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*[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://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/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
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iTM6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Campaigning in Western Africa and the Ashantee Invasion of 1874''] by Captain E Rogers 1874 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/coomassiemagdala00stan/page/n8 ''Coomassie and Magdala : the Story of two British Campaigns in Africa''] by Henry M. Stanley 1874 Archive.org. The Third Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "First Ashanti Expedition", took place 1873-1874 in the interior of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Coomassie is now known as Kumasi. The author was Special Correspondent of the ''New York Herald''.
:[https://archive.org/details/beninmassacre00bois_0/page/n3 ''The Benin Massacre''] by Captain Alan Boisragon 1898 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/lifeofadmiralsir00raws/page/n8 ''Life of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson''] by Geoffrey Rawson 1914 Archive.org. Includes information about operations in East Africa 1896 which led up to the storming of Mweli.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/advanceofourwest00wall/page/n7 ''The Advance of our West African Empire''] by C Braithwaite Wallis, late District Commissioner, Sierra Leone Protectorate. 1903 Archive.org. Details of the Sierra Leone Campaign (April 1898-March 1899), also known as the Sierra Leone Protectorate Expedition, or the Hut Tax War.
: The is also a personal account of this Expedition by "One who was there" in ''Royal United Services Institution Journal'' Volume 43, 1899 - Issue 255, pages 534-542.
