Transliterated title: Mandinkakaŋ Leetaroolu. The collection contains short notes and letters written by family members in Mandinka Ajami. The first letter is sent from Guinea Bissau by Sire Mbaa Daffe, who is the aunt of the owner to greet him and to request that her children be kept together ...
Mountaga Ba is the current custodian of the manuscripts recorded in his name and collected from the town of Pate Galo (northern Senegal). Ba’s family holding includes 56 small unbound book manuscripts and paper stacks. The material was mainly authored by the custodian’s father, Muhammad al-Ghāli...
The manuscript is a biography of Senegalese Sufi leader Seydu Nuuru Taal. The author traces Taal's genealogy as one of Umar Taal's prominent grandsons. It narrates detaiuls about his birth, training, and his political role in colonial Senegal. The author began the book in 1981 and completed it o...
