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This dossier focuses on Bakel, the trade in gum Arabic, and relations with local leaders, including the Idawaish Moors. 91 pieces.

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This focuses on a particularly turbulent period in the history of eastern Senegal, Bakel, and the kingdom of Bundu. Bokar Saada, the Almamy of Bundu, features a great deal, along with Abdul Bokar and leaders from Futa Toro.

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This post, in the southern part of Bundu on the Faleme tributary of the Senegal, was important to the French from time to time in the 19th century. 142 pieces.

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This dossier contains some interesting material for a period when Senoudebou and Bakel were the only posts of observation for the French in the Upper Senegal.

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Another small but important dossier, scattered over the years, and going from the time of the Bambara regime in Kaarta to the Umarian one based in Nioro. Arabic and French. 16 pieces.

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Khasso was the Mandinka kingdom around the fort of Matam; it was allied with the French for most of the late 19th century, under Kartum Sambala Diallo and his family. Arabic and French. 12 pieces.

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Interesting material, produced as the French were advancing into Soudan. French and some Arabic.

Scope and Contents A large dossier of great importance, as the French under the Commandant Superieur, based at Medine and then Kayes (Gallieni and then Archinard), conduct the campaigns of conquest against the Umarians, led by Umar’s son Ahmad al-Kabir. Divided into a number of sections or “chemises.” Arabic and some French. 92 pieces in total. Caron mission, letters written at Niagassola, 1887; Moussa Molo, chef de Firdu, and Niani-Ouli, 1888 (actually in Upper Gambia, but coming under the...

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Important dossier. About 2/3 of the letters involve the Moors, 1/3 the Peulhs. All of the material is related to the French advance. Much of this correspondence was probably in and out of Bakel, Medine and Kayes. Arabic and French.

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Extremely important dossier, dealing with the French (Archinard) conquest of Nioro, which had become the capital of Ahmad al-Kabir after 1884. Through the letters one can see the successful French military strategy, including defections from the Umarian ranks. Arabic and French. 61 pieces.