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• Bemba (African people)
• Beti (African people)
• Bulu (African people)
• Chiga (African people)
• Ekoi (African people)
• Fang (African people)
• Fingo (African people)
• Ganda (African people)
• Gisu (African people)
• Gogo (African people)
• Haya (African people)
• Hehe (African people)
• Herero (African people)
• Holoholo (African people)
• Ila (African people)
• Kamba (African people)
• Kaonde (African people)
• Kavirondo (African people)
• Kikuyu (African people)
• Kongo (African people)
• Kuba (African people)
• Kwiri (African people)
• Lamba (Zambian and Congolese (Democratic Republic) people)
• Lega (African people)
• Lozi (African people)
• Luba (African people)
• Makonde (African people)
• Ngombe (African people)
• Nguni (African people)
• Ngwato (African people)
• Nyamwezi (African people)
• Nyankole (African people)
• Nyoro (African people)
• Ovambo (African people)
• Pedi (African people)
• Rundi (African people)
• Safwa (African people)
• Shambala (African people)
• Shona (African people)
• Soga (African people)
• Songye (African people)
• Swazi (African people)
• Tonga (Zambezi people)
• Tsonga (African people)
• Tumbuka (African people)
• Venda (African people)
• Wanga (African people)
• Yao (African people)
• Zigula (African people)

• Bantus
• Bantu peoples

• The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda protectorate; the third part of the report of the Mackie ethnological expedition to Central Africa (The Unviersity press, 1924), by John Roscoe and Mackie ethnological expedition to Central Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of negro religion; being a contribution to the study of Indo-Bantu comparative religion (Edmondston-Scott, 1910), by W. J. Edmondston-Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The religion of lower races, as illustrated by the African Bantu (Macmillan, 1923), by Edwin William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The soul of the Bantu; a sympathetic study of the magico-religious practices and beliefs of the Bantu tribes of Africa (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928), by William Charles Willoughby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race problems in the new Africa (Clarendon Press, 1923), by William Charles Willoughby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sociétés bantoues du Congo belge et les problèmes de la politique indigène; étude de la politique coloniale adoptée au Congo belge et de ses problèmes dans l'ordre sociologique, politique et économique. (E. Bruylant, 1920), by Georges Van der Kerken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bantu, past and present; an ethnographical & historical study of the native races of South Africa (W. Green & Son, limited, 1920), by S. M. Molema (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Among the Zulus and Amatongas: with sketches of the natives, their language and customs; and the country, products, climate, wild animals, &c. being principally contributions to magazines and newspapers (Edmonston & Douglas; [etc., etc.], 1875), by David Leslie and William Henry Drummond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sous les manguiers en fleurs. Histoires de Bantous. (Éditions de Belles-Lettres, 1922), by J. M. Jadot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Native tribes of the Transvaal (H.M.S.O., printed by Harrison and Sons, 1905), by R. H. Massie and Great Britain War Office General Staff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die erste Mission unter den Bantustämmen Ostafrikas (Aschendorffschen, 1917), by Laurenz Kilger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wirtschaft der Bantuneger in Kamerun ... (Druck von E. Glausch, 1912), by David Chasin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Bantu-Stämme Süd-Afrikas. (Pries, 1890), by Barend Johannes Haarhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bantu-stämme Süd-Afrikas, eine ethnologisch-mythologische Studie. (G. Fock, 1890), by Barend Johannes Haarhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethnography and condition of South Africa before A.D. 1505; being a description of the inhabitants of the country south of the Zambesi and Kunene rivers in A.D. 1505, together with all that can be learned from ancient books and modern research of the condition of South Africa from the earliest time until its discovery by Europeans (G. Allen and Unwin, ltd., 1919), by George McCall Theal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urwald-Dokumente : vier Jahre unter den Crossflussnegern Kameruns (D. Reimer, 1908), by Alfred Mansfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les sociétés bantoues du Congo belge et les problèmes de la politique indigène. (E. Bruylant, 1919), by Georges van der Kerken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Agrarverfassung der Bantu im äquatorialen Afrika. (Druck "Der Gesellige", 1917), by Otto Remer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The land of the heart of Livingstone; or, The genius of the Bantu (Published by the author, 1920), by N. B. Ghormley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bantu sociology (Allen, Lane & Scott, 1914), by Robert Hamill Nassau (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the heart of Bantuland; a record of twenty-nine years' pioneering in Central Africa among the Bantu peoples, with a description of their habits, customs, secret societies & languages (J.B. Lippincott Company;, 1922), by Dugald Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Z plavčíka pohlavárem černochů (Nákl. České grafické unie, 1923), by L. Aznov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bantu Beliefs and Magic, With Particular Reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba Tribes of Kenya Colony; Together With Some Reflections on East Africa After the War (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1922), by C. W. Hobley, contrib. by James George Frazer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of Bantu folk-lore from northern Rhodesia (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd.;, 1921), by J. Torrend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of negro religion; being a contribution to the study of Indo-Bantu comparative religion (Edmondston-Scott, 1910), by W. J. Edmondston-Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Bantu-stämme Süd-Afrikas, eine ethnologisch-mythologische Studie. (G. Fock, 1890), by Barend Johannes Haarhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bantu Beliefs and Magic: With particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony; together with some reflections on East Africa after the war, by C. W. Hobley, contrib. by James George Frazer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Home life in Kenya Colony (American Friends Board of Missions, 1952), by Alta J. Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bantu studies and general South African anthropology v.1 (Kraus Reprint, 1921), by University of the Witwatersrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bantu studies. (University of Witwatersrand Press, 1921), by University of the Witwatersrand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Z plavčíka pohlavárem černochů (Nákl. České grafické unie, 1923), by L. Aznov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Quelques peuplades du Tanganika (Monnom, 1905), by Charles Godefroid Félix François Delhaise (page images at HathiTrust)

• Univers culturel et religieux du peuple béti. (Impr. St.-Paul, 1970), by P. Mviena (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An African trail (The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1917), by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie and Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• An African trail (The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1917), by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie and Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chiga of western Uganda. (Published for International African Institute by Oxford University Press, 1957), by May M. Edel (page images at HathiTrust)

• In the Shadow of the Bush (New York: G. H. Doran Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Percy Amaury Talbot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In the shadow of the Bush (W. Heinemann, 1912), by Percy Amaury Talbot and Alexander Street Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the shadow of the bush (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Percy Amaury Talbot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Pangwe; völkerkundliche Monographie eines westafrikanischen Negerstammes; Ergebnisse der Lübecker Pangwe-expedition 1907-1909 und früherer Forschungen 1904-1907 (E. Wasmuth, A.-G., 1913), by Günter Tessmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afrikanische Parallelen zur biblischen Urgeschichte (s.n.], 1927), by A. J. Wagener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pangwe. Völkerkundliche Monographie eines westafrikanischen Negerstammes. Ergebnisse der Lübecker Pangwe-Expedition 1907-1909 und früherer Forschungen 1904-1907 (E. Wasmuth, 1913), by Günter Tessmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chez les Fang, ou Quinze années de séjour au Congo français. (Société Saint-Augustin, 1912), by H. Trilles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kinderspiele der Pangwe. (B.G. Teubner, 1912), by Günter Tessmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Correspondence with reference to the principles, conditions, and detailed arrangements on which the Fingo exodus has been carried out. (Saul Solomon, 1867), by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament. House of Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda (London et al.: Marshall Bros., ca. 1911), by Ruth B. Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Uganda in Transformation, 1876-1926 (London: Church Missionary Society, 1926), by Herbert Gresford Jones (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• The Mailo System in Buganda: A Preliminary Case Study in African Land Tenure (1965), by Henry W. West (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• The Baganda; an account of their native customs and beliefs (Macmillan and co., limited, 1911), by John Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Baganda at home. With one hundred pictures of life and work in Uganda. (The Religious Tract Society, 1908), by C. W. Hattersley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early civilization; an introduction to anthropology (A.A. Knopf, 1922), by Alexander Goldenweiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Baganda at home. With one hundred pictures of life and work in Uganda. (The Religious Tract Society, 1908), by C. W. Hattersley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Baganda at home (The Religious Tract Society, 1908), by C. W. Hattersley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of women in Uganda (1919), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)

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