Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Archives du Sénégal
    • Postal Address:


      Dakar
      Senegal
    • Location:

      Immeuble Administratif, Avenue L.S. Senghor
    • Telephone:

      (221) 23-5072
    • Facsimile:

      (221) 22-5126
    • E-mail:

      pmarchi@primature.sn
    • Director:

      Saliou Mbaye
    • Year founded:

      1913
  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive
    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters
    • Size:

      12,000 linear meters
    • Holdings:

      Archives (1816-1960), (1895-1960), (1960- ); Administrative and historical library; center of administrative and judicial documentation

    • Receiving new material?

      No
    • Languages:

      French, Arabic
  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      open and free of charge.

    • Access restrictions:

      30 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories
    • Copier available?:

      No
  • Repository publications:

  • References:

    <a href="http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Archives/Voltadem/Senegal.htm"><I>Documents d'archives pour la rédaction de l'histoire démographique de la Haute-Volta coloniale: Archives nationales de Sénégal.<i/> Sociétés en développement dans l'espace et dans le temps (SEDET), Université Paris 7 </a>