muniravb/AfricanPresidentialSpeeches

Database of African presidential speeches collected by Dr. Scott Straus, analyzed and discussed his book: "Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa." # AfricanPresidentialSpeeches Database of African presidential speeches collected by Dr. Scott Straus, analyzed and discussed his book: "Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa". This database is compiled from Dr. Straus' original speech dataset by Dr. Elizabeth von Briesen. ## Cote d'Ivoire and Rwanda folders contain: *Subfolders* * Scans of original speeches. * Text files of cropped and digitized speeches in the original language (58 of 64 speeches digitized for Cote d'Ivoire, 60 of 82 speeches digitized for Rwanda). * Translations of text files. * **Note -** original speeches with multiple speeches are split into multiple digitized files as appropriate. *Files* * Metadata spreadsheet with information about source and speaker for each speech. * ReadMe with links to original source url's as well as archived versions when available (original webpage is no longer working). ## Mali, Senegal, and Sudan folders contain: *Subfolder* * Scans of original speeches. *Files* * Metadata spreadsheet with information about source and speaker for each speech. * ReadMe with links to original source url's as well as archived versions when available (original webpage is no longer working).