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: Oryx and zoos; diplomatic relations between Somalia and Great Britain; journalist training course at the Royal College and the freedom of the press in Kenya; political parties in Uganda (UPC and KY); education in Buganda; and politics in Ugandan kingdoms.

Names featured include: Maurice A Machris, Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, John Wasswa, [Milton] Obote, Sepiriya Masembe Kabal, Mayanja and Francis Walugembe.

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 Buganda and PAFMECA [Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa] including: the Buganda Lukiiko [Buganda's Legislative Assembly] and debates on independence; Buganda's relationship with Britain; the Katikkiro of Buganda; the Buganda Agreement, 1955;calls for Bugandan independence from Britain, December 1960; the PAF [PAFMECA] conference and Independence of East Africa; Kenya's finances; the role of PAFMECA and [Ruanda-Urundi] independence.

Names featured include: V. Kisosonkole, Dandi Ochang, Iain Macleod, EMK Mulira, Tom Myboya and KK [Kenneth Kaunda].

Transcribed 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.

Includes black and white photographic prints and transparencies of:

• Chris Andrews, 'a Zambian journalist, (Gem corr 13)'
• Peter Bostock, 'author of the jumbo jet series, (Gem corr 2.c70) - prints of this photograph are filed with United Kingdom. 2. 2'
• Susan Bramwell
• Oliver Carruthers, 'Gemini News Service executive editor, (Gem corr 11)'
• Chetan Chadha
• KK Duggal, 'Gemini News Service correspondent in New Delhi, (Gem corr 7)'
• Russell Griffin
• Brendan Grimsham
• Richard Hall, 'Editor of African Development and editor of the Gemini News Service editorial staff, (Gem corr 1)'
• Bob Hawkins, 'Hong Kong'
• Peter Hawthorne, 'Gemini correspondent in Johannesburg, (Gem corr 8)'
• Godfrey Jacobs
• Dara Kadva, 'Gemini News Service's correspondent in Kuwait, (Gem corr 12)'
• Luke KazinJa, 'Uganda'
• John Makobi, 'Sierra Leone'
• Fred Mpanga, 'Gemini News Service reporter, (Gem corr 9)'
• Francis Mwansa, 'Zambia'
• Tim Nyahunzvi
• Biola Olasope
• Tunji Oseni
• Betty Pilkington, 'UN correspondent'
• Alan Rake, 'editor of African Development, (Gem corr 18) - prints of this photograph are filed with New Zealand. 9. 4'
• Eric Robins 'Kenya'
• Evelyn Ryan
• Clyde Sanger, 'Gemini News Service correspondent in Africa (Gem corr 6)'
• Jan Searle, 'Gibraltar'
• Kayser Sing
• Felice Spinoglio, 'chairman of the Italian mining firm, Minera Di Fragne-Chialamberto SAS, (Gem corr 7)'
• Marie Nic Suibhne, 'Erie, Middle East'
• K Symons
• Don Taylor
• Sam Uba, 'Gemini News Service reporter, (Gem corr 10)'
• Don Whitington, 'Australia'

Also includes photographs and transparencies of a group of visitors being shown around the Gemini office, nd.

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

Written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda including: political figures, officials and journalists; list of powers of the Central Bureau [the Congo]; the Force Publique; provinces; the economy in Katanga state and the Congo including taxes, exports and relations with Belgium; the history of the Congo; universities; lists of foreign dignitaries; the UPC [Uganda People's Congress]; the Ugandan economy; tea production in Uganda; and expenses.

Names featured include: Lieutenant General [Emile] Janssens, [Patrice] Lumumba, David Frost; Chief Mwata Yamvo, Paramount of Lunda, [Joseph] Kasa-Vubu, [Levi] Eshkol and AK Sempa.

Transcribed by Pat Elliot 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.

Notebook, written almost entirely in shorthand with only occasional longhand words, containing notes on: the Convention of Association [in Kenya] including discussion of farming, Kenyan independence and European and Asian delegates; Kenyan political parties, the British Government and land settlement schemes; and Bunyoro and [elections].

Names featured include: [Maconochie] Welwood, [AT] Culwick, Markham, David Cole, MacAllan, Lord Wedgwood and Rajat Neogy.

Transcribed 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.

Correspondence with newspapers and news agencies; lists of local contacts and travel reports relating to Derek Ingram's (Gemini editor), promotional visits to Africa, April 1968 - June 1968, including Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Also includes a promotional report of the International Press Conference, Kenya, by Derek Ingram, June 1968.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: discussions on Kenyan independence; UN troops, Katanga and the Republic of the Congo; the King's African Rifles (KAR) in East Africa; and Buganda, Uganda.

Names featured include: [Patrice] Lumumba, [Moïse] Tshombe, [Joseph] Kiwele, [Joseph] Kasa-Vubu, [Ian] Berendsen, [Joseph] Iléo, Michael Wood, [Munyua] Waiyaki, [Michael] Blundell, Masinde Muliro, [Fitz] de Souza, [McAllen] and TM [Tom Mboya].

The notebook also contains newspaper cutting '63,000 register as voters for Nairobi seats' (not digitised).

Transcribed 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.