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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.

Newspaper and journal articles written about Gemini News Service, 1966-2003, including: articles and adverts in the UK Press Gazette concerning the launch of Gemini, 1966-1968, Gemini's coverage of the fall of Biafra, Nigeria, 1970 and the launch of the Service's website, 2001; an article by Gemini correspondent Kelly McParland titled, 'Gemini and the Commonwealth', published in The Round Table, 1986; articles from The Media Reporter concerning the suspension and re-launch of Gemini, 1982-1983; extracts from 'The Newspapers Handbook' edited by Richard Keeble, (Routledge, 2001), including profiles of Gemini and Daya Thussu (Gemini associate editor); a chapter on Gemini from 'Committed Observer: memoirs of a journalist', by Andrew Graham Yooll, (University of Luton Press, 1995) and an extract from an online article written by former Gemini correspondent, Joshua Newton regarding the closure of Gemini, 13 May 2003.

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

Subjects covered include: the Nigeria/Cameroon war, 1995-1996; Ozone depletion, 1995; hosting the OAU, 1996; droughts and Cholera, 1996 and "Afritude" fashion, 1994.

Includes correspondence from and concerning Legum.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Anthony Sampson; Michael Davie; Richard Findlater; William Millinship; Gritta Weil; Donald Trelford; Shlomo Hillel (Israeli Minister of Police); Roger Harrison.
Subjects covered include: Legum's application to join The Observer; his work as Commonwealth correspondent; Michael Scott; Drum newspaper; affairs concerning various countries including Sudan, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, China, Nigeria, Israel, Spain, Uganda, and the United States; the Suez Crisis; an application to the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth for a grant by Legum; Dr [Benjamin] Spock; suggested articles on children's issues; Henry Kissinger and other senior US officials; Lonrho's takeover of The Observer.
Also includes: cuttings on South African affairs; 'confidential non-attributable talk with George Brown', September 1966; 'Reasons for Israel's decision to go to war', 1967; copy letter from Legum to Paul Foot; copy of Legum article, 'How Africa's Asians helped to create their own peril', 8 August 1972; comments on Arianna Stassinopolous' 'The Female Woman' by Margaret Legum; draft of article on Ghana trial; information on Travellers' Rights International; notice of talk by Legum in New York; draft of 'International Flow of News' by Legum and John Cornwell; copy of cartoon of Legum by Trog.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Records relating to Gemini News Service, September 1976 - June 1984.

Includes: a draft memorandum of agreement between Gemini and William Collins Sons & Company Ltd (publishers) for the printing and publishing of 'The Guardian Nigerian Handbook 1982', nd; correspondence between Ian Wright, Betty Jerman and Gerald Knight concerning proposals for the publication of Guardian books, December 1982 - September 1983 and correspondence between Ian Wright, Brenda Polan, Jane McLoughlin, Gerald Knight and Jim Markwick concerning a quarter page 'cool summer knit kit' offer, June 1984.

Also includes a copy of page 10 of the Guardian, 15 September 1976 which contains an article by Richard Scott on the Scott Trust and adverts wishing the Guardian well in its move to Farringdon Road.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright

Correspondence concerning subscriptions and potential subscriptions to Gemini News Service by Nigerian newspapers, magazines, news agencies, publishers and educational establishments, 1966-1991, including African Concord; African News Service; Daily Sketch; Daily Times; Newswatch Nigeria; Nigerian Herald; Nigeria Standard; Punch Limited; Renaissance, The Tide, University of Nigeria and Benue Printing and Publishing corporation.

Also contains correspondence with the Nigerian Institute of Journalism concerning the work placement of a Nigerian journalist at Gemini, 1991.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Ghana.
GP892 William Ofon Atta
GP893 Used in Common Wealth Mag. Mr Krobo Edusei, Ghana Board of Public Tribunal
GP894 Mr Krobo Edusei. Ghana Board of Public Tribunal
GP895-896 During after Yaw Sam being attacked by Togolses police
GP897 1GH3-11/71 Ghanian goalkeeper Robert Mensah
GP898 Brigadier Charles Beausoleil, of The Ghana Supreme Military Council with the Namibian refugee children now being educated in Ghana under the commonwealth programme
GP899 PFP Candidate Victor Owusu
GP900 Dr KA Busia Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 until Jan 1972. 2GH1-872. Frist elected PM after Mr Krobo Edusei
GP901 General Achempong
GP902 Brigadier A.A. Afrifa
GP903 Nana Opoku Ware 11, King of the Ashanti people, hands over the football cup to the acting catain of the winning team, Kotoko the Leeds of Ghana, 1GH3-4/74
GP904 Charlotte Dada. Ghanian singer, GH4-1G70
GP905 JWK Harlley, Deputy Chairman of the National Liberation Council since 1966
GP906 Komla Gbedemah. Ghana's Leader of National Alliance of Liberals
GP907 Mr. A.K.Deku, Commissioner of Police (CID) and NLC member responsible for Education
GP908 Olu Ladele from Nigeria discovers a business success story for the BBC programme
GP909 Akosombo, Ghana: The great lake created by the Volta Dam is producing increased hauls of fish. Here are smoked talapia on sale at Akosombo market, GH2-1F70
GP910 Lt. Gen. JA Ankrah, Chairman, National Liberation Council

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes from EAF [East African Federation] Conference, Kenya, November 1963 including discussions around the creation of a political and economic federation, EACSO (East African Common Services Organization (EACSO), Pan-Africanism, freedom of movement and unions.

Names featured include: [Achieng] Oneko, [Joseph S.] Nye, Grace Ibingira, Dandi Ocheng, [Jacob] Namfua, Malecela, Oliver Knowles, Hazelwood, Tom Mboya and [Peter Okondo].

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.