Africa on CD

Algeria, Angola, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire.

Historical background and context for understanding today's news.

This CD contains the full text of 16 "Country Studies" published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Each country study is presented as a single document in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search.

In addition, we include:

• The CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags.
• 146 classic books related to Africa, all in plain text form, and
• images of Ethiopia in 1898 (illustrations from "With the Armies of Menelik II)

With the exception of Madagascar, each of the Country Studies follows the same template, consisting of five chapters:

• Chapter 1 -- Historical Setting
• Chapter 2 -- The Society and Its Environment
• Chapter 3 -- The Economy
• Chapter 4 -- Government and Politics
• Chapter 5 -- National Security

You can see the complete table of contents below and suggestions on how to get the most out of your plain-text books on CD ROM at our home Web site. Use the back button on your browser to return here.

Table of Contents


Country Studies

• Algeria
• Angola
• Chad
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Ivory Coast
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Mauritania
• Nigeria
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Uganda
• Zaire

2007 CIA World Factbook (with maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world). This is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

The Folk-Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia by Enrico Cerulli. Primary source for folk tales, history, legends, and culture of the Galla/Oromo people, the majority cultural group in Ethiopia. The texts are presented in the original Oromo, with translations and detailed notes and explanations.

Ancient Times

• Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
• The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Andrew Reisner
• Egyptian Ideas of the Futuire Life by E.A. Budge
• L'Egyptologie by G. Maspero (in French)
• L'Archeologie Egyptienne by G. Maspero (in French)
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt Relatiave to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard Kind, 1918
• Lettres d'Egypte et de Nubia en 1828 et 1829 by Champollion
• Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich, 1910
• The Treasury of Ancient Egypt by Arthur Weigall
• Within the Temple of Isis by Bell Wagner

African History

• African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
• The American REvolution and the Boer War
• The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Peter Nielsen, 1922
• The Boer in Peace and War by Artur Mann, 1900
• Boer Politics by Yves Guyot
• Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by A.G. Hales
• Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Princess Catherine Radziwill
• Douze Ans de Sejours dans la Haute-Ethiopie, volume 1, by Arnauld d'Abbadie
• Four Months Besieged, the Story of Ladysmith by H.H.S. Pearse
• From Aldershot to Pretoria, a Story of Christian Work Among our Troops in South Africa by R.W. Allen
• From Capetown to Ladysmith, an Unfinished Record of the South African War by G.W. Steevens
• General Gordon, Saint and Soldier by J. Wardle
• The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle
• History of Liberia by J.H.T. McPherson
• In the Ranks of the C.I.V. [Boer War] by Driver Erskine Childers
• In the Shadow of Death by General P.H. Kritzinger and R.D. McDonald
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olandah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
• Ladysmith, the Diary of a Siege by H.W. Nevinson
• Land Und Volk in Afrika (1865-1870) by Gerhard Rohlfs (in German)
• Un Mois en Afrique by Pierre-Napoleon Bonaparte
• in French with accents
• in French without accents
• Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia by Henry Blanc
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa by Venture Smith, 1798
• Native Life in South Africa by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
• Native Races and the War [Boer War] by Josephine Butler
• Origin of the Boer War Revealed by C.H. Thomas
• People of Africa by Edith How
• The Petticoat Commando or Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt
• Une Politique Europeenne by Etienne Grosclaude (in French)
• Principal Navigators of the English Nation, volume 11, Africa, collected by Richard Haklyut
• Quinze Jours en Egypte by Fernand Neuray
• in French with accents
• in French without accents
• Record of a Regiment of the Line by Colonel Jacson, 1908
• Robert Moffat the Missionary Hero of Kuruman by David Deane
• Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain by Hugh Williams
• The Siege of Kimberley: Its Humorous and Social Side 1899-1902 by T. Phelan, 1913
• Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Captain Robert Dolbey 1918
• Some Historical Account of Guinea 1771 by Anthony Benezet
• South African Memories by Lady Sarah Wilson, 1909
• Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by Captain A.T. Mahan
• Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900 by George Henry Makins
• Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
• The Transvaal from Within by J.P. Fitzpatrick
• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated from the French by Samuel Johnson
• White Queen of the Cannibals: the Stoy of Mary Slessor of Calabar by A. J. Bueltmann
• A Winter Tour in Suoth Africa by Sir Frederick Young
• With the Boer Forces by Howard C. Hillegas
• With Botha in the Field by Moore Ritchie
• Woman's Endurance by A.D. Luckhoff
• A Woman's Part in a Revolution by Mrs. John Hammond

European Travel and Exploration of Africa

• Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816
• John Buffa
• Travels through the Empire of Morocco, 1810
• Richard Burton
• First Footsteps in East Africa; or an Exploration of Harar
• Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Samuel White Baker
• The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources
• In the Heart of Africa
• Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
• S.L. Bensusan
• Morocco
• Alexander Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer
• Translator's Introduction to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
• From Entotto to the River Baro
• With the Armies of Menelik II
• Images of Ethiopia in 1898, illustrations from the 1900 edition of With the Armies of Menelik II
• Richard Burton
• First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar
• To the Gold Coast for Gold
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Winston Spencer Churchill
• London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
• Joseph Corry
• Observations upon the Windward coast of Africa (1805-1806) by Joseph Corry
• Richard Harding Davis
• The Congo and Coasts of Africa
• Mary Kingsley
• Travels in West Africa
• David Livingstone and Henry Stanley
• How I Found Livingstone by Henry Stanley
• The Last Journals of David Lingston in Central Africa from 1865 to His Death
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone
• The Personal Life of David Livingstone by W. Garden Blaikie
• A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 by David Livingstone
• John T. McCutcheon
• In Africa, Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
• Budgett Meakin
• Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
• Mungo Park
• Life and Travels of Mungo Park
• Travels in the Interior of Africa
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• James Richardson
• Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the years 1850-1851
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Travels in Morocco
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Gerhard Rohlfs
• Beitrage zur Entdeckung und Erforschung Africa's, Berichte aus den Jahren 1870-1875
• Von Tripolis nach Alexandrien
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Henry Salt
• Narriative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar
• John Hanning Speke
• The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
• What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
• J. Vilbort
• En Kabylie: Voyage d'une Parisienne au Djurjura

Literature

• Essai sur la literature merveilleuse des noirs by F.V. Equilbecq, volume 1, 1913
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Beasts of Tarzan
• Jungle Tales
• Return of Tarzan
• Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Tarzan of the Apes
• Tarzan the Terrible
• Tarzan the Untamed
• Harry Collingwood
• Congo Rovers, a Story of the Slave Squadron
• Dick Maitland, a Tale of Unknown Africa
• George Manville Fenn
• The Black Bar
• Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
• A Dash From Diamond City
• Off to the Wilds, Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
• Ernest Glanville
• In Serach of the Okapi, a Story of Adventure in Central Africa
• H. Ryder Haggard
• Allan and the Holy Flower
• Allan Quatermain
• Allan's Wife
• Ancient Allan
• Cleopatra
• Hunter Quatermain's Story
• King Solomon's Mines
• Queen Sheba's Ring
• She and Allan
• She
• Smith and the Pharoahs
• G.A. Henty
• Through Three Campaigns, A Story a Chitral, Tirah, and Ashanti
• Lewis Hough
• For Fortune and Glory, a Story of the Soudan War
• Samuel Johnson
• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated from the French by Samuel Johnson
• Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
• W.H.G. Kingston
• African Trader
• Great African Travellers from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
• Ned Garth, Made Prisioner in Africa, a Tale of the Slave Trade
• The Two Supercargoes, Adventures in Savage Africa
• Captain Marryat
• The Mission or Scenes in Africa Written for Young People
• The Mission in Africa
• Ouida
• Under Two Flags
• Captain Mayne Reid
• Bush Boys
• Olive Schreiner (South African)
• Dream Life and Real Life
• Dreams
• Story of an African Farm
• Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
• Woman and Labour
• William Charles Scully
• Kafir Stories, Seven Short Stories
• Stewart Edward White
• African Camp Fires
• The Leopard Woman, 1916