Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

7/1/1981 - 9/30/1982

Funding Totals

$19,635.00 (approved)
$19,635.00 (awarded)


Two Mashi Histories of Ngweshe

FAIN: RL-*0751-81

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA 23186-0002)
Richard D. Sigwalt (Project Director: July 1980 to October 1990)

To support translation of two Mashi language histories of Ngweshe, a region in east-central Zaire. The histories, one written and the other transcribed from the oral tradition, describe Ngweshe history from the 18th century to the 1930's. They are important to the understanding of modern Africa.