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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.

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 conference attendees and absentees, discussions around a union of African states, the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and a draft charter.

Names featured include: U Thant, King Hassan, Omar Loufti, [Gamal Abdel] Nasser, [Ahmed] Ben Bella, [Kwame] Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, [Tsitahana], Léopold Senghor, [Félix] Houphouët-Boigny, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, [Milton] Margai, [Aden Abdulla] Osman, [Maurice] Yaméogo, [Modibo] Keïta, [Chief Jeremiah Obafemi] Awolowo, JK [Jomo Kenyatta], Galgallo, OO [Oginga Odinga], Yusuf Ismail Samatar, Mzwandile, [Jaja] Wachuku, [Oscar] Kambona, [Roy] Welensky and [Winston] Field.

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.

Depicts Georgy Malenkov, John Selwyn-Lloyd, Allen Dulles and Christian Pineau setting afloat paper boats in the Suez Canal while Nasser sits on a dam holding the key to a free passage.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Egypt.
GP890 President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin celebrate the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, 1979
GP891 Egyptian labourers dragging a block of limestone

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Egypt.

Subjects include: record floods in Egypt,1996; landmines in Egypt, 1997; women's rights and education, 1996; arrest of Egyptian human rights leader,1998; Egyptian film "The Terrorist",1994; population explosion in Egypt,1993; world's oldest book on display in Cairo, 1993; debate on big dams, 1993; Egyptian extremists effect on tourism,1993; effect of earthquake on Cairo's housing 1992; account of the 1967, 6 day war with Israel, 1997; decline in use of Arabic linked to computer use of English, 1993; rules to encourage cleaner elections in Egypt, 2000; electoral change, 1990.