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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The children are being taught as a first stage to write in the sand'.

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210 x 160 mm. Showing five boys lined up playing wind instruments.

Scope and Contents View of the pyramid-shaped cairn built to commemorate the opening of the first road built by voluntary labour in Udi Division.A typewritten caption (which is a duplicate of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'Cairn erected to commemorate the opening of the first road built by voluntary effort in Udi Division. It was built a few months before the opening of the Mass Literacy campaign which gave such a stimulus to Mass Education. It was because the people showed, by making...

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110 x 63 mm. A dark print, showing a tent and thatched huts at the camp at Okpanku.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Mr. A. Odita, District Clerk of Udi Division in Southern Nigeria, teaching a class in his spare time at the Mass Education Centre in Udi Town. Notice that this small class is composed entirely of women'.

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Showing a large group of labourers levelling a clearing. An annotation on the reverse reads 'See earlier Eke photos'.

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 Undated extracts from letters written to Raymont's parents and sisters. The letters do not cover any major events, but provide an insight into the life of a subaltern of the period. Raymont discusses his regimental duties, social life, sport and views on Nigeria and its people. The extracts appear to be from a longer account and are in two sections. The first batch of letters cover 22 June 1935 - 6 January 1937 (112 pages), and relate to when Raymont was stationed in Enugu and Ibadan,...

Scope and Contents A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Africans have a great desire to learn; in Southern Nigeria, with a population of about 9 millions, only some 276,000, children attend infant and primary schools and only a fraction of these can ever become really literate. Most of the population are entirely illiterate in both English and their own languages. In the Udi Division of South Eastern Nigeria,...

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Head and shoulders portrait of Mr. Odita, one of the volunteer teachers in the literacy scheme. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He has given much spare time to helping to organise mass education in the Division'.

Scope and Contents Showing the village hall under construction. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The most ambitious building project undertaken by any village was that at Ngwo Uno where the people undertook to build a large village hall. It could not be completed owing to the lack of roofing materials, so a room in one corner was roofed and used as a Sub-Dispensary'. The pencilled annotation differs slightly and has the additional phrase 'in Udi Division' appearing after the words 'by any ...

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Showing the single storey stone building under construction. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'It is proposed here to run a Producers' Co-op as well as a Consumers'. The pencilled annotation additionally contains 'This is a departure from previous shops [the rest of the sentence is illegible]'.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'All the men women and children turned out to clear this site. Car has come by a 2 mile road built by voluntary labour. In background: improved latrines, machinery shed, co-op shop under construction. In foreground: foundations of village reading room'. The pencilled annotation has the following additional information 'this road goes another 12 miles to Obinofia Ndiagu (an offshoot of Obinofia [sic]'.

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A view looking along the river, with thick forest on either bank.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The one on the left is a native doctor, the other is a farmer and trader'.

Scope and Contents Showing a youth writing on a blackboard with the date 21/8/45. A typewritten caption (which duplicates most of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'During the war literacy pupils sent letters to their soldier relatives abroad. Those who could copy but not compose a letter used to copy as an exercise a letter giving the Udi Village news'. The annotation continues 'Thus each batch of letters would contain about 40 that were all the same but as each went to a different soldier that...

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A single storey stone building with corrugated-iron roof.

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Showing a row of women at a table in the open air receiving instruction. A typewritten caption (which duplicates most of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'This is the 'top' class for women - normally 12. These are wives of miners at Enugu and of N.A. [Native Administration] employees'. The annotation continues 'Note these women are well dressed'.

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102 x 59 mm. A view looking along the river, with Africans swimming in the foreground.

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Showing a group of adults at an open-air literacy class.