Timbuktu Manuscripts Project
for the
Preservation and Promotion
of
African Literary Heritage
The Timbuktu Manuscripts Project was initiated through a collaboration between Norwegian Universities (NUFU), the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu (IHERIAB), and the National Research Council of Mali (CNRST). Through a grant from NORAD and the Ford Foundation, the project was launched in the year 2000.
The Timbuktu Manuscripts Project is the first UNESCO MEMORY of the WORLD Project and the first NEPAD Cultural Project.
PHYSICAL CONSERVATION COMPONENT DIGITIZATION & ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
COMPONENT
(ARELMAT)
RESEARCH
&
HIGHER EDUCATION
COMPONENT
Project Description
Project Document
Description du Projet Sauvegarde des Manuscrits de Tombouctou (La version francaise)
Progress Report Pilot Project 2000-2002
Project Timetable
Project ParticipantsMain cooperating institutions
Institute des Hautes Etudes et de Recherches Islamiques - Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu (IHERI-AB, formerly CEDRAB)
National Centre for Scientific and Technological Research, Bamako (CNRST)
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway
United Nations Educational and Scientific Organisation, (UNESCO), Paris
Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA), Northwestern University & University of Bergen
Financing
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Government of Luxembourg
The Ford Foundation
The Norwegian Council for Higher Education's Programme for Development Research and Education (NUFU)
The United States Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation
This site is maintained by Alida Jay Boye at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo as part of the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).
© 2000 - 2008
Webeditor, design and photos by Alida Jay Boye
University of Oslo
Centre for Development and the Environment
Box 1116 Blindern,
0317 Oslo , Norway
