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DT 348-363.3 - Central Sub-Saharan Africa

Including Sahara to Congo basin, travel across the continent by Congo & Lake Region, etc., to 1950, and biographies of explorers of the region 
For works by and about Sir Henry Morton Stanley see DT351.S8+
For works by Theodore Roosevelt see SK252

Call Number Subject
DT 349.8 Guidebooks
DT 351 General works
DT 352-352.2 Description & travel
Early works through 1950 see DT351
DT 352.3 Antiquities
DT 352.4 Social life & customs. Civilization. Intellectual life
DT 352.42-352.43 Ethnography
DT 352.5-352.8 History
- DT 352.6 - Biography & memoirs
- DT 352.65-352.8 - By period
- - DT 352.65 - - Early
- - DT 352.7 - - Colonial
- - DT 352.8 - - Independent
DT 353-353.5 Political & diplomatic history
- DT 353.5.A-Z - Relations with individual countries, A-Z
- - DT 353.5.E9 - - Europe
- - DT 353.5.U6 - - United States
DT 356 West Central Africa. West Sudan
See also DT470+ West coast & Guinea
DT 360 Niger River
See also DT470+ West Coast; DT521+ French West Africa; DT547+ French Niger
DT 361-363.3 East Central (Lake region)
Including Ruwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon)
See also DT117 Sources of the Nile
See also DT365+ East coast
- DT 362-363.2 - Biography & memoirs
- - DT 363 - - Emin Pasha. Exploration & relief expedition

DT 365-367.8 - Eastern Africa

Call Number Subject
DT 365 Periodicals. Societies. Serials
DT 365.3 Antiquities
DT 365.42-365.45 Ethnography
- DT 365.45.S93 - Swahili-speaking peoples
DT 365.47-365.78 History
- DT 365.62-365.63 - Foreign & general relations
- DT 365.65-365.78 - By period
- - DT 365.65-365.655 - - Early to 1886
- - DT 365.7-365.77 - - 1886-1960
DT 367-367.8 Northeast Africa
Including Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia & Djibouti (Collectively)

DT 371-390 - Ethiopia (Abyssinia)

Call Number Subject
DT 371 Periodicals. Societies. Serials
DT 372 Guidebooks
DT 373 General works
DT 375-378.3 Description & travel
- DT 378 - 1901-1950
DT 379.5 Social life & customs. Civilization. Intellectual life
DT 380-380.4 Ethnography
- DT 380.4.A-Z - Individual elements in the population, A-Z
- - DT 380.4.G19 - - Gamo
- - DT 380.4.H36 - - Hamar
- - DT 380.4.M32 - - Male
DT 380.5-388.35 History
- DT 382.3-382.5 - Political & diplomatic history. Foreign & general relations
- DT 383-388.35 - By period
- - DT 383 - - Early through 1500
- - DT 386-388.35 - - 19th-20th centuries
- - - DT 386.7-386.73 - - - John IV, 1872-1889
- - - DT 387-387.34 - - - Menelik II, 1889-1913
- - - - DT 387.3 - - - - War with Italy, 1895-1896
- - - DT 387.7-387.92 - - - Haile Selassie I, 1928-1974
- - - - DT 387.8 - - - - Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
- - - - DT 387.9 - - - - 1936-1974
- - - DT 387.95-387.954 - - - 1974-1991
- - - DT 388-388.35 - - - 1991-
- - - - DT 388.35 - - - - Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-
DT 390.A-Z Kingdoms, regions, cities, etc., A-Z
- DT 390.G2 - Gallas (Galla, Oromo)
Including territory

DT 391-411 - Eritrea. Somalia. Djibouti

Call Number Subject
DT 391-398 Eritrea
DT 393 - General works
- DT 393.35 - Antiquities
- DT 393.7-397.3 - History
- - DT 394.5-397.3 - - By period
- - - DT 395.3 - - - 1941-1952. British administration
Including United Nations investigations
- - - DT 395.5 - - - 1952-1962. Federation with Ethiopia
- - - DT 397 - - - 1962-1993. Annexation to Ethiopia
Including civil war & liberation movements
- - - DT 397.3 - - - 1993- . Independence
For Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998- , see DT388.35
DT 401-409 Somalia. Somaliland & adjacent territory
Italian & British Somaliland
See also DT391+ Eritrea
See also DT411+ French territory of the Afars & Issas; French Somaliland; Djibouti
- DT 401.5 - General works
- DT 402.3-402.45 - Ethnography
- DT 402.5-407.43 - History
- - DT 403.25 - - Political history
- - DT 403.5-407.43 - - By period
- - - DT 406-406.3 - - - 1941-1960. British military administration. United Nations trusteeship
- - - DT 407-407.43 - - - 1960-
For Somali-Ethiopian Conflict see DT387.952
- - - - DT 407.4-407.43 - - - - 1991-
- - - - - DT 407.42 - - - - - Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993
- - - - - DT 407.43 - - - - - Somalia Affair, 1992-1997
- DT 409.A-Z - Local history & description, A-Z
DT 411-411.9 Djibouti. French Territory of the Afars & Issas. French Somaliland

DT 421-434 - British East Africa

Including Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (Collectively)

Call Number Subject
DT 423 General works
DT 424-427 Description & travel
DT 429-429.5 Ethnography
DT 430-432.5 History
DT 433-433.29 Uganda
- DT 433.215 - Gazetteers. Dictionaries, etc.
- DT 433.242-433.245 - Ethnography
- DT 433.25-433.287 - History
- - DT 433.265-433.287 - - By period
- - - DT 433.275-433.283 - - - 1962-1979. Independent
- - - - DT 433.282 - - - - 1962-1971
- - - - DT 433.283 - - - - 1971-1979. Amin regime
Including Uganda-Tanzania War, 1978-1979
- - - DT 433.285-433.287 - - - 1979-
- DT 433.29.A-Z - Local history & description, A-Z
DT 433.5-434 Kenya
For works on former British East Africa as a whole see DT421+
- DT 433.52 - Guidebooks
- DT 433.522 - General works
- DT 433.542-433.545 - Ethnography
- - DT 433.545.A-Z - - Individual elements in the population, A-Z
- - - DT 433.545.B67 - - - Boran
- - - DT 433.545.K55 - - - Kikuyu
- - - DT 433.545.M33 - - - Masai / Maasai
- - - DT 433.545.S93 - - - Swahili-speaking peoples
- DT 433.552-433.586 - History
- - DT 433.565-433.586 - - By period
- - - DT 433.57-433.573 - - - 1886-1920. East African Protectorate (1895-1920)
Including Anglo-German accords on Zanzibar, activities of the British East
Africa Company in Kenya, and German claims to the Witu Protectorate
- - - DT 433.575-433.577 - - - 1920-1963. Kenya Colony & Protectorate
- - - - DT 433.577 - - - - Mau Mau movement
- - - DT 433.58-433.586 - - - 1963-
- - - - DT 433.582 - - - - Biography & memoirs
- - - - DT 433.584 - - - - 1978-2002
- DT 434.A-Z - Local history & description, A-Z
- - DT 434.B8 - - Buganda
- - DT 434.E2 - - East Africa
- - DT 434.N3 - - Nairobi
- - DT 434.U2 - - Uganda

DT 435-449 - Zanzibar. Tanzania. Tanganyika. German East Africa

Call Number Subject
DT 435-435.9 Zanzibar
See DT449.Z2+
DT 436-449 Tanzania. Tanganyika. German East Africa
See also DT450+ Rwanda. Ruanda-Urundi; DT450.5+ Burundi
- DT 442 - Antiquities
- DT 442.5 - Social life & customs. Civilization. Intellectual life
- DT 443-443.3 - Ethnography
- - DT 443.3.A-Z - - Individual elements in the population, A-Z
- - - DT 443.3.G64 - - - Gogo
- - - DT 443.3.H39 - - - Haya
- - - DT 443.3.H88 - - - Hutu
- - - DT 443.3.K33 - - - Kaguru
- - - DT 443.3.M37 - - - Masai
- - - DT 443.3.S92 - - - Swahili-speaking peoples
- DT 443.4-448.25 - History
- - DT 447-448.25 - - By period
- - - DT 447-447.2 - - - Early & colonial
- - - DT 448.2-448.25 - - - 1964- . United Republic of Tanzania
For Uganda-Tanzania War, 1978-1979 see DT433.283
- - - - DT 448.25 - - - - Biography & memoirs
- DT 449.A-Z - Regions, cities, etc., A-Z
- - DT 449.K4 - - Kilimanjaro
- - DT 449.Z2-.Z29 - - Zanzibar

DT 450-450.95 - Rwanda. Ruanda-Urundi. Burundi

Call Number Subject
DT 450-450.49 Rwanda. Ruanda-Urundi
​Class here also works on Rwanda & Burundi collectively
For works on German East Africa as a whole see DT436+
For works on Burundi alone see DT450.5+
- DT 450.24-450.25 - Ethnography
- DT 450.26-450.443 - History
- - DT 450.34-450.443 - - By period
- - - DT 450.34-450.36 - - - Early to 1890. Rwanda (Kingdom)
- - - DT 450.435-450.437 - - - 1962-1994
Including the Civil War & genocide of 1994
- - - DT 450.44-450.443 - - - 1994-
- DT 450.49.A-Z - Local history & description, A-Z
DT 450.5-450.95 Burundi
For works on German East Africa as a whole see DT436+
For works on Rwanda & Burundi collectively and for works
on Ruanda-Urundi see DT450+
- DT 450.64-450.65 - Ethnography
- DT 450.66-450.863 - History
DT 451-465 Mozambique
See DT3291+

DT 468-469 - Islands (East African coast)

Call Number Subject
DT 468 General works
DT 469.A-Z Individual islands, A-Z
- DT 469.C7 - Comoros
- DT 469.M21-.M38 - Madagascar
- - DT 469.M276-.M277 - - Ethnography
- - DT 469.M282-.M345 - - History
- DT 469.M4-.M495 - Mauritius (Ile de France)
- DT 469.R3-.R5 - Réunion
- DT 469.S4-.S49 - Seychelles