This page brings together free pdf books about Africa. Our collection covers dozens of topics related to Africa travel, early exploration, regional ecology, archaeology, colonial history, and cultural studies. Materials range from older public domain works for free download to best modern books.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Clicking our topics usually works better than searching Internet Archive directly.
The sections below Topics provide links to foreign news translations, vintage audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
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Browse Africa Books PDF Topics & Historic Voyages
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to pdf books on African geographic surveys, colonial timelines, and cultural records. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable eBooks and textbooks. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by years of publication, language, or specific subjects.
Regional Africa Books PDF Directories
African Countries History Download & Description Logs
- Algeria
- Algeria Description and travel
- Algeria History
- Angola
- Angola Description and travel
- Angola History
- Benin
- Benin Description and travel
- Benin History
- Botswana
- Botswana Description and travel
- Botswana History
- Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso Description and travel
- Burkina Faso History
- Burundi
- Burundi Description and travel
- Burundi History
- Cabo Verde
- Cabo Verde Description and travel
- Cabo Verde History
- Cameroon
- Cameroon Description and travel
- Cameroon History
- Central African Republic
- Central African Republic Description and travel
- Central African Republic History
- Chad
- Chad Description and travel
- Chad History
- Comoros
- Comoros Description and travel
- Comoros History
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the Description and travel
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the History
- Congo, Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the Description and travel
- Congo, Republic of the History
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Cote d’Ivoire Description and travel
- Cote d’Ivoire History
- Djibouti
- Djibouti Description and travel
- Djibouti History
- Egypt
- Egypt Description and Travel
- Egypt History
- Equatorial Guinea
- Equatorial Guinea Description and travel
- Equatorial Guinea History
- Eritrea
- Eritrea Description and travel
- Eritrea History
- Eswatini
- Eswatini Description and travel
- Eswatini History
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia Description and travel
- Ethiopia History
- Gabon
- Gabon Description and travel
- Gabon History
- Gambia
- Gambia Description and travel
- Gambia History
- Ghana
- Ghana Description and travel
- Ghana History
- Guinea
- Guinea Description and travel
- Guinea History
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guinea-Bissau Description and travel
- Guinea-Bissau History
- Kenya
- Kenya Description and Travel
- Kenya History
- Lesotho
- Lesotho Description and travel
- Lesotho History
- Liberia
- Liberia Description and travel
- Liberia History
- Libya
- Libya Description and travel
- Libya History
- Madagascar
- Madagascar Description and travel
- Madagascar History
- Malawi
- Malawi Description and travel
- Malawi History
- Mali
- Mali Description and travel
- Mali History
- Mauritania
- Mauritania Description and travel
- Mauritania History
- Mauritius
- Mauritius Description and travel
- Mauritius History
- Morocco
- Morocco Description and Travel
- Morocco History
- Mozambique
- Mozambique Description and travel
- Mozambique History
- Namibia
- Namibia Description and travel
- Namibia History
- Niger
- Niger Description and Travel
- Niger History
- Nigeria
- Nigeria Description and Travel
- Nigeria History
- Rwanda
- Rwanda Description and travel
- Rwanda History
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Sao Tome and Principe Description and travel
- Sao Tome and Principe History
- Senegal
- Senegal Description and travel
- Senegal History
- Seychelles
- Seychelles Description and travel
- Seychelles History
- Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone Description and travel
- Sierra Leone History
- Somalia
- Somalia Description and travel
- Somalia History
- South Africa
- South Africa Description and Travel
- South Africa History
- South Sudan
- South Sudan Description and travel
- South Sudan History
- Sudan
- Sudan Description and travel
- Sudan History
- Tanzania
- Tanzania Description and travel
- Tanzania History
- Togo
- Togo Description and travel
- Togo History
- Tunisia
- Tunisia Description and travel
- Tunisia History
- Uganda
- Uganda Description and travel
- Uganda History
- Zaire
- Zaire Description and Travel
- Zaire History
- Zambia
- Zambia Description and travel
- Zambia History
- Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe Description and travel
- Zimbabwe History
Foreign News Translations
FBIS Daily Reports – Sub-Saharan Africa – 1979-1996
1978
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
Free Africa Audiobooks Download & Streaming
These links to audiobook searches of Africa subjects lead to public domain recordings from the LibriVox.org collection at Internet Archive. The audiobooks, recorded by Librivox volunteers, were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include works on personal memoirs, travel narratives, and historical journals regarding the diverse regions and cultures of Africa.
All Librivox audiobooks are in the public domain. They can be freely streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Modern Open Access Africa History Books PDF
The Open Access materials below are modern books and other works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other nonprofit organizations. Open Access collections usually include pdf textbooks, online courses, classroom lesson plans, and recent academic books that reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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