Some Eighteenth-Century Documents Concerning Eastern Africa in the Archives de France

Abstract

During the summer of 1964, with the kind assistance of a grant from the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, the writer was able to make some further searches in the Archives de France for documents concerning the eastern African Coast. The object of this present paper is to give a brief description of the results, which brought to light more than sixty fresh documents which throw some light upon the history of eastern African during what is still a most obscure period.