Joannes Leo Africanus (/ˌæfrɪˈkeɪnəs/; nama lahir al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, bahasa Arab: حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي; s. 1494 – s. 1554) adalah seorang diplomat dan penulis Al-Andalus berdarah Berber[2] yang dikenal karena membuat buku Descrittione dell’Africa (Deskripsi Afrika) yang menyoroti geografi Maghreb dan Lembah Nil. Buku tersebut diterima di kalangan muridnya di Eropa sebagai risalah paling otoritatif tentang subyek tersebut sampai penjelajahan Afrika modern.[3]
Rauchenberger, Dietrich (1999). Johannes Leo der Afrikaner: seine Beschreibung des Raumes zwischen Nil und Niger nach dem Urtext (dalam bahasa German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN3-447-04172-2.Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
Leo Africanus (1600). A Geographical Historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian. Before which is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and a particular treatise of all the lands undescribed. Translated and collected by John Pory. London: G. Bishop. The first translation into English.
Leo Africanus (1896). The History and Description of Africa (3 Vols). Brown, Robert, editor. London: Hakluyt Society. Internet Archive: Volume 1 (pp. 1–224), Volume 2, Volume 3 (pp. 669–1119); Geographical index. The original text of Pory's 1600 English translation together with an introduction and notes by the editor.
Verde, Tom (2008). "A man of two worlds". Saudi Aramco World (January/February 2008): 2–9.
Jean-Léon l'Africain (1956). Description de l'Afrique: Nouvelle édition traduite de l'italien par Alexis Épaulard et annotée par Alexis Épaulard, Théodore Monod, Henri Lhote et Raymond Mauny (2 Vols). Paris: Maisonneuve. A scholarly translation into French with extensive notes.
Hunwick, John O. (1999). Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other contemporary documents. Leiden: Brill. ISBN90-04-11207-3. pages 272–291 contain a translation into English of Leo Africanus's descriptions of the Middle Niger, Hausaland and Bornu. Corresponds to Épaulard 1956 Vol II pages 463–481.
Masonen, Pekka (2000). The Negroland revisited: Discovery and invention of the Sudanese middle ages. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. hlm. 167–207. ISBN951-41-0886-8.
