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African Agricultural Mechanization Study records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.14
Scope and Contents
The African Agricultural Mechanization Study records contain administrative and accounting records, correspondence, and progress and final reports. Technical records consist primarily of information on hydraulic systems, also some on agriculture and various African countries. Also includes a few workshop and colloquium records, and records for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Dates:
1962 - 1971
David Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 350 large
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Donald R. Wright papers on Mandinka origins, history, and culture in The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, 1967-1980
Collection
Identifier: MSS 302 large
Scope and Contents
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
Eric Crawford collection on food security and agricultural development in Senegal
Collection
Identifier: MSS 361 large
Scope and Contents
Part of a collection of 1980s documents gathered by Food Security Project staff in the MSU Dept. of Agricultural Economics. Countries covered include Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Dates:
1980-1989
R. James Bingen papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.308
Scope and Content
Some of the materials are in French. Scope and Contents The R. James Bingen papers consists of notes and documents gathered in Mali (1970s-2007) and in Senegal (1980s) about rural and agricultural development. Included are photocopies of Malian, Senegalese, Compagnie malienne pour le développement du textile (CMDT) and Française pour le Développement des Fibres Textiles (CFDT) documents. There are also records relating to the Michigan...
Dates:
1939 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1955 - 2008