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Preliminary survey of Arabic manuscripts in Djenné, Mali, with a view to a major project of preservation, digitisation and cataloguing
This pilot project will survey the scope and extent of the existing Arabic manuscripts of Djenné, Mali, a town which has historically equalled…
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Endangered Libraries In Timbuktu
The manuscripts of the legendary desert City of Timbuktu have received world-wide attention since the wilful destruction of more than 4000…
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Recovering the rich local history of Kita (Mali) through the salvaging of its archival heritage
The EAP820 project carried out in the archives of the Cercle of Kita (Cercle = administrative district) in August 2016 revealed an archival…
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Continued digitisation and preservation of the Arabic manuscripts of Djenné and surrounding villages
The previous two major EAP projects in Djenné (EAP488 and EAP690) unearthed a vast and hitherto unexplored wealth of Arabic manuscripts in this…
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Project to digitise and preserve the manuscripts of Djenné and surrounding villages
Djenné has already benefited from the support of EAP for a Pilot Project EAP269 in 2009 and in 2011 Major Project EAP488. As a result, the town’s…
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Social history and cultural heritage of Mali: preserving the archives of professional photographers
Among the earliest professional African photographers in Mali, the negative archives of Abdourahmane Sakaly and Mamadou Cissé contain rare…
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Documenting the Arabic manuscript collection of the Yattara Family Library, Timbuktu, Mali
This project seeks to evaluate the holdings of the Yattara family library consisting of some 4000 largely Arabic manuscripts collected prior to the…
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Documenting Slavery and Emancipation in Kita, Western Mali
The national archives in Mali are the second largest archival depot of all Francophone Africa, after the national archives in Senegal. But this is…
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Major project to digitise and preserve the manuscripts of Djenné, Mali
The city of Djenné has existed since the end of the 8th century. It embraced Islam from the 12th century onwards and gradually became an important…
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Digitising Pulaar Islamic Texts: Six Archives of the Taal Families in Senegal and Mali
The project intends to collect and digitise Pulaar Ajami (Pulaar language in Arabic script) and Arabic endangered manuscripts written by some of…
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Preserving the memory of the colonial past in Dogon country. A survey of historical collections of the endangered archives of Bandiagara
This project aims to survey the integrity, uniqueness and value of the documentary material located in the archive of the Prefecture of Bandiagara…
