National Archives of Senegal

Archives Nationales du Sénégal
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Alternative name	National Archives of Senegal
Location	Dakar, Senegal
Website	https://askanwinfos.com/

The National Archives of Senegal (Archives Nationales du Sénégal) is headquartered in Dakar, in the Central Park building on Avenue Malick Sy. It was first called Archives Nationales in 1962, but the collection existed since 1913 as the archives of the colonial French West Africa administration. It moved from Saint-Louis to Dakar after 1958.[1]

Archivists

Archivists have included:[2]

• Claude Faure (1911-1920)
• Prosper Alquier (1921-1922)
• Médoune Mbaye (1922-1936)
• André Villard (1936-1942)
• Marguerite Verdat [de] (1945-1948)
• Jacques Charpy (1951-1958)
• Jean-François Maurel (1958-1959)
• Saliou Mbaye (1976-2005)
• Babacar Ndiaye, circa 2010-2011? [3][1]
• Fatoumata Cissé Diarra, circa 2013?-present[4]

See also

• Unesco Memory of the World Register – Africa
• Bibliothèque des Archives nationales du Sénégal
• History of Senegal

References

1. "Historique des Archives du Sénégal". Archivesdusenegal.gouv.sn (in French). Dakar: Gouvernement du Sénégal. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
2. Charpy 2010.
3. "Les archives du Sénégal et d'AOF: une mémoire de la colonisation française en péril", Le Point (in French), Paris, 24 March 2010
4. "Fatoumata Cissé Diarra, directrice des Archives nationales: 'L'Etat est engagé dans un vaste projet de modernisation'", Le Soleil (in French), Dakar, 21 June 2016

Bibliography

• Saliou Mbaye (1990). Guide des archives de l'Afrique occidentale française (in French). Dakar. OCLC 491084474. (Includes information about the National Archives of Senegal)
• Saliou Mbaye (1990). "Oral Records in Senegal". American Archivist. 53 (4): 566–574. doi:10.17723/aarc.53.4.pu7105854h265711. (Includes information about the National Archives of Senegal)
• Jacques Charpy (2010). "Les archivistes de l'AOF face à leur temps". Outre-mers [fr] (in French). 97 (368): 293–309. doi:10.3406/outre.2010.4507 – via Persee.fr.
• Ramatoulaye Fofana (2003), Etudes, recherche et conservation du patrimoine au Senegal: la Direction des Archives nationales, la bibliotheque de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire et la bibliotheque de l'Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (PDF) (in French), France: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'information et des Bibliotheques

External links

• Official site (in French)
• WorldCat. Archives nationales (Senegal)
• "Senegal Archives Project". Cooperative Africana Materials Project. Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.