Central Africa

Scope and Contents This file contains Chilembwe letters dating from 1900 to 1915 (copies). Letters in the Zomba Archives (9) (with covering letter, 17 March 1965). Writers: Chilembwe, Peters, Bismarck. Includes Minutes of the National Industrial Union Meetings, 15 June 1909 and 14 August 1909. Letters from British East Africa. Sent as 'News from the Field' to the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board of...

Scope and Contents This section contains material (mostly printed reports) on: Land Commission 1946 – Nyasaland Protectorate Report of the Commission of Inquiry: Native Rising within Nyasaland Protectorate Colonial Annual Report, Nyasaland, 1947 Inter-territorial organisation in East Africa: Revised Proposals, 1947 The Colonial Empire (1947-48) ...

Scope and Contents This file contains printed reports and pamphlets on: The Capricorn Contract. Indians and the Kenya Highlands: Cavendish-Bentinck. Political Progress in Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Memo: Federation of British East African Territories. The Kenya Indian Congress – 1952. Colonial Questions: How should Britain act? ...

Scope and Contents This file contains copies from the Public Record Office, of correspondence from H. H. Johnston, HM Commissioner for Central Africa, Colonial Office.Folder 1:- Clement H Hill: Memo. Importance of East Coast of Africa to Britain, 20 October 1884. - Letter H H. Johnston to Cecil Rhodes. Refutes all accusations, 8 October 1893. - Letter H H Johnston to Ear of Roseberry. Encloses his letter to Rhodes (copy), 8 October 1893. Asks for leave of absence after...

Scope and Contents This files contains reports, pamphlets, papers and cuttings relating to the federation and indenpendence of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Central African Territories: Geographical, Historical and Economic Survey, 1951. Draft Federal Scheme: S. Rhodesia, N. Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1952. The Federal Scheme: 1953. Report on Central Africa: 1959. ...

Scope and Contents George Shepperson: Articles, Addresses, Talks, Letters. 'Malawi – Today and Yesterday'. ND 'Africans studied in Prison' The Scotsman, 17 November 1960 'The Development of Nationalism in Nyasaland'. Aberdeen University, 21 October 1961. 'Abolitionism and African Political Thought'. Seminar on African Studies, University...

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Photograph of a herd of Mashona cattle surrounding a fig tree in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Contains material relating to Central Africa, 1958-64, and to Rhodesia, 1965-70. There is material on South Africa particularly on apartheid, the Springbok tour, and arms for South Africa; Congo; race relations; colour and citizenship; the United Nations; the UK; and, Sweden and other countries. There are newspaper cuttings and also pamphlets, the latter on African independence, the Church, Sweden, the rule of law, politics, immigration, Rhodesia, South Africa, and international agencies. In...

Scope and Contents The collection - E2005.13 - is composed of typescript and manuscript material in the form of off-prints, articles, reports, notebooks, letters, postcards, and diary. There are also photographs.Within the typescript material and collection of letters, there is: correspondence with users of the collection covering period 1980-1985; a copy of Manners and customs of the Ba-Bemba, collected by W. Freshwater, Mbereshi, 1906; manuscript postcard notes,...

Scope and Contents The unsorted records of the Scottish Council for African Questions includes, in MS 2495, typescript and manuscript documents on Central Africa, copies of the "Newsletter. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland", and newspapers and newspaper clippings. In MS 2496 there is a selection of journals, government reports, parliamentary debates, and colonial reports, for example Northern Rhodesia 1951, Nyasaland 1957, "Northern Rhodesia. Proposals for constitutional change. 1958", and "Report of...