Public Domain Books and Articles

Below is a listing of public domain books and articles; the titles are highly abbreviated. All links go to the Internet Archive. The items are listed in order by year of publication:

1. 1854: Koelle. Proverbs, Tales and Fables in Kanuri
2. 1857: Cape Monthly Magazine
3. 1861: Casalis. Basutos
4. 1861: Schlenker. A Collection of Temne Traditions
5. 1864: Bleek, W.. Reynard the Fox in South Africa
6. 1865: Burton, R.. Wit and Wisdom From West Africa
7. 1868: Callaway. Nursery Tales of the Zulus
8. 1870: Steere. Swahili Tales
9. 1874: Orpen. Folklore of the Bushmen
10. 1879: South African Folk-Lore Society Journal
11. 1880: Sibree. Great African Island
12. 1881: Swahili Stories
13. 1882: Macdonald. Africana
14. 1883: Sibree. Oratory, Songs, Legends, Folk-tales
15. 1884: Callaway. The Religious System of the Amazulu
16. 1884: Sibree. Malagasy Folk-tales
17. 1885: Schon. Magana Hausa
18. 1886: Theal. Kaffir Folk-lore
19. 1887: Madan. Kiungani
20. 1890: Ellis. The Eʻwe-speaking Peoples
21. 1891: Casati. Legends of the Lur People
22. 1891: Taylor. Giryama Vocabulary
23. 1891: Torrend. South African Bantu Languages
24. 1892: Elmslie. Folklore Tales of Central Africa
25. 1892: Macdonald. Bantu Legends
26. 1893: Stanley. My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
27. 1893: Ingram. The Story of a Gold Concession
28. 1893: Jephson. Stories Told in an African Forest
29. 1894: Chatelain. Folktales of Angola
30. 1894: Ellis. The Yoruba Speaking Peoples
31. 1896: Sibree. Madagascar Before the Conquest
32. 1897: Ruskin. Bamongo
33. 1898: Dennett. Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort
34. 1898: Freeman. Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman
35. 1900: Baskerville. The Flame Tree and Other Stories From Uganda
36. 1900: Dewar. Chinamwanga Stories
37. 1900: Akpabio. Sayings of the Wise: Ibibio Proverbs and Idioms
38. 1900: Universities Mission. The Golden Ship and Other Swahili Tales
39. 1901: Basset. Moorish Literature
40. 1901: Bateman. Zanzibar Tales
41. 1902: Cole. Notes on the Wagogo
42. 1903: Cronise. Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the Other Beef
43. 1903: Martin. Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs
44. 1904: Vaughan. Old Hendrik's Tales
45. 1904: Johnston. Uganda Protectorate
46. 1904: Kidd. The Essential Kafir
47. 1904: Nassau. Fetichism in West Africa
48. 1904: Kirk. Somali Tales
49. 1905: Hollis. The Masai: Their Language and Folklore
50. 1905: Merrick. Hausa Proverbs
51. 1905: Kirk. Grammar of the Somali Language
52. 1905: Samuelson. Some Zulu Customs
53. 1905: Cobham. Animal Stories From Calabar
54. 1905: Lederbogen. Duala Fables
55. 1906: James. The Man Elephant
56. 1906: Johnston. Liberia
57. 1906: Kidd. Savage Childhood : a Study of Kafir Children
58. 1906: Stafford. Animal Fables From the Dark Continent
59. 1906: Werner. Natives of British Central Africa
60. 1906: Maxwell. Calabar Stories
61. 1906: Sayce. Cairene Folklore
62. 1907: Rattray. Some Folklore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja
63. 1908: Bourhill. Fairy Tales From South Africa
64. 1908: Jacottet. The Treasury of Basuto Lore
65. 1908: Madan. Lala, Lamba, and Wisa Stories
66. 1908: Charlton. Hausa Reading Book
67. 1908: Kidd. Bull of the Kraal
68. 1908: Lane. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
69. 1908: Migeod. Mende Language
70. 1908: Green. Folklore From Tangier
71. 1909: Camphor. Missionary Story Sketches
72. 1909: Frobenius. Childhood of Man
73. 1909: Hollis. The Nandi: Their Language and Folklore
74. 1909: Moore. We Two in West Africa
75. 1909: Parkinson. Yoruba Folklore
76. 1909: Weeks. Leopard in Maize Farm
77. 1909: Willans. Konnoh People
78. 1910: Dayrell. Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria, West Africa.
79. 1910: Lang. Fairy Books
80. 1910: Tremearne. Fables and Fairy Tales for Little Folk
81. 1910: Honey. South African Folktales
82. 1910: Thomas. Edo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria
83. 1910: Hobley. Akamba Folklore
84. 1910: Johnston. Grenfell Congo
85. 1910: Routledge. The Akikuyu of British East Africa
86. 1910: Theal. The Yellow and Dark-skinned People of Africa
87. 1910: Thompson. Bisharin Folktales
88. 1910: Tremearne. Fifty Hausa Folktales
89. 1910: Tremearne. Specimens of Hausa
90. 1911: Bleek, W.. Specimens of Bushman Folklore
91. 1911: Roscoe. Baganda Folklore
92. 1911: Beech. The Suk: Their Language and Folklore
93. 1911: Fisher. Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda
94. 1911: Tremearne. Hausa Folklore
95. 1912: Nassau. Where Animals Talk
96. 1912: Westermann. The Shilluk People
97. 1912: Junod. The Life of a South African Tribe
98. 1912: Talbot. In the Shadow of the Bush
99. 1912: Kitching. Backwaters of the Nile
100. 1912: Tremearne. The Tailed Head-hunters of Nigeria
101. 1912: Barrett. A'kikuyu Fairy Tales
102. 1912: Krug. Bulu Legends
103. 1913: Tremearne. Hausa Superstitions and Customs
104. 1913: Frobenius. The Voice of Africa
105. 1913: Rattray. Hausa Folklore
106. 1913: Dayrell. Ikom Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria
107. 1913: Torday. Camp and Tramp in African Wilds
108. 1913: Weeks. Among Congo Cannibals
109. 1913: Lomax. Stories of an African Princes: Yoruba Tales
110. 1913: Werner. Galla Legends
111. 1914: Ellis. Negro Culture in West Africa.
112. 1914: Metelerkamp. Outa Karel's Stories
113. 1914: Stigand. Swahili Tales
114. 1914: Thomas. Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria
115. 1914: Weeks. Among the Primitive Bakongo
116. 1914: Schwab. Bulu Folk-tales
117. 1915: Littmann. Tales of the Tigre Tribes
118. 1915: Foulkes. Angass Manual
119. 1915: Nassau. Batanga
120. 1915: Talbot. Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People
121. 1915: Cummins. Annuak Fable
122. 1916: Rattray. Ashanti Proverbs
123. 1916: Banfield. Nupe Proverbs
124. 1916: Jones. Sechuana Reader
125. 1916: St. Lys. Folklore, Folktales and Proverbs From Southwest Africa
126. 1916: Thomas. Sierra Leone: Timne Stories
127. 1916: Holland. Banyanja
128. 1917: Barker. West African Folktales
129. 1917: Stannus. Wayao of Nyasaland
130. 1917: Dornan. Tati Bushmen
131. 1917: Parsons. 10 Tales of Cape Verde
132. 1918: Thomas. Stories From the Awka Neighbourhood
133. 1919: Bender. African Jungle Tales
134. 1919: McPherson. Native Fairy Tales of South Africa
135. 1919: Barker. Gold Coast Folklore
136. 1919: Bundy. Folktales From Liberia
137. 1919: Schwab. Bulu Tales (1919)
138. 1919: Shaw. Dinka Animal Stories
139. 1920: Smith. The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
140. 1920: Burlin. Songs and Tales From the Dark Continent
141. 1920: Cardinall. Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
142. 1920: Sayce. Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folklore
143. 1920: Thomas. Folktales of the Edo-speaking Peoples
144. 1921: Weeks. Congo Life and Jungle Stories
145. 1921: Ruskin. Mongo Proverbs and Fables
146. 1921: Torrend. Specimens of Bantu Folklore
147. 1921: Wyndham. Myths of Ífè
148. 1921: Pratt-Chadwick. The Alo Man; Stories From the Congo
149. 1921: Basden. Among the Ibos of Nigeria
150. 1922: Budge. Kebra Nagast
151. 1922: Baskerville. King of the Snakes
152. 1922: Boas and Simango. Vandau Tales
153. 1922: Cerulli. Galla of Southern Abyssinia: Proverbs Riddles
154. 1922: Stirke. Barotseland
155. 1922: Bishop. Selection of Sironga Folklore
156. 1922: Bell. Umbundu Tales
157. 1922: Hallowell. Two Folktales From Nyasaland
158. 1922: Schwab. Bulu Tales
159. 1923: Rickert. Bojabi Tree
160. 1923: Driberg. Nilotic Uganda
161. 1923: Roscoe. Banyankole
162. 1923: Roscoe. Bakitara
163. 1924: Bleek, D.. The Mantis and His Friends
164. 1924: Dundas. Kilimanjaro and Its People
165. 1924: Fergusson. Nuer Beast Tales
166. 1925: Werner. Mythology of All Races: African
167. 1925: Brown. Among the Bantu Nomads
168. 1925: Torday. On the Trail of the Bushongo
169. 1925: Dornan. Pygmies and Bushmen
170. 1925: Hilton-Hasluck-Halliday. Algerian Folktales
171. 1925: JenningsBramly. Bisharin Fables
172. 1925: Woodward. Bondei Folktales
173. 1926: Waters. Cameos From the Kraal