The archive consists of E-books in PDF format, covering a wide range of genres and subject matter in several West African languages including Wolof, Mandinka, and Pular, the three major languages of Senegal and The Gambia. They include:

• post-literacy materials (e.g. booklets on small enterprise activities, health, human rights, etc.)
• newspapers intended for, and sometimes edited by, the newly literate
• religious materials (e.g. Koranic and Biblical texts)
• poetry
• nformation on AIDS and its prevention
• folktales and epics
• African language translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• articles on oral history and culture

This is an initiative of the American Overseas Digital Library (AODL) and the West African Research Center(WARC)funded by UNESCO. It aims at increasing dissemination of, and access to materials published in indigenous African languages through digital formats.