Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

9/1/1988 - 8/31/1992

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$86,723.00 (approved)
$79,942.63 (awarded)


A Chronicle of the Middle Niger

FAIN: RL-21259-88

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208-0001)
John O. Hunwick (Project Director: June 1987 to January 1993)

To support an annotated translation of a 1656 Arabic chronicle written in Timbuktu that covers the history of the Songhay Empire and of the Middle Niger.