Contact Information

• Name:

  Direction des Archives Nationales

• Postal Address:

  BP 638
  N'djamena
  Chad

• Telephone:

  (235) 52 33 75

• Director:

  Narayam Ndissedibaye

• Year founded:

  1962

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Archive

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Business records
  Ecclesiastical records
  Government records
  Manuscripts
  Newspapers
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  Posters
  

• Size:

  180 linear meters

• Holdings:

  Colonial archives: treaties with local chiefs and French colonials; political, economic, and social reports, monographs, official journals, etc. (1895-1959). Post-indepedence: creation of administrative units, political reports, monographs, development plans, elections, etc. In the prefectures, there are colonial archives, but they haven't been processed.

• Receiving new material?

  No

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Nationals: ministerial authorization or authorization from the Director of Archives. Foreigners: letter of recommendation from their embassy.

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Guides
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

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