rd]] and 32nd Pioneers, and Haiderabad Lancers.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes many chapters about Africa.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181011062612/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/ ''The History of the Royal West African Frontier Force''] by Colonel A. Haywood and Brigadier F.A.S.Clarke. 1964. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, now archived at Archive.org. Originally required Flash turned on, this requirement may still apply - if you see a Flash icon, click it. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Transcribed version].
:[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8-LtY0s36phLNTLGg ''The Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, Commandant West African Regt, originally published c 1916, is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in Military Books (locate from the Search)/West Africa. This is an online version of a Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<ref>
[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/great-war-in-west-africa/ ''Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, originally published c 1916. Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref>
*[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/war-journal-of-the-fifth-kenya-battalion-the-kings-african-rifles-1939-1945/ ''War Journal Of The Fifth (Kenya) Battalion The King’s African Rifles 1939-1945''] by W. D. Draffan & T. C. Lewin is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in Military Books (locate from the Search)/Kenya. This is an online version of a Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/war-journal-of-the-fifth-kenya-battalion-the-kings-african-rifles-1939-1945/ ''War Journal Of The Fifth (Kenya) Battalion The King’s African Rifles 1939-1945''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> Begins with the campaign against the Italians in Abyssinia and ends fighting the Japanese in Burma.
*[https://archive.org/details/imageofafricabri0000curt_n2z8/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Image of Africa : British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850''] by Philip D Curtin 1964. [https://archive.org/details/imageofafricabri0000curt_n2z8/page/n13/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/questfortimbucto00gard/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Quest for Timbuctoo''] by Brian Gardner 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/africandream0000gard/page/n5/mode/2up ''The African Dream''] by Brian Gardner 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/colonialwestafri0000crow/page/n7 ''Colonial West Africa : Collected Essays''] by Michael Crowder 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromdarkcon00sour ''Tales from the Dark Continent: images of British colonial Africa in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1979. Archive.org Lending Library. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries.
*[https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=341404;keyword=Victorian%20Soldier%20Africa ''The Victorian Soldier in Africa''] by Edward M Spiers 2004. ''Open Access'' oapen.org.
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878];[https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT] with rotatable pages; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1922 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
: In addition, ''Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*[https://archive.org/details/referenceguideto030515mbp/page/n367 "Africa"] page 354 ''A Reference Guide To The Literature Of Travel Volume One: The Old World'' by Edward Godfrey Cox 1948 reprint edition, originally published 1935. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16082/page/n3/mode/2up ''Drug Plants Of Africa''] by Thomas S. Githens 1949 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonial/nav/index/all?&s=date&max=100 Koloniale Sammlungen], [Colonial collections] mainly German language books, (limited English and French language) about the German colonies in Africa. Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/crescentmoon00younrich/page/n3 ''The Crescent Moon''] by Francis Brett Young 1918 Archive.org. Author of ''Marching on Tanga'', see [[East Africa (First World War)]].
