Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

Scope and Contents Showing a group of musicians from the 'Symphonikat', a society formed in 1946 for the study and diffusion of musical knowledge among the population of Katanga. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'En mai 1946, à Elisabethville des indigènes évolués ont constitué un orchestre dénommé 'Symphonikat' (Orchestre Symphonique du Katanga). Cette société, don’t les autorités ont approuvé les statuts, a pour but l'étude, la pratique et la diffusion de la musique parmi les populations du...

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Showing Mangbetu carriers on a ferry. The caption below the photograph continues: 'Crossing over a ferry they at once started dancing. The Mangbetu are the happiest people in Africa'.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

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Showing three Africans standing on a track leading through grassland.

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135 x 85 mm. Showing three people with plates in their lips.

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130 x 95 mm. A view looking down from a hill.

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Showing three women and a child.

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Showing a man crouched under a parasol made from natural fibres.

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The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.

Scope and Contents Seventy-nine pages of newscuttings from 'The Beira News and East Coast Chronicle' concerning East Africa, particularly its industry and commerce. The principal topics are the maize market, Zambesi coalfields, the political and economic future of Rhodesia, including the role of the British South Africa Company in the region, Nyasaland tobacco, and the development of ports and railways, notably at Beira and in Rhodesia. Other countries featured in the scrapbook include the Belgian Congo,...

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Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.

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135 x 85 mm. Showing a line of huts in a village. It is not clear from the caption on this album page whether this particular image is from N'goma or Rwanda.

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85 x 130 mm. Showing a man holding a laden back pack made from bamboo. It is not clear from the caption on this album page whether this particular image is from N'goma or Rwanda.

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90 x 135 mm. Showing a man wearing a laden back pack made from bamboo. It is not clear from the caption on this album page whether this particular image is from N'goma or Rwanda.

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The caption to the right of the photograph reads: 'In the centre of the picture is Niapu himself (wearing a felt hat). He is just walking off into the forest to relieve nature. This called for quite a ceremony. His orchestra who were sitting about, began playing with great abandon, and the girls began singing his praises'.

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Niapu was a Mangbetu Sultani.

Scope and Contents The caption on the album page reads: 'Niapu's orchestra, was one of the best that I have ever heard. They played weird and frenzied music, which possessed unusual rythm [sic]. They have a great variety of drums and instruments.In the top right hand picture [Y304N/118] looking from right to left is - Edundu, the big drum. Next four Ebrundru's which are brass studded and slung from the shoulder in play; and then a few small dog shaped drums which they call nec-bo-bo. Behind...

Scope and Contents The caption on the album page reads: 'Niapu's orchestra, was one of the best that I have ever heard. They played weird and frenzied music, which possessed unusual rythm [sic]. They have a great variety of drums and instruments.In the top right hand picture [Y304N/118] looking from right to left is - Edundu, the big drum. Next four Ebrundru's which are brass studded and slung from the shoulder in play; and then a few small dog shaped drums which they call nec-bo-bo. Behind...

Scope and Contents The caption on the album page reads: 'Niapu's orchestra, was one of the best that I have ever heard. They played weird and frenzied music, which possessed unusual rythm [sic]. They have a great variety of drums and instruments.In the top right hand picture [Y304N/118] looking from right to left is - Edundu, the big drum. Next four Ebrundru's which are brass studded and slung from the shoulder in play; and then a few small dog shaped drums which they call nec-bo-bo. Behind...

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A collection of photographs, measuring 240 x 180 mm, probably by official photographers, of the air lift of Nigerian troops to the Congo as part of the United Nations force (ONUC). The first of these went in November 1960: those serving in Kivu Province, where Kindi is situated, were the 5th Battalion and the Field Squadron. Nigerian troops served in the Congo until 1964.

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Includes material on Universities in countries outside the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Includes material on Universities in countries outside the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.