African Aviation History
 

Hell everybody,
i am a former pilot and I can't fly anymore since I lost my medical. Now I research at the University the history of African aviation.
Its quite difficult to find some documents, I would like to ask if there is somebody here who could help me out or have an idea where I could get some material relating to this topic.
Thanks for your help!

Africa is a big continent. Are you looking for a particular country?

Much of the land mass of Africa was shown on maps by the colour red. This meant that all such countries were part of the British Empire and many of them contained staging posts eg. airfields and lakes providing fuelling and maintenance facilities for both aircraft and flying boats linking the separate parts of the Empire as far afield as Australia and New Zealand.

The period would be around the 1920s and 30s. Imperial Airways was the name of the airline responsible for maintaining these extensive links so, your research could start with that name.

Books on African Aviation
 

All of these should be of help, but may be expensive due to being long out of print

REG Davies History of the Worlds Airlines UK Oxford University Press 1964
REG Davies Airlines of the Jet Age USA Smithsonian Institute 2011 ISBN 978-0-9788460-8-4
John Stroud Annals of British & Commonwealth Air Transport UK Putnam 1962
Encyclopaedia of African Airlines B R Guttery USA McFarland 1998
The Time Shrinkers David Jones UK David Rendel Ltd 1971 - development of UK - Africa services
Bringing Africa Together - Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia 1988 ​​​​​​
Shadows Airlift & Air War Biafra Nigeria - Michael Draper UK Hikoki 1999 ISBN 1 902109 63 5

I have a spare of the Guttery available. I will send a PM