This document describes the efforts at tribal reconciliation conducted by a local judge in the Timbuktu governorate. Discusses a period from the late 19th century to the year 1910. Page size (cm) (width and height): 19.5 x 23; Text box size (cm): n/a; Lines per page: n/a. Condition: tearing; t...
This is a work containing legal verdicts on various issues in Islam, ranging from ritual to socio-political. Extent: volume 1 containing 14 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 17 x 13.5 cm. Custodial history: This manuscript is currently under the custody of Alfa Koro Family Lib...
It is a write-up that talks about politics and power in the old Mali Empire. Extent: volume 1 containing 25 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 16.5 x 10 cm. Custodial history: This manuscript is currently under the custody of Nababa Family Library. It was inherited from their f...
This volume contains seven poems handwritten by Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba. According to the author's son, Mountaga Ba, the poems were probably composed in the mid-1970s a time when the author lived in Mauritania, while working at the country's national radio station and serving as a special counsel t...
This manuscript includes correspondences and one article. The correspondences had been destined to several people. The article was written back when the author, Muhammad al-Ghali, was working at Mauritania' s National Radio. The article addresses the political situation of Mauritania in the 1980...
This is a manuscript by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. It contains an analysis of the political parties in Mauritania. The first page provides a geographical description of Mauritania. It discusses parties such as An wisaaqu al-Muritani (Unity in Mauritania). This first Mauritanian political party was cr...