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Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: political, traditional customs and elections in Botswana; secondary and primary education in Botswana; economy and development in Botswana; biographical information on Philip Matante; discussions on decolonisation, majority rule and UDI in Rhodesia; and the OAU (Organisation of African Unity) and the Republic of the Congo.

Names featured include: Seretse [Khama], Philip Matante, [Arthur] Bottomley, Sebastian Chale, [Cristophe] Gbenye and [Moïse] Tshombe.

Transcribed by Sylvia Stirling 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 aftermath of the assassination of the Prime Minister of Burundi, Pierre Ngendandumwe; Tutsis and Hutu ethnic groups in [Burundi], JK [Jomo Kenyatta], Ny [Julius Nyerere] and [Milton] Obote on the death of WC [Winston Churchill]; and JK [Jomo Kenyatta] at an meeting of OAU (Organisation of African Unity) held January 1965 regarding foreign military intervention in the Republic of the Congo [including a timeline of events from September 1964 - January 1965].

Names featured include: JK [Jomo Kenyatta] and Pierre Ngendandumwe.

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.

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.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Congo.
GP897-899 Slides of British garments worn in the Congo. From Sara Errington.
GP900 Robert Gardiner with Sture C Linner his predcessor 1962.
GP901 Patrice Lumumba, Congo Prime Minister 1960.
GP902 Kasavubu President of Congo and Dag Hammersjkold.

Written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda including: political figures, officials and journalists; list of powers of the Central Bureau [the Congo]; the Force Publique; provinces; the economy in Katanga state and the Congo including taxes, exports and relations with Belgium; the history of the Congo; universities; lists of foreign dignitaries; the UPC [Uganda People's Congress]; the Ugandan economy; tea production in Uganda; and expenses.

Names featured include: Lieutenant General [Emile] Janssens, [Patrice] Lumumba, David Frost; Chief Mwata Yamvo, Paramount of Lunda, [Joseph] Kasa-Vubu, [Levi] Eshkol and AK Sempa.

Transcribed by Pat Elliot 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 longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the IUCN [International Union for Conservation of Nature] 8th General Assembly held in Nairobi, Kenya in September 1963 including discussions on endangered species and the destruction of habitats; ethnic groups in Ngong, Kenya; aid to The Republic of the Congo; Irish troops in Katanga; and Nigeria including political parties, census (October 1963) and education.

Names featured include: Sir Hugh Elliot, Noel Simon, François Bourlière, Peter Scott, [Dr Ed Graham], Dr Coolidge, André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, Aminu Kano, [Abubakar Tafawa] Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Dr SA Aluko, Gambo Sawaba, Tony Kirk-Green, George Shepherd and Ignatius Musazi.

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

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on the UN and Katanga [now part of The Democratic Republic of the Congo] including: UN forces in the Congo; conflict and casualties; the evacuation of foreign nationals; foreign aid; judges, legal training and the judicial system in the Congo; the status of the new government; and medical training in France.

Names featured include: Zaslavsky, Brigadier Ward, [Victor] Lundula, Patrice Lumumba, Colonel Ayayo, Major Gulliver, Dr. Grossen and Sayed Omer Abdel Hamid Adil.

Also contains cuttings of two newspaper articles written in French relating to a [Youth creation project in Leopoldville and the creation of a Kantangese maritime campaign].

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: refugees and food supplies in the Republic of the Congo; military presence in the Republic of the Congo; the death of [Patrice Lumumba]; relations between the UN and the Republic of the Congo; European teachers, teacher training and children in educational establishments in the Republic of the Congo; unrest and conflict in the Republic of the Congo; [Federal] cuts to development schemes in Nyasaland; education and funding for teacher training in East Africa; calls for Kenyan independence; and the release of Jomo Kenyatta.

Names featured include: [Captain Purdon], Moïse Tshombe, Patrice Lumumba, Valerian Zorin, Jean Foster Manzikala, Victor Lundula, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, Sir Roy Welensky, JK [Jomo Kenyatta]; [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and [Ole] Tipis.

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.

Depicts Dag Hammarskjöld standing in a Congolese village with dead bodies lying around and a message scribbled on a wodden fence reads 'go home Dag and let us fight in peace'.