| Description | Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the setting up of a commission in Katanga; Katangan independence day; Moïse Tshombe, copper production and the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK); the UN in Kantanga; Kasai provinces; disturbances at the Katanga-Kasai border; UN and international troops in Katanga; Belgian troops in Rwanda and Burundi; reports of disturbances in Burimba and Kigali; Congo-Brazzaville; the Burundi government; the new government in the Congo; relations between Burundi and Rwanda; the economy in Burundi; government ministers in [Burundi ?]; the Economic Union; continued Belgian involvement in Burundi; Ugandan refugees; Mwanza and coop unions; central and local governments, the economy and independence in Uganda; the EACSO [East African Common Services Organisation]; local government and the civil service in Tanganyika; ZAPU and the Southern Rhodesian government; and the repatriation of Buluba people by the UN in the Congo.
Names featured include: Moïse Tshombe, Jean Back, Sir Derek Dodson, Lord Home, [Robert] McNamara, André Lubaya, Barthélemy Mukenge, Patrice Lumumba, Congo-Brazzaville, Benjamin Turok, Michel Rwagasana, André Muhirwa, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Mr. Muhirwa, [Jean-Baptiste] Ntidendereza, Joseph Biroli, Colonel Logiest, Paul Bomani, Mayanza-Nkangi, [Grace] Ibingira, [Cuthbert Joseph] Obwangor, [Milton] Obote, George Magezi, Sir Edgar Whitehead, Ronald Isaac Sibanda and Joshua Nkomo.
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. |