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Title
Date(s)
- May 1961 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 notebook and 2 pdf files
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Archival history
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Scope and content
Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: KADU, KANU and the Kenyan government; Kenyan independence; the Central Legislative Assembly and the economy; the government in Tanganyika; calls for the release of Jomo Kenyatta; Njoro settlers and the murder of Mrs Nora Osboune.
Names featured include: Tom [Mboya], [Ian] Macleod, [Fred] Mati, [Josef] Mathenge, [Ibrahim] Nathoo, B. Mack, [Ronald] Ngala, [Julius] Nyerere, Mwai [Kibaki], [Michael] Blundell, [Jeremy] Raisman, [Ernest] Vasey, Mackenzie, Jomo Kenyatta, [Masinde] Muliro and Philip Bodley-Scott.
Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.
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Conditions governing access
The original notebook and full transcript is closed in line with data privacy. A redacted version of the transcript is available. Please contact the archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Clyde Sanger
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Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
01/06/2045