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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 from [the Summit Conference of Independent African States, held at Addis Ababa from 22-25 May 1963] including discussions on: African unity; colonialism in Africa; independence; the creation of an organisation for African unity; trade; defence; education; apartheid in South Africa; the UN and common goals. Also contains notes on the Northern Province People's Progressive Party (NPPPP), the Northern Frontier District, Kenya and the Somali communities of Northern Kenya and economic and social developments in Ethiopia.

Names featured include: Ahmed Sékou Touré, [Julius Kambarage] Nyerere, [William V. S.] Tubman, [Ibrahim Abboud] and Haile Selassie.

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.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Canada.
Expo 67, Montreal:
GP78 Australian Pavillion
GP79 Ethiopian Pavillion
GP80-88 Africa Place artworks, photos by Monica Mugan
GP89 Barbados/ Guyana Pavillion
GP90-91 Ceylon Pavillion
GP92 Cuban Pavillion
GP93 German Pavillion / Canadian Pavillion / French Pavillion / British Pavillion / US Pavillion
GP94 Moshe Safdie, designer of Expo's Habitat 67
GP95-98 Habitat 67
GP99-101 Indian Pavillion
GP102 Jamaican Pavillion
GP103 Plaza of the Americas
GP104 Mauritius Pavillion
GP105 Taiwan Pavillion
GP106-109 Man the Explorer Pavillion and Man the Producer Pavillion models
GP110 Trinidad and Tobago Pavillion
GP111 Thailand Pavillion
GP112 La Ronde model
GP113 Asbestos rock fountain model
GP114 Metro rails and vehicles
GP115 The Gyrotron model
GP116 The Expo stadium model
GP117 The village model
GP118 The Youth Pavilion model.
GP119 Mackay Pier, Habitat and Community and Health Pavillion models
GP120 International Trade Centre Pavilion
GP121 Christian Pavilion model
GP122 Pavilion model
GP123 Sculptures
GP124 Baule and Bini masks and Basonge figure
GP125 Bird mask
GP126 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal, is interviewed
GP127 Jewish community pavilion
GP128 UN pavilion model
GP129 Expo 67 photo brochure
Other photos:
GP 536 Maurice Strong: Director General of UN (1971)
GP 537 Flora McDonald, Foreign Minister of Canada circa 1969
GP 538 Joey Smallwood: District Prime Minister of Newfoundland
GP 539 Expo 70: Model of Canadian Pavillon
GP 540 Jester of city of Canada circa 1970
GP 574 Simplified keyboard for Arabic Script processor
GP 575 Dr Hyder with his Simplified keyboard for Arabic Script processor
GP 577 Dr Robert Baird McClure with the CBC crew in Ratlam Christian hospital
GP 578 Dr Robert Baird McClure
GP 579 Davidee Kagvik and Iyola discussing their carvings at the London Museum of Mankind Exhibiton
GP 580 John McKenzie, Commonwealth Arts Festival coordinator
GP 581 Eskimo women - North Western Territories
GP 656 Colour photograph of Mr Yogrsh Varhade, President of the Ambassador Centre for Justice and Peace, Toronto.

Includes: draft articles, notes and related correspondence by Clyde Sanger for the IDRC [International Development Research Centre] and CIDA [Canadian International Development Agency]; papers relating to Sanger's research for a booklet on the Seeds of Survival project; an address given by Haile Sellassie at the conference of Heads of African States and Governments, 22 May 1963; notes of a conversation with Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, 1971 and clippings on Pierre Trudeau.

Photograph selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to General Disasters.
GP129 Ethiopia. The seven distinct phases of growth and development of locusts displayed with a ruler, ending at the large 'gregarious stage' that devour crops. 6970/A/29 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP130 Pakistan. Young locusts on the march in the sand. 'When this ban of hoppers matures it will join other bans to form a swarm. When this happens they are ready and capable of migrating thousands of miles and all the nations of the Locust Belt are in trouble'. 4865/9 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP131 Morocco. 'This is what it looked like when the desert locusts in their mulit-millions hit morocco at the start of the great plague of 1954-62. Experts believe that this particular ocust swarm migrated from the Horn of Africa all the way across the continent'. Locusts flying through streets. 1066/1 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP132 Tunisia. 'Locusts swarms like this one were a familiar and terrifying sight throughout the Magreb countries during the catastrophic plague of 1954-62'. A man standing in the middle of a giant plague of locusts. 1066/10 written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP133 Sudan. A locust being measured by a worker in a laboratory of Khartoum in the Sudan. Such laboratory study is the basic and necessary detective work of anti-locust control campaigns. 6870/A/7 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP134 Ethiopia. 'Two Ethiopian anti-locust field workers perpare dead locusts for transport to the main laboratory in Asmara for study. Measurements of the insects wings and other body parts are taken regularly because they tell the experts much about a swarm's breeding density and place of origin'. United Nations truck in the background. 6870/G/5A written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP135 Algeria. 'In Algeria's Wadi In Debirene and anti-locust field inspector is about to catch a mature desert locust for study'. He is using a giant net in the desert. 5869/E/17 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP136 Ethiopia. 'Piles of dead locusts in the Ethiopian highlands. This swarm was sprayed with Dieldrin by air for four weeks and wiped out entirely. But not before the locusts had left whole areas in a shamble'. 6870/A/4 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP137 Somalia. 'A nomad walks through a medium thick swarm of desert locusts along Somalia's northern coast'. In the desert. 6870/14 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP138 'Sparse rain, poor land, antiquated tools, such as seen here in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), keep most African farm families at the subsistence level, where a crop failure can mean hunger and even starvation. Three men dig in the dry dirt with trowel-like tools. B. on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP139 'The village of KK Nallur, India is linked with Shincliffe, near Durham. During June and July the monsoon winds damage the thatched roofs. Every year extensive repairs must be carried out before the second monsoon in August and September'. Here two women and two men are repairing a house with logs and other building supplies. Black and white photo.
GP140 'Millions of hecatres of arable land are lost each year to "desertification" - including erosion, loss of topsoil from flooding, ad over-grazing by animals. These windbreaks in Tunisia battle the creeping desert'. Three people setting up the plant windbreakers using shovels and other tools, to try and hold off the sand. D. written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Ethiopia.
GP882 An armed Eritrean peasant. Acquired or taken? by David Robie (with negative)
GP883 Building stone walls
GP884 Woman and child, by Seamus Murphy, Eritea c1993
GP885 Woman and child in Save the Children health clinic, by Lesley Garner 13 February 1976
GP886 Young boy reunited with his aunt, by Edith Simmons. August 1989
GP887 Ethiopian Prime Minister Endalkachew Makonnenn with Ato Betru Admassie, of the Imperial Board of Telecommunications
GP888 Painting by Stifanos
GP889 Stifanos

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

Subjects include: re-uniting of children separated in the 1984-1985 famine with their families, 1990; President Mengistu renounces socialism in Ethiopia, 1990; collapse of Mengistu regime and its consequences for Ethiopia, 1991; Ghebray Berhane, Ethiopian diplomat, appointed Secretary General of African-Caribbean-Pacific Group(ACP), 1990; Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee (EHRC), nd; Ethiopian famine, 1994; democracy in post- Mengistu era, 1994; cut flower production in Ethiopia, 1995; female genital mutation/circumcision amongst Ethiopian women, 1996; Ousted President Mengistu's relationship with President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his possible move to North Korea, 1998; Olympic gold medal favourite Haile Gebrselassie, 1996; Northern Ethiopia ( Tigray region) rebuilding its health-care facilities, 1997..

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: Somalia including military and economic aid, relations with Kenya and the OAU; the Kenyan government; relations between Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia including talks between Abdullahi Issa and Jomo Kenyatta and discussions around the creation of an East African Federation. [These notes may relate to the Kenya EAF Conference, November 1963.]

Names featured include: Abdullahi Issa, JK [Jomo Kenyatta], [Jean-Marie] Seroney, [Grace] Ibingira, [Vladimir] Kollontai, [Arthur] Hazlewood, [Ronald] Ngala and A Kodhek.

Transcribed by Barbara Prynn 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 Kenya including: joint government discussions; regional constitutions; Kenyan independence; wheat maize; constitutional discussions; and political parties and unions.

Names featured include: Robertson, [Tom] Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta.

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.