Important file of varied elements. The most important seem to be the archives of Bandiagara, which include some letters of Ahmad al-Bakkay from the early 1860s, letters of Ahmad al-Tijani who ruled over Bandiagara and much of Masina from 1864-1887, his successor Munir b Umar and finally Ahmad al-Kabir, who fled from Nioro to Bandiagara in 1891. Also included are some letters of Ahmad al-Kabir taken from Nioro in 1891, and some of Archinard’s correspondence written in Kayes with Umarians, as he was preparing to move against Nioro 175 pieces. Some of the Arabic originals correspond to the French translations in 15G 74.