Not open source:
MURRAY LAST; Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African History, African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 324, 1 July 1982, Pages 440–441, https://doi.org/10.1093
More an archaeology book. Mentions the Kilwa Chronicles:
The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement...
The Zimbabwe culture by Innocent Pikirayi, 2002, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated edition, in English
Open source:
Methodology and African prehistory
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000042225
Ancient civilizations of Africa:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000184265
Seventh-Eleventh century in English unabridged:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000184282
Twelfth-Sixteenth century in English unabridged:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000184287
UNESCO offers an extensive General History of Africa. You can download each book free of charge:
https://en.unesco.org/general-history-africa
Available languages are English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Fulfulde, Hausa and Swahili, but not all languages have each book translated in full. There are some languages which offer only the abriged version translated.
Here are some of the books offered on this site:
Methodology and African prehistory
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ar…
UNESCOs general history of Africa is going to get updated in the future considering it doesn’t reflect the newest standard of knowledge. Not sure when the other volumes (IX, X, XI) are going to release.
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