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Vai (African people)

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• Vei (African people)
• Vei (African tribe)
• Vy (African people)
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• Narrative of an Expedition Into The Vy Country of West Africa, and the Discovery of a System of Syllabic Writing, Recently Invented by the Natives of the Vy Tribe (London: Seeleys et al., 1849), by S. W. Koelle
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• Negro Culture in West Africa (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. (Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess (Cleveland: Lauer and Mattill, 1891), by Joseph J. Walters
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Negro Culture in West Africa (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. (Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tribes of the Liberian hinterland. (The Museum, 1947), by George Schwab and George W. Harley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on the Poro in Liberia (The Museum, 1941), by George W. Harley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia, old and new; a study of its social and economic background with possibilities of development (Doubleday, Doran, 1928), by James L Sibley and Diedrich Westermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary story sketches; folk-lore from Africa. (Books for Libraries Press, 1909), by Alexander Priestley Camphor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary story sketches, folk-lore from Africa (Jennings and Graham;, 1909), by Alexander Priestley Camphor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masks as agents of social control in northeast Liberia. (The Museum, 1950), by George W. Harley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Missionary story sketches, folk-lore from Africa (Cincinnati : Jennings and Graham; New York : Eaton and Mains, [1909], 1909), by Alexander Priestly Camphor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of William G. Crocker, late missionary in West Africa among the Bassas : including a history of the Bassa mission (Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1848), by Rebecca B. Stetson Medbery, William H. Wardwell, and Kendall Gould (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro Culture in West Africa (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary story sketches, folk-lore from Africa (Jennings and Graham;, 1909), by Alexander Priestley Camphor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. (Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Glimpses of life in Africa (American Tract Society, 1857), by Anna M. Scott, H. Roy Scott, and American Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grebo Kona Ah Te: or, History of the Greboes (in Grebo; New York: Printed by E. O. Jenkins, 1860), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of the origin, development and condition of missions among the Sherbro and Mendi tribes in western Africa (Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren Publishing House, 1885., 1885), by D. K. Flickinger and William McKee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inventaire sommaire des archives communales antérieures à 1790 (Impr. veuve Ignon, 1885), by Mende, Ferdinand André, and Archives de la Lozère (page images at HathiTrust)

• Off hand sketches of men and things in western Africa (Published by order of the trustees of the United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1857), by D. K. Flickinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mendiland memories : reflections and anticipations (H. Hooks :, 1926), by William Vivian and United Methodist Church (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England. (B. White and Son [etc.], 1791), by John Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• A transformed colony, Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth (J.B. Lippincott ;, 1910), by T. J. Alldridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sierra Leone cannibals, with notes on their history, religion, and customs (Hodges, Figgis, & Co. ;, 1912), by R. G. Berry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England. (London : B. White and Son [etc.], 1791., 1791), by John Matthews and Jr. Collection Henry H. Bucher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Everyday Life Among the Head-Hunters, and Other Experiences from East To West (London et al: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905), by Dorothy Cator (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sherbro of Sierra Leone; a preliminary report on the work of the University museum's Expedition to West Africa, 1937. (The University press, University of Pennsylvania, 1938), by Henry Usher Hall and University of Pennsylvania. (1937) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the origin, development and condition of missions among the Sherbro and Mendi tribes in western Africa (Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren Publishing House, 1885., 1885), by D. K. Flickinger and William McKee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sherbro and the Sherbros : or, A native African's account of his country and people. (Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren publishing house, 1886., 1886), by Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Sherbro mission, West Africa under the direction of the Missionary society of the United Brethren in Christ. (Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren pub. house, 1874., 1874), by William McKee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast (New York: Berghahn Books, 2023), by Anaïs Ménard (JSTOR ebook)

• Off hand sketches of men and things in western Africa (Published by order of the trustees of the United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1857), by D. K. Flickinger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast (New York: Berghahn Books, 2023), by Anaïs Ménard (JSTOR ebook)

• Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960) (Leiden: Brill, 2015), by Alexander Keese (JSTOR ebook)

• The black prince : a true story : being an account of the life and death of Naimbanna, an African king's son, who arrived in England in the year 1791, and set sail on his return in June, 1793. (Sold by J. Evans and Co. Printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts, No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield :, 1811), by Samuel Hazard, John Hatchard, John Evans, and John Lee (page images at HathiTrust)