Failed Islamic States in Senegambia
David Robinson
Massacre at Pete, in interview
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Description: Excerpt from an interview with Ali Gaye Thiam conducted by David Robinson in Mataam, Senegal on 23 Jan 1968. Thiam is from a caste of maabo (pl. maabube), griots or oral historians who were attached to the ruling classes of Fuuta.
Date: January 23, 1968
Date Range: 1960-1969
Location: Maatam, Senegal
Format: Text/pdf
Language: Pulaar
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: MATRIX
Archive: Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Source: Taken from the oral history collection of David Robinson recorded in 1968-9 and housed at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Pulaar transcript and English translation are contained in Moustapha Kane and David Robinson, The Islamic Regime of Futta Tooro: An Anthology of Oral Tradition Transcribed in Pulaar and Translated into English. African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1984. Pages 147-157. A Pulaar copy of the interview and a paper copy of the French translation are contained in the Africana collections at the MSU library.
Pulaar transcript and English translation are contained in Moustapha Kane and David Robinson, The Islamic Regime of Futta Tooro: An Anthology of Oral Tradition Transcribed in Pulaar and Translated into English. African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1984. Pages 147-157. A Pulaar copy of the interview and a paper copy of the French translation are contained in the Africana collections at the MSU library.