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June 10, 1971

Mr. Jacques Baulin
Counselor to the President of the Republic of Niger
Niamey
Niger

Dear Mr. Baulin :
I regret that I was not in New York during your visit in April, and thereby missed the opportunity of meeting with you. Miss Cynthia Wise of our office prepared a memorandum of your April 27 metting with her at the Permanent Mission of Niger to the United Nations. It was through this memorandum that I became aware of your visit and of the needs expressed by you of President Boubou Hama in the domain of oral tradition. Pursuant to that meeting I have taken action in two arcs which I would like to report here.
The African Studies Association is a grouping of primarily American scholars, teachers and student interested in Africa. This organization includes specialists in the fields of history, economics, literature, political science, linguistics, geography, anthropology and art. Most leading American scholars involved in the study of Africa belong to ASA. One of its sub-committees, the Committee on Oral Data has been given a sum of money by the Ford Foundation to support researchers who are investigating oral history and contributing to archives. Very soon I hope to be able to bring together Ambassador Georges Condat, and Professor Graham Irwin, the Chairman of the Committee on Oral Data to discuss the possibility of cooperation with President Boubou in this area of mutual interest. I shall, of course, inform you through the appropriate channels of the outcome of our meeting.
In a second area I have taken the liberty of contacting one of this country’s leading historians concerned with the oral traditions and history of the West African Sahel, selected North African areas and the linkages between these areas. This gentleman, Professor William Brown, has undertaken extensice research in the Macina area of Mali, and has recently returned from a field trip surveying archives and data in Africa. He is competent in both French and Arabic. He is presently on the history faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin and will join the faculty of Harvard University, Cambridge,

Massachusetts at the beginning of the next academic year. Professor Brown has been invited to spend to second semester of the 1971-1972 academic year at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. During this time he hopes to visit Niger, and would welcome the opportunity of meeting with President Boubou to investigate the state of oral data gathering in Niger. I might add that Professor Brown has had much experience in photographing African historical documents for microflim.

I would strongly suggest that you contact Professor Brown at the University of Wisconsin and relay to him the specific needs of Niger in gathering and recording oral tradition, and the preservation of manuscripts on microfilms. He has assured me that this is a field in which he has maintained continuing professional interest, and I am sure that he stands ready to assist Niger in any way that he can.
If we can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at the African-American Institute either directly, or through our representative in Niamey, Mrs. Gabriella Ranzoni. Also ; please convey my personal best wishes to President and Mrs. Diori.
Your sincerely,


Gilbert K. Sherman
Program Officer
Evaluation & Development

CKS:hb
cc : Ambassador Georges Condat
Professor William Brown
Mrs. Gabriella Ranzoni

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