Scope and Contents From the Collection: The David Robinson collection on Western Sudan consists of materials collected by David Robinson (History and African Studies, Michigan State University) while doing research in francophone West Africa and France on the Haal-Pulaar people, especially those in Futa Toro (the middle valley of the Senegal River) and along their paths of migration into Mali, with a focus on the movement organized by Umar Tal. Over the course of 40 years of research, these materials were invaluable in preparing...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The David Robinson collection on Western Sudan consists of materials collected by David Robinson (History and African Studies, Michigan State University) while doing research in francophone West Africa and France on the Haal-Pulaar people, especially those in Futa Toro (the middle valley of the Senegal River) and along their paths of migration into Mali, with a focus on the movement organized by Umar Tal. Over the course of 40 years of research, these materials were invaluable in preparing...

Abstract

TAPES – Open reel copies made from the original cassettes by the Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University), which has cataloged the originals as “Senegal, Futa Toro and Dakar, Fulahs, 1968-1969.” Reels 1-45 in Box 8; Reels 36-92 in Box 9.

Scope and Contents This is my largest collection which served as an important basis for the dissertation and the resulting volume, Chiefs and Clerics: Abdul Bokar Kane and the History of Futa Toro (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975). A small number of excerpts from the collection, with Pulaar transcription and English translation, were used to tell the “history” of Futa Toro in Moustapha Kane and David Robinson, The Islamic Regime of Fuuta Tooro. An Anthology of Oral Tradition Transcribed in Pulaar and Translated...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The David Robinson collection on Western Sudan consists of materials collected by David Robinson (History and African Studies, Michigan State University) while doing research in francophone West Africa and France on the Haal-Pulaar people, especially those in Futa Toro (the middle valley of the Senegal River) and along their paths of migration into Mali, with a focus on the movement organized by Umar Tal. Over the course of 40 years of research, these materials were invaluable in preparing...