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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1973 - 6/30/1974

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)

Fission and Optition in Eastern Senegambia

FAIN: FB-11836-73

David W. Robinson
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI 48824-3407)

To study the responses of six societies in Eastern Senegambia in the 1850s to the challenges of two diametrically opposed imperialisms and their respective leaders; the militant Muslim reformer, Umar Tal, and the aggressive French governor, Louis Faidherbe.