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: Cass
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: History; Sources
Notes: First ed. originally published in 3 vols.  Lagos, 1928.

"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.