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• Hunting the Lions: or, The Land of the Negro, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Angola and the River Congo, vol. 2, by Joachim John Monteiro, illust. by Edward Fielding and Rose Monteiro (Gutenberg ebook)
• Angola and the River Congo, vol. 1, by Joachim John Monteiro, illust. by Edward Fielding and Rose Monteiro (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa. (Harper & brothers, 1856), by Charles John Andersson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa (Harper & Brothers, 1861), by Charles John Andersson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa (Dix, Edwards & Co. ;, 1857), by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont, Miller & Holman, Hurst & Blackett, and Edwards & Co Dix (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Africander; a plain tale of colonial life. (Unwin, 1896), by E. Clairmonte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Dreams, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)

• Dream life and real life : a little African story (Roberts Brothers, 1893), by Olive Schreiner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scenes and adventures in Africa. (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1873), by Robert Moffat, S. Douglas Wyeth, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)

• Costumes angolenses (Companhia Nacional Editora, 1890), by Ladislau Batalha (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basutoland: its legends and customs (Nicholas & co., 1903), by Minnie Martin and Alexander Street Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs, by Minnie Martin (Gutenberg ebook)

• Raças, usos e costumes dos indigenas da districto de Inhambane, acompanhado de um vocabulario em shitsua, guitonga e shishope (Imprensa nacional, 1910), by Augusto Cabral (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Aus Südwest-Afrikas schweren Tagen. (Weicher, 1909), by Paul Rohrbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Was Afrika mir gab und nahm; erlebnisse einer deutchen ansiedlerfrau in Südwestafrika ... (E.S. Mittler und sohn, 1911), by Margarethe Eckenbrecher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Reminiscences of an Old 'Un (London: E. Nash, 1911), by Frank Newton Streatfeild
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• The ochre people; scenes from a South African life. (St. Martin's Press, 1963), by Noni Jabavu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het leven in Zuid-Afrika (H.C.A. Campagne & zoon, 1896), by J H. Junius (page images at HathiTrust)
• South Africa at home (G. Newnes, Ltd., 1908), by Robert Hart Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From the heart of the veld (John Lane, 1916), by Madeline Alston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• South African traits (J. Gemmell, 1887), by James Mackinnon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches in South Africa illustrating the civil, moral, and religious condition of the native tribes : including journals of the author's travels in the interior, together with detailed accounts of the progress of the Christian missions, exhibiting the influence of Christianity in promoting civilization (J. Duncan, 1828), by John Philip, William Clowes, and James Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Hendrik's tales (Longmans, Green, 1904), by Arthur Owen Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of European descent (J.C. Juta, 1909), by Mary Frances Whalley and A. Eames-Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zidji; étude de moeurs sud-africaines. (Foyer Solidariste, 1911), by Henri Alexandre Junod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (C. L. Webster & company, 1894), by Max O'Rell (page images at HathiTrust)
• South Africa at home (G. Newnes, Ltd., 1908), by Robert Hart Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Canadian girl in South Africa. (W. Briggs, 1905), by E. Maud Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Het huiselik en maatschappelik leven van de Zuid-Afrikaner in de eerste helft der 18de eeuw. (Nijhoff, 1919), by F. C. Dominicus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Firman John Bull & co.; och dess stora filialer: Canada, Australien, Nya Zeland och Sydafrika (W. Bille, 1895), by Max O'Rell (page images at HathiTrust)
• African jungle (Gospel Trumpet, 1928), by A. M. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (The Cassell publishing co., 1895), by Max O'Rell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The past and future of the Kaffir races. In three parts. I. Their history. II. Their manners and customs. III. The means needful for their preservation and improvement. (The author, 1866), by William Clifford Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native social life : a short sketch of the home life, religion, arts and crafts, manners, customs, superstitions, and folk lore of some of the native tribes of South Africa (J. Jones, 1917), by S. G. Gilkes Aitchison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty South African years, journalistic, political social, theatrical and pioneering (H. Cranton Limited, 1919), by Barry Ronan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of life in South Africa from 1846 to the present day, with historical researches. (Davis, 1908), by J. M. Orpen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of the oriental nations : chiefly possessions of Great Britain, comprising ... a complete account of their history, religion, laws manners and customs, commercial resources, &c. (W.H. Allen, 1848), by Leitch Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half hours of leisure in South Africa : a holiday book (Jacques Dusseau, 1896), by L. de Beer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ons volkslewe; kultuur-historiese leesbook. (J. L. van Schaik, 1922), by B. Spoelstra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Under the Southern Cross : or, a woman's life work for Africa (God's Bible School and Revivalist, 1928), by Emma Hillmon Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Hendrik's Tales, by Arthur Owen Vaughan, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Het huiselik en maatschappelik leven van de Zuid-Afrikaner: in de eerste helft der 18de eeuw (in Dutch), by F. C. Dominicus (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Kalela Dance: Aspects of Social Relationships Among Urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia (Manchester, UK: Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute by the Manchester University Press, 1956), by J. Clyde Mitchell (HTML in the UK)
• Snap Shots From Sunny Africa (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1909), by Mrs. John M. Springer
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• Beyond the smoke that thunders (Oxford university press, 1940), by Lucy Pope. Mrs Cullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An African year (E. Arnold, 1912), by Cullen Gouldsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• An African year (Longmans, Green;, 1912), by Cullen Gouldsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Snap Shots From Sunny Africa (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1909), by Mrs. John M. Springer
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