The protocol describes how literature was searched to write a review Article titled :Plague in Zimbabwe from 1974-2018.Literature review was conducted using the online databases PubMed, and HINARI. Hard copy text books with information relevant to plague were obtained from the University of Zimbabwe library.The search was refined to manuscripts that reported the occurrence of animal or human plague in Southern, Central, Eastern, Northern Africa and the whole world. All the information was supplemented with information from Web-accessible documents and other grey literature from libraries and archives.