Sudanese memoirs.
Subtitle: Being mainly translations of a number of Arabic manuscripts relating to the central and western Sudan
By: by H. R. Palmer.
Publisher: Printed by the government printer
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Lagos
Language: eng; ara
Subjects: Sudan -- History -- Sources.
Notes: "The mss. which are translated in these volumes have been obtained at different times and in different places in the western Sudan during the past twenty-four years. The text of the 'Kanem war of Idris Alooma' is the one procured by the traveller Barth in 1853 and sent by him to the British Foreign office, as was its companion ms. 'A history of the first twelve years of the reign of Mai Idris Alooma' ... Many of the others are anonymous and some may be said to represent merely oral tradition."--Pref.