Africa, Central -- Social life and customs
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Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa (A Convert to Christianity); With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants (Detroit: G.. E. Pomeroy and Co., 1854), by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, ed. by Samuel Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of an African Chief (New York: C. Scribner and Sons, 1935), by Akiki K. Nyabongo, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps, illust. by Eleanor Maroney (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo (ca. 1917), by William H. Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Africa, Central -- Colonial influence- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911 (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Adolf Friedrich
- Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)
- Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade
- In Darkest Africa: or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Henry M. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Samuel White Baker (Gutenberg text)
- The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Richard Francis Burton
- The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
- Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon and Through the Back Gate of the Congo State (London et al.: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by T. Broadwood Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855 (5 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1858), by Heinrich Barth
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Thomas Wallace Knox, contrib. by Henry M. Stanley
- Explorations in Africa, by Dr. David Livingstone, and Others, Giving a Full Account of the Stanley-Livingstone Expedition of Search, Under the Patronage of the New York "Herald", As Furnished by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley (1872), ed. by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, contrib. by David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Karl Kumm
- From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa (London: J. Murray, 1908), by A. F. R. Wollaston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa From the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Hermann von Wissmann, trans. by Minna J. A. Bergmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Correspondenzblatt der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft (2 volumes bound together, covering 1873-1878), by Afrikanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland
- A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi, With an Account of the River-Life on the Congo (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889), by John Reinhardt Werner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Children of the Wind (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923), by M. P. Shiel (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The African Queen (1935), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Zambezia (partial serial archives)
- The Congo Brazzaville, Gateway to Central Africa (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Zaire: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1994), ed. by Sandra W. Meditz and Tim Merrill
- Belgian Congo (2 volumes; 1959-1960), by Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi, trans. by F. H. Heldt and C. Heldt
- Belgium's Policy in the Belgian Congo (1956), by L. Pétillon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Belgian Colonial Policy (1943), by Albert de Vleeschauwer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Belgian Congo, Reservoir of the Allies (1942), by Arthur Wauters (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York Bar, Attorney and Counsellor to Leopold II., King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of the Congo, in Matters Touching His Rights and Possessions Abroad, in Reply to Memorial Presented to the President of the United States of America Concerning Affairs in the Congo State by the Congo Reform Association, Supported by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Aborigines' Protection Society (1905), by Henry I. Kowalsky
- Congo Conference: Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting a Communication From the Secretary of State in Relation to the Congo Conference (Washington: GPO, 1885), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
- Congo Conference: Report of the Secretary of State, and Correspondence in Relations to the Affairs of the Independent State of the Congo (Washington: GPO, 1886), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Congo Independent State: A Report on a Voyage of Enquiry (London: Williams and Norgate, 1906), by William Geoffrey Bouchard de Montmorency Mountmorres (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Congo Life and Folklore (London: Religious Tract Society, 1911), by John H. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Congo State is Not a Slave State: A Reply to Mr. E.D. Morel's Pamphlet Entitled "The Congo Slave State" (London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1903), by Demetrius Charles Boulger
- The Congo State: or, The Growth of Civilisation in Central Africa (London: W. Thacker and Co.; Kolkata and Shimla: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1898), by Demetrius Charles Boulger
- Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (Accounts and Papers v62, primarily consisting of Casement's report on the Congo; 1904), by Great Britain Foreign Office, contrib. by Roger Casement (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Further Correspondence Respecting the Independent State of the Congo (including correspondence on taxation of natives; ca. 1909), by Great Britain Foreign Office (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Independent State of the Congo and International Law (ca. 1903), by Ernest Nys (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An International Protectorate of the Congo River (London: Printed by Pewtress and Co., 1883), by Travers Twiss
- A Report Upon the Congo-State and Country, to the President of the Republic of the United States of America (1890), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Sacred Mission of Civilization: To Which Peoples Should the Benefits Be Extended? The Belgian Thesis (1953), by Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Belgian Congo at War (second edition, 1943), by Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
- Belgian Congo at War (1942), by Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- British Possessions II: The Congo (published as volume 16 of Peace Handbooks; London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leopold the Second, King of the Belgians (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1910), by A. S. Rappoport (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Belgium, With a Chapter on the Congo Free State (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1900), by Carlyle Smythe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portugal and the Congo: A Statement (London: E. Stanford, 1883), by Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (multiple formats at archive.org)
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