- in English
- I. Lourenco-Lindell (1997). "Food for the poor, food for the city: the role of urban agriculture in Bissau". Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe (28). ISSN 1011-5919.
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- Ilda Lourenço-Lindell (2004). "Trade and the politics of informalization in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Karen Tranberg Hansen; Mariken Vaa (eds.). Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-518-6. OCLC 654131452.
- Eric Young (2005). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Bissau". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
- Manuel Rambout Barcelos (2006). "Masked children in an urban scene: the Bissau Carnival". In Simon Ottenberg; David Aaron Binkley (eds.). Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-351-49950-7.
- in other languages
- Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Bissau". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/gri.ark:/13960/t6m081q3b. OCLC 865826167.
- Joel Frederico da Silveira (1989). "Spatialisation d'un rapport colonial: Bissau, 1900-1960". In Michel Cahen (ed.). Vilas et cidades: bourgs et villes en Afrique lusophone (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-0431-6.
- François Mendy (2006). La ville de Bissau: amenagement et gestion urbaine (Ph.D.) (in French). Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
- Ana Vaz Milheiro; Eduardo Costa Dias (2009). "Arquitectura em Bissau e os Gabinetes de Urbanização colonial (1944–1974)" [Architecture in Bissau and the Colonial Urbanization Departments] (PDF). Arq.urb (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Universidade São Judas Tadeu (2). ISSN 1984-5766.
