[1] He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891).

[2] In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies.

He returned to France that year, to an administrative post in Paris at the French Colonial Ministry.

In 1899 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him their Founder's Medal for his exploratory work.

[3] Louis Gustave Binger died at L'Isle-Adam, Île-de-France, France and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.