Hausa and Kanuri languages as archive for the history of Sahara and Sahel in 18th and 19th century

Project Information

LANGARCHIV

Grant agreement ID: 759390

DOI

10.3030/759390

Project closed

EC signature date 17 November 2017

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 31 July 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 497 168,00

EU contribution

€ 1 497 168,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Book chapters (8)

To keep from losing the way. Connected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Author(s): Idé Hamani, Sandra Bornand
Published in: Caroline Tagg, Korina Giaxoglou, Kristin Vold Lexander, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World, 2026, ISBN 9781003360339
Publisher: Routledge

The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past - Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, 2018, Page(s) 379-399, ISBN 9789004380189
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004380189_020

Hausa Diasporas and Slavery in Africa, the Atlantic, and the Muslim World

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2026, Page(s) 25
Publisher: Oxford University PressNew York, NY
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.917

Hausa

Author(s): Benedetta Rossi
Published in: Oxford Bibliographies Online, African Studies, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0206

"""Le temps est venu"" : l’appel à la décolonisation dans une chanson reggae d’Idi Sarki"

Author(s): Idé Hamani, Sandra Bornand
Published in: M. Bendinelli, S. Equoy Hutin, M. Him-Aquilli, I. Huré, C. Panis et J. Simon, La politique en musique : Regard pluridisciplinaire sur la circulation des discours musicaux, 2026, Page(s) 55-65, ISBN 978-2-38549-212-0
Publisher: PUFC

1856. Dorugu, un voyageur haoussa en Europe

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: L'Exploration du monde, 2022, Page(s) 389-393, ISBN 9782021406252
Publisher: Le Seuil
DOI: 10.3917/ls.bertr.2007.01.0389

1856. Dorugu, un voyageur haoussa en Europe

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: L'Exploration du monde, 2022, Page(s) 389-393
Publisher: Le Seuil
DOI: 10.3917/ls.bertr.2007.01.0389

Langues

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Reine-Marie Bérard, Bénédicte Girault, Catherine Kikuchi (éd.), Initiation aux études histoiriques, 2020, Page(s) 67-80, ISBN 9782380941210
Publisher: Nouveau Monde Editions

Other (7)

Réflexions sur nos protocoles de transcription et de documentation

Author(s): Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, Cécile van den Avenne, Ari Awagana, Véronique Ginouvès, Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Langarchiv Blog, 2025
Publisher: Hypothèses

Amadou Hampâté Bâ Amkoullel, l’enfant peul. Mémoires Arles, Actes Sud, 1991, 409 p. - Amadou Hampâté Bâ Oui, mon commandant ! Arles, Actes Sud, 1994, 396 p.

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Issue 75, 2021, Page(s) 852-856, ISSN 0395-2649
Publisher: A. Colin
DOI: 10.1017/ahss.2021.30

Pour qui chante Hounsou ? Une voix dans les archives de l'Exposition coloniale de 1931 (Podcast)

Author(s): Cécile van den Avenne
Published in: 2026
Publisher: France Culture

Construire une bibliothèque sonore du Niger

Author(s): Véronique Ginouvès, Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Langarchiv Blog, 2025
Publisher: Hypothèses

Le choix d’une restitution collaborative et collective grâce à Wikipédia

Author(s): Camille Lefebvre
Published in: Langarchiv Blog, 2025
Publisher: Hypothèses

La langue, les tons, la flûte, le chant. Réécouter des enregistrements de l’exposition coloniale de 1931

Author(s): Cécile van den Avenne
Published in: Langarchiv Blog, 2025
Publisher: Hypothèses

État des lieux de la bibliothèque sonore du Niger

Author(s): Léo Nicolini
Published in: Langarchiv Blog, 2026
Publisher: Hypothèses

Peer reviewed articles (5)

De la cassette au fichier numérique : enjeux de l’archivage, du partage et de la restitution des archives orales enregistrées au Niger

Author(s): Véronique Ginouvès, Ibrahim Moussa
Published in: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Issue 156 (2/2024), 2026, Page(s) 91-116, ISSN 0997-1327
Publisher: Edisud Publishers
DOI: 10.4000/130fv

L’introuvable bibliothèque d’Hailé Sélassié : spoliation coloniale et mémoires confisquées

Author(s): Emmie Le Galès
Published in: Revue d'histoire culturelle, Issue 11, 2026, Page(s) 17, ISSN 2780-4143
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/15fd5

Beyond the Atlantic Paradigm

Author(s): Benedetta Rossi
Published in: Journal of Global Slavery, Issue 5/2, 2020, Page(s) 238-269, ISSN 2405-8351
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/2405836x-00502005

Reflections on public slavery and social death

Author(s): Benedetta Rossi
Published in: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Issue 64, 2022, Page(s) 92-104, ISSN 0076-0730
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/bics/qbab024

Les archives sonores dahoméennes de l’Exposition coloniale de Paris (1931). Chronique d’un projet de recherche-création

Author(s): Cécile Van den Avenne
Published in: Gradhiva, Issue 38, 2026, Page(s) 180-183, ISSN 0764-8928
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/12q4e

Monographic books (1)

L’œuvre en kanouri d'al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria)

Author(s): Ari Awagana, Camille Lefebvre
Published in: African Sources for African History, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 502, ISBN 978-90-04-72403-7
Publisher: Brill

Thesis and dissertations (1)

An Encounter of Two Worlds in mid-19th Century Sierra Leone: S.W. Koelle, Ali Eisami, and their African Native Literature

Author(s): Carolin Rippstain
Published in: 2026
Publisher: EHESS