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Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes including: questions concerning the Federation [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland also known as CAF, the Central African Federation]; discussions on secession and the Federation; notes from Federal Assembly meetings including discussions on of the Federation and failure of the British Government in Northern Rhodesia; the Loan Council; the Power Surcharge Development Fund; African nationalism in Northern Rhodesia; and Barotseland and CAF.

Names featured include: Sir Roy [Welensky], [Hastings] Banda, [Edgar] Whitehead, [Kenneth] Kaunda, Winston Field, Lord Home, Sir Donald Macintyre, Sir Hugh Foot, [Iain] Macleod, [Jomo] Kenyatta, Adlai [Stevenson] and Ian Smith.

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.

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.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on the Cairo Conference of Nonaligned Nations held in October 1964 including discussions on: attendees, wars, peace, imperialism, colonialism, the UN, the participation of 'MT' [Moïse Tshombe], the OAU [Orgainsation of African Unity] and the Republic of the Congo, relations between Malaysia and Indonesia, nuclear weapons and the Republic of Yemen.

Names featured include: [Gamal Abde]l Nasser, [Moïse Tshombe], J Kasa-Vubu, Sukarno, [Jack] de Silva, [Kwame] Nkrumah, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Kahtan el-Shaabi.

Transcribed by Pauline Thomas 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.