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.

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

Subjects covered include: the Gulf War, 1990; referendum on Quebec Independence, 1989-1997; racism, 1994-1997; killings in Somalia, 1994; new Prime Minister, 1993; campaign for better rights and living conditions for Native Americans, 1990-1991 and Brian Mulroney re-elected as Prime Minister, 1998.

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.

Diagrams, pictures and illustrations, produced by Gemini News Service, relating to displaced people.

Subjects covered include: refugees' destinations, 1985; the rise of refugees in Europe, nd and the number of refugees accross the world, 1997.

Also includes a selection of photographs of refugees from Somalia, Vietnam, Palestine, nd and a poster 'Geography of Exile' produced by the United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees, nd.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: ZANU [Zimbabwe African National Union] executives; the economy and industry [in Rhodesia]; journalism training for African journalists; the Kamba people of Kenya; talks on the NFD and the Kenya - Somalia border; and discussions regarding amendments to the Constitution of Kenya.

Names featured include: [Ndabaningi] Sithole, Leopold Takawira, Robert Mugabe, Washington Malianga, Enos Nkala, Noel Mukono, Henry Hamadzirysi, Enos Chikowore, N Shamuyarira, Morris Nyagumbo, Eddison Zvobgo, [Joshua] Nkomo, Machiro, [Paul] Ngei, [Ronald] Ngala, [Joseph] Murumbi, [Jomo] Kenyatta and Omolo Agar.

Transcribed by Rosemary Dowsett 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 in longhand, containing lists of expenses and work and payments.

The notebook also contains a small newspaper cutting from June 27 titled "Somalia 'looking for scapegoat".

Contains one photograph with caption of a Somalian child with severe malnutrition, nd.

Photograph by Arlid Vollan/UNICEF

Includes Embassies and High Commissions for:

Antigua and Barbuda
Egypt
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Eastern Caribbean States
Chile
Cuba
Denmark
Fiji
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Laos
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Republic
United States
Vietnam
Zimbabwe