Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1993 - 10/31/1996

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$111,504.00 (approved)
$111,484.96 (awarded)


The Compilation, Translation, and Contextual Annotation of the Poetic Works of Nana Asma'u Bint Usman 'dan Fodio

FAIN: RO-22415-92

University of Kansas, Lawrence (Lawrence, KS 66045-7505)
Beverly B. Mack (Project Director: October 1991 to April 1997)

To support the preparation of a translation and interpretation of the writings of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1865, who was an accomplished educator and poet and the daughter of an important jihad leader in North Africa.