华人移居非洲大陆和邻近岛屿源于清朝。我国对非洲华人华侨史的研究十分薄弱，为数不多的研究文章以及汇编的史料亦多限于早期南非华工情况或国外学者的译著。本文拟对非洲华人华侨史的外文史料（英文和法文）和研究状况提出一点粗浅的看法，以就教于史学界前辈。①值得说... Chinese immigrate to the continent and neighboring islands from the Qing Dynasty. Our study of the history of Chinese in overseas Chinese in China is very weak. A few research articles and compilations of historical data are limited to the early Chinese laborers in South Africa or the translation of foreign scholars. This article proposes some superficial opinions on the foreign materials (in English and French) and the research status of overseas Chinese in Africa in order to teach them to predecessors in history. ① worth to say ...