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Title
Date(s)
- July 1964 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 notebook and 2 pdf files
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Scope and content
Notebook written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on the OAU [Organisation of African Unity] summit held in Cairo, Egypt in July 1964 including: attendees; committees; Southern Rhodesia; South Africa; Angola; unity between African states; change of government in the Republic of the Congo; and West Germany and Tanzania.
Names featured include: [Abubakar Tafawa] Balewa, [Ayo] Adebanjo, [Jonas] Savimbi, Moïse Tshombe, [Kwame] Nkrumah and [Milton] Obote.
Transcribed by Gill Stoker 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.
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Conditions of access and use area
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
01/08/2048