Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop

    • Postal Address:

      B.P. 206
      Dakar
      Senegal

    • Location:

      Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

    • Telephone:

      (221) 25 00 90, 25 98 90, 25 19 90

    • Facsimile:

      (221) 24 49 18

    • E-mail:

      bifan@ucad.sn

    • URL:

      http://www.refer.fr/sngal_ct/rec/ifan/accueil.htm

    • Director:

      Prof. Djibril Samb

    • Year founded:

      1936

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Electronic archives
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Photographs
      Sound recordings

    • Holdings:

      Monograph collection 1500-1960 (35000); Monograph collection 1960 to the present; periodicals from the colonial period, especially AOF (Afrique Occidentale Française). Documentary data (7000) work of the first IFAN researchers; maps (6000); records from the William Ponty School from 1933-1945 (570). 60,000 photographs, 50,000 archaeological collections, 1600 casettes of oral literature, 1400 manuscripts in Arabic, 100,000 insects, 160,000 documents of marine biology

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      French, English, Spanish, African languages, Arabic

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Reserved for students, teachers, researchers, and other users authorized under certain conditions.

    • Finding tools:

      Card catalogs
      Electronic catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

  • References:

    Mbacke, K, and T. Ka. "Nouveau Catalogue Des Manuscrits de l'IFAN Cheikh A. Diop." <I>Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara</I> 8 (1994): 165-99.