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.
Sanger; Clyde (1928-2022); journalist