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*''Zanzibar Protectorate Blue Book'' [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Zanzibar++Protectorate+Blue+Book%29&sort=date ''Zanzibar Protectorate Blue Book'' at Archive.org] 1916-1919, 1927, 1932, 1947.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9-k0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP1 1916], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=des0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kOs0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1918], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nus0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1919]. Google Books.
*Government Gazettes**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1sizo659wZMC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 ''The Kenya Gazette''] Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small tool bar which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916 . There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books*:''The Kenya Gazette'' is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.**[https://gazettes.africa Gazettes.Africa] Government Gazettes from various African Countries. Generally more recent years, but some more distant years and worth checking out, particularly when researching deaths.
*[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/withmacdonaldinu00aust/page/n8/mode/2up ''With Macdonald in Uganda : a narrative account of the Uganda Mutiny and Macdonald Expedition in the Uganda Protectorate and the territories to the north''] [1897-98] by Major Herbert H Austin 1903 Archive.org.
:Article [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637864 "Macdonald's Expedition and the Uganda Mutiny, 1897-98"] by R. W. Beachey ''The Historical Journal'' Vol. 10, No. 2 (1967), pp. 237-254. Register with jstor.org and read online for free.
:[https://archive.org/details/amongswampsgiant00aust/page/n5/mode/2up ''Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa. An account of surveys and adventures in the southern Sudan and British East Africa''] by Major H H Austin 1902 Archive.org. Surveys undertaken from October 1899.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028000499/page/n11 ''The life of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, K. C. S. I., C. B., C. M. G., 1835-1881; including services in Kaffraria--in China--in Ashanti--in India and in Natal''] by Lieut.-General Sir William F Butler 1899 Archive.org
*''Précis of Information Concerning the British Central Africa Protectorate. With Notes on Adjoining Territories. February 1899'' by Major C B Vyvyan, Intelligence Division, War Office. HMSO 1899, [https://archive.org/details/british-central-africa-protectorate/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YSYoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 Google Books].
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*[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/34096 ''The King's African Rifles: A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1914''] by H M Bartlett 1954. PhD thesis SOAS University of London.
*[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 still applies - you can only access the digitised print copy if you still have Flash installed. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181011063721/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/tocpage1.html Partial Transcribed versionto page 43 (digital Page 61)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20181011063611/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/The-History-of-the-Royal-West-African-Frontier-Force/files/assets/basic-html/page7.html Contents page]archived 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>
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=145 "East Africa" followed by "West Africa"] page 145 ''1924 First Year, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181 "East Africa", "West Africa"] page 181, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA204 "Mandated Territories"] page 204 includes Africa. ''1937 edition''. Google Books. See [[Indian Army#Historical books online|Indian Army - Historical books online]] for volumes 1-15, the complete series of this publication.
*[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://archive.org/details/nigeriankaleidos0000nive/page/n5/mode/2up ''Nigerian Kaleidoscope : Memoirs of a Colonial Servant''] by Sir Rex Niven 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Covers the years between 1921 and 1961 when the author served in various roles in the Nigerian Administration.
*[https://archive.org/details/savagewarsbritis00jame ''The Savage Wars : British Campaigns in Africa, 1870-1920''] by Lawrence James 1985 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/africanexperienc0000dorm/mode/2up ''African Experience : an Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)''] by T. E. Dorman (Thomas Edwin) 1993. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was employed by the Colonial Office as a teacher in Northern Rhodesia from 1954 until March 1965, Zambia having become independent in October 1964.
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