Samuel White Baker
The Albert N'Yanza: The Great Basin of the Nile (travel narrative) 1866
Cast up by the Sea (novel) 1868

R. M. Ballantyne
Black Ivory: A Tale of Adventure among the Slaves of East Africa (novel) 1873

William Blake
“Little Black Boy” (poem) 1789

Edward Wilmot Blyden
“A Vindication of the African Race” (essay) 1857
“Hope For Africa” (essay) 1862
The Negro in Ancient History (nonfiction) 1869
Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race (nonfiction) 1888
Africa and Africans (nonfiction) 1903
Selected Letters of Edward Wilmot Blyden [edited by Hollis R. Lynch] (correspondence) 1978

Thomas Bowdich
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (travel narrative) 1819

John Buchan
Prester John (novel) 1910

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes (novel) 1914

Sir Richard Burton
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (travel narrative) 1876

Thomas Carlyle
“The Nigger Question” (essay) 1849

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Greek Prize Ode on the Slave Trade” (poem) 1796

Zélie Colvile
Round the Black Man's Garden (travel narrative) 1893

Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (novella) 1899

Charles Dickens
“The Niger Expedition” (essay) 1848
Bleak House (novel) 1852-53

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime of the Congo (novel) 1909

H. G. Foote
Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa (travel narrative) 1869

Ewart S. Grogan
From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of African from South to North (travel narrative) 1900

H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines (novel) 1885
Allan Quatermain (novel) 1887
Jess (novel) 1887
She (novel) 1887
Nada the Lily (novel) 1891

Sarah J. Hale
Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments (novel) 1853

A. Hinderer
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country (travel narrative) 1872

Anthony Hope
The God in the Car (novel) 1894

Sir Harry Johnston
The History of a Slave (novel) 1889

Mary H. Kingsley
Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corsico and Cameroons (travel narrative) 1897
The Story of West Africa (nonfiction) 1899
West African Studies (travel narrative) 1899

William Lancaster
The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron (novel) 1886

C. Larymore
A Resident's Wife in Nigeria (travel narrative) 1908

David Livingstone
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (travel narrative) 1857

Harriet Martineau
Dawn Island (novel) 1845

Somerset Maugham
The Explorer (novel) 1907

Elizabeth Melville
A Residence at Sierra Leone: described from a journal kept on the spot, and from letters written to friends at home [edited by Mrs. Norton; published anonymously] (travel narrative) 1849

Henry S. Merriman
With Edged Tools (novel) 1894

Wilson S. Naylor
Daybreak in the Dark Continent (travel narrative) 1905

Charles Reade
A Simpleton; a Story of the Day (novel) 1873

Winwood Reade
Savage Africa; being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern and Northwestern Africa (travel narrative) 1863

Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm (novel) 1883
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (novel) 1897

Robert Southey
“Poems Concerning the Slave Trade” (poetry) 1838

Sir John Hanning Speke
Discovery of the Sources of the Nile (natural history and travel narrative) 1864

Henry Morton Stanley
How I Found Livingstone (travel diary) 1872
My Kalulu: Prince, King, and Slave (novel) 1873
Through the Dark Continent (travel narrative) 1878
In Darkest Africa (travel narrative) 1890

James Stewart
Dawn in the Dark Continent; or, Africa and Its Missions (travel narrative) 1903

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Timbuctoo” (poem) 1829

Joseph Thomson
To the Central African Lakes and Back (travel narrative) 1881

Mark Twain
King Leopold's Soliloquy (novel) 1905

Sarah Lee Wallis
The African Wanderers (novel) 1847

William Wordsworth
“Sonnet to Thomas Clarkson: On the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807” (poem) 1807