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154 x 113 mm. Picture shows Professor D.V. Cowen, Constitutional Adviser to the Basutoland delegation.

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132 x 133 mm. Picture shows Chief Leabua Jonathan of the Basutoland National Council, one of the delegates.

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154 x 197 mm. This picture shows Mr. G.P. Ramoreboli (left), Member of the Legislative Council and Vice President of the Basutoland Congress Party; and Mr. C.N. Shum, Secretary of the delegation.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...

Scope and Contents 151 x 97 mm. The caption continues: 'The cow pats are dried and used for fuel, also to mix with clay for making their floors. It polishes up very well. There are very few trees in Basutoland [i.e. Lesotho]. This burning of dung is a serious problem in the country, for it should go back into the earth. 1950.' Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album...

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156 x 204 mm. Picture shows: Mr. Fred Lee, Britain’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, opening the conference.

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202 x 154 mm. Picture shows: Mr. Fred Lee (right), the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, welcoming Chief Leabua Jonathan, the Basutoland Prime Minister, on his arrival at Lancaster House for the conference.

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157 x 204 mm. Picture shows: Chief Leabua Jonathan (centre) Prime Minister of Basutoland, with Chief Mateta Majara (left), Minister of Chieftainship Affairs and Local Government, and Professor D.V. Cowen (right), Special Adviser to the Basutoland Government on Constitutional, Legal and Governmental matters, at the conference table.

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155 x 209 mm. Picture shows: Mr. Edwin Leanya, Marematlon Freedom Party and member of the Legislative Assembly, with Mr. Ntsu Mokhehle, Leader of the Basutoland Congress Party and a member of the Legislative Assembly, at the conference table.

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157 x 204 mm. Members of the Basutoland delegation seen at the conference table at the opening of the Basutoland Independence Conference at Lancaster House.

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154 x 108 mm. Showing a river scene with willows growng on the bank. Exact location unidentified.

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142 x 82 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing a group of native officers standing behind African women and children in a mountain village in Basutoland. In the early years of the century, hut tax was the main source of revenue in the territory.

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Kodachromes and Kodak Ready mounts arranged by processing number relating to the visit described above.

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166 x 108 mm. General view of circular stone houses with thatched roofs. The caption on the reverse reads 'From building round mud huts the Basuto are gradually learning the art of stone cutting and are learning to build their houses from the sand stones of their mountains'. The caption also outlines, at length, some of the measures then being used to improve the standard of living of people in Basutoland.

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[From the air].

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[From the air].

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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).

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97 x 121 mm. Showing a spur of sheer cliffs jutting out over the valley floor.

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205 x 155 mm. Showing an African Public Works Department bulldozer driver loading earth onto a lorry.

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96 x 121 mm. Showing an African standing with two horses in front of a cliff face. The caves themselves are not clearly visible in the photograph.

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207 x 154 mm. Showing a young girl carrying a metal bucket on her head with the thatched stone huts of the village beyond and mountains in the distance.

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205 x 157 mm. Showing a young shepherd herding cattle along a hill track in western Lesotho.

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96 x 120 mm. Showing a similar cliff face to that in the preceding print, with a shallow stream in the foreground.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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121 x 97 mm. Showing the Chief and his brother, mounted on horseback, with a retinue of followers riding behind.