Arabic chronicles relating to particular regions in West Africa that I have collected over the years. There is no connection among them and no common provenance. They were probably written decades ago, by a local chronicler, on the basis of extant traditions, often ones transmitted orally, and in some cases recently updated or recopied. There is rarely any translation in French or any other language. I suspect some informed inhabitants of the regions or their capital cities know the contents and may use them in recitations about their history. I have used the expression “Ta’rikh,” chronicle, to reflect the kind of history represented. [See microfilm 14944, reels 6 and 7.]