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'A grave without a cross'
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
A.C. Barnes collection on East Africa, Nigeria, and Fiji, 1914-1933
African land utilisation and settlement, Kenya
African travel diary of A.R.H. Mann
A diary describing a journey from London via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons and South Africa in four volumes, each of 50 pages.
Album of family photographs taken in Kenya 1934-1936
A.R.H. Mann Collection, 1935
Articles from 'The Field'
Bob Le Sueur in East and Southern Africa
A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).
Camera studies: Kenya 1919
Cathedral Church of All Saints, Nairobi
Central Office of Information photograph collection
Christy collection of photographs on Africa
Church Missionary Society photograph collection
Clearing a fallen tree, East Africa (?Mombasa)
A collection of three uncaptioned loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. There is no indication with the prints of what they depict and their source is unknown. The pictures illustrate attempts to remove a tree which has fallen across the path of a narrow gauge rail track. From the smallness of the line, it is possible that this is the trolley line on Mombasa Island.
Commonwealth in Focus Slides
Communications in East Africa
Collection of loose prints, 240 x 195 mm., showing various aspects of transport and communications, taken by staff photographers. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Diary: 'From west to east through Africa'
Dictionary of East African biography
A wide range of material compiled in preparation for the D.E.A.B. A few letters and other items are in French, German and Italian.
Dobinson Collection
Personal papers, photographs, books and news cuttings relating to the Dobinsons' work and travel in England and East Africa.
Dulcie Barron Collection
Album containing photographs of Entebbe and Kampala, colleagues and friends, travels around the country, and of the people of Uganda, including celebrations for the return of Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda.
East Africa and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during the 1940s
'East Africa and Uganda 1912'
East African Photographs
East African Railways and Harbours 1952 to 1964
13 photographs and 3 letters documenting Satwant Singh Suman's service with the East African Railways.