Own work based on:

- https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mozambique_native.html

- (Newitt, Malyn. A History of Mozambique. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1995.)

- https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Tanzania_native.html

- https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Kenya_native.html

- https://understandingthehorn.berkeley.edu/horn-africa-1730-ce (uses - https://operationoverload.wordpress.com/category/mogadishu/)

- https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=WixiTjxYdkYC&pg=PA521&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Zanzibar

- (https://www.worldcat.org/title/zanzibar-its-history-and-its-people/oclc/186237036)

- (https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi)

- (http://www.heliograph.com/trmgs/trmgs2/bea.shtml)

- (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1895/jun/13/british-east-africa#S4V0034P0_18950613_HOC_216)

- (https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=2WOuAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa_Protectorate

- (https://www.fotw.info/flags/eaf-brit.html#%3Cww1)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumaliza - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanley_Founding_of_Congo_Free_State_365_Political_Divisions_of_the_Congo_Basin.jpg

- hisatlas

- other sources, books, jstor papers

- Tubinger's Atlas

- Journal of African Studies

Sources that confirm the map:

- The Cambridge History of Africa Vol. 5, p. 275

- Oman in History. pp. 445-463

- Muqdisho in the Nineteenth Century: A Regional Perspective. The Journal of African History, Vol. 24, No. 4 (1983), pp. 441-459

- The Swahili Coast: Politics, Diplomacy and Trade on the East African Littoral, 1798-1856

- Somalia: Nation in Search of a State