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Contains 102 Results:

Suso, Jali Bamba, griot who died in 1974, on Niumi history, recorded by Radio Gambia and furnished by the Gambia Cultural Archives, Banjul. 8 leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

‘The Oral Traditions of Kaabu: An Historiographical Essay on Some Problems Connected with Their Finding, Collection, Evaluation and Use,’ by Winifred F. Galloway. Paper to the First International Kaabu Colloquium, Dakar. 26 leaves., 19th-24th May, 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 19th-24th May, 1980

‘The Nyancos of Kaabu’ by B.K. Sidibe. 37, 15 leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

Lorimer, George (Commissioner, North Bank Province), ‘Report on the History and Previous Native Administration of Niumiside, and more especially of Lowe Niumi ….’, Gambia P.R.O 2/2390, 7, [4] leaves; two leaves from an unidentified work on Niumi., ca. 1942?

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: ca. 1942?

Fuladu: four chapters of an unidentified work on Fuladu (on Kaabu and its fall, Alfa Molo, Bakari Demba, and the rise of the state of Fuladu) ca. 100 leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

[Archival papers from British repositories] from: Bedfordshire County Office (1798); Lancashire County Office; Sheffield City Libraries; Northamptonshire Record Office (1755-7); Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, Lisboa (on Niumi, 1696-7); East Riding Record Office/Humberside County Council, 1724).

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 67
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

Republic of The Gambia, Population Census 1973 Provisional Report, 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 68
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1973

‘The Story of Kaabu’ by B.K. Sidibe. 21 leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 69
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

‘The Nyanchos of Kaabu’ by B.K. Sidibe, 42, 7, 3 leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 70
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980

‘A Working Map of Kaabu with a shortlist of some Kaabu States and related areas’ by Winifred Galloway, OHAD, Banjul, 12, [6 maps] leaves.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 71
Scope and Contents From the Collection: In addition to translated transcriptions of Donald Wright's 1974-75 interviews relating to Senegambian history, with most of the interviews done in The Gambia and almost all in Mandinka language, also included are interviews recorded by S.M. Cissoko in 1967, a few other interviews in Wolof, plus some eighteenth century documents from British archives, and a dozen or so other papers, including some from the Conference on the Oral Traditions of Kaabu in Dakar in 1980. The collection is...
Dates: 1967-1980