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• Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Roy Richard Grinker (HTML at UC Press)

• Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Roy Richard Grinker (HTML at UC Press)

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

• Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE (c2008), by Rhonda M. Gonzales (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024), by Vinay R. Kamat (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (2 volumes; London: Tinsley, 1872), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page image files at burtoniana.org)

• Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael Fleisher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael Fleisher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael Fleisher (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last of the Masai (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Sidney Langford Hinde and Hildegarde Hinde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa (Boston: Arena Pub. Co.; London: Saxon and co., 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men and Creatures in Uganda (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1933), by John Bland-Sutton (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Studies of Nutrition: The Physique and Health of Two African Tribes (London: HMSO, 1931), by John Boyd Orr and John Langton Gilks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies of Nutrition: The Physique and Health of Two African Tribes (London: HMSO, 1931), by John Boyd Orr and John Langton Gilks (page images at HathiTrust)

• When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Fadiman (HTML at UC Press)

• Swahili Tales, As Told by Natives of Zanzibar, With an English Translation (in Swahili and English; London: Bell and Daldy, 1870), by Edward Steere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations Among the Mombasa Swahili (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marc J. Swartz (HTML at UC Press)

• The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations Among the Mombasa Swahili (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marc J. Swartz (HTML at UC Press)

• The Wayao of Nyasaland (reprinted from Harvard African Studies v3; 1919), by Hugh Stannus Stannus (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Uganda Protectorate (2 volumes, possibly from different editions; 1902-1904), by Harry Johnston, illust. by J. G. Bartholomew (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda (London et al.: The Sheldon Press, 1922), by Rosetta Baskerville, illust. by Mrs. E. G. Morris (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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 Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda (London: T. F. Unwin, c1923), by Jack Herbert Driberg, contrib. by Robert Thorne Coryndon (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• Uganda in Transformation, 1876-1926 (London: Church Missionary Society, 1926), by Herbert Gresford Jones (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda (London et al.: Marshall Bros., ca. 1911), by Ruth B. Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bunyoro Agreement, 1955; Endagaano ya Bunyoro eya 1955 (in English and Nyoro; ca. 1955) (page images and PDF with commentary at wdl.org)

• Uganda in Transformation, 1876-1926 (London: Church Missionary Society, 1926), by Herbert Gresford Jones (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Uganda in Transformation, 1876-1926 (London: Church Missionary Society, 1926), by Herbert Gresford Jones (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Uganda's Katikiro in England: Being the Offical Account of His Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1904), by Ham Mukasa, trans. by Ernest Millar, contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongst the Boloki and Other Congo tribes, With a Description of Their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion, and Laws (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by John H. Weeks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Congo Natives: An Ethnographic Album (1912), by Frederick Starr (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)
• Etudes Bakongo: Histoire et Sociologie (in French; Brussels: Goemaere, 1920), by Joseph van Wing, contrib. by Édouard de Jonghe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fresh Tracks in the Belgian Congo, From the Uganda Border to the Mouth of the Congo (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., ca. 1925), by Hermann Norden (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)
• Land and Peoples of the Kasai: Being a Narrative of a Two Years' Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by M. W. Hilton-Simpson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongst the Boloki and Other Congo tribes, With a Description of Their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion, and Laws (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by John H. Weeks (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)
• Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
  • both volumes together: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • both volumes together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • photocopied volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The White Paper on the Real Causes and Consequences of the Attempted Genocide Against the Tutsi Ethny in Burundi (1972), by Burundi Ambassade (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Crime of the Congo (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Das Congoverbrechen (The Crime of the Congo translated into German; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1909), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Curt Abel-Musgrave (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Crime du Congo (in French; Paris: Société d'Édition et de Publications, ca. 1910), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• King Leopold's Rule in Africa (London: W. Heinemann, 1904), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 (revised edition; Manchester, UK: National Labour Press, 1920), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Etudes Bakongo: Histoire et Sociologie (in French; Brussels: Goemaere, 1920), by Joseph van Wing, contrib. by Édouard de Jonghe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• "Yakusu", the Very Heart of Africa: Being Some Account of the Protestant Mission at Stanley Falls, Upper Congo (London and Edinburgh: Marshall Bros., ca. 1911), by Herbert Sutton Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The White Paper on the Real Causes and Consequences of the Attempted Genocide Against the Tutsi Ethny in Burundi (1972), by Burundi Ambassade (multiple formats at archive.org)

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