Bestanddeel 64 - Addis May '63

1 notebook and 2 pdf files

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: [the Summit Conference of Independent African States, held at Addis Ababa from 22-25 May 1963] including references to civil rights protests in Birmingham Alabama in the United States, African unity and cooperation between African countries, apartheid in South Africa and the creation of union of African states.

Names featured include: [Milton] Obote, Martin Luther King, Sékou Touré, Julius [Nyerere], [Habib] Bourguiba, [Ahmadou] Ahidjo, [Kwame] Nkrumah, [Fulbert] Youlou, [Jomo] Kenyatta, President Duvalier, [Léopold Sédar] Senghor, [Oginga] Odinga, [Abubakar Tafawa] Balewa and [Gamal Abdel] Nasser.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive's Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

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.

Copyright: Clyde Sanger

01/06/2047