African historical data [other than Kenya], 1957-1968

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Comprises:

(item 1) - Genocide in Nigeria [regarding the Nigerian 'Civil war'], with footnotes (15 pp.).
(item 2) - Maps and dates of Africa (2 fols).
(item 3) - notes regarding African states (status, area, populations, capital).
(item 4) - 'The Arab role in Africa', by Elspeth Huxley (14 pp.).
(item 5) - BOAC [British Overseas Airways Corporation] story in East Africa: two historical articles from 1957 and 1960 about the early Imperial Airways service to East Africa and Empire flying boat service, sent to Elspeth Huxley, 17 Sep 1965, (7 fols.).
(item 6) - The federal prime minister [Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]'s speech on the occasion of Nigeria's Independence on 1 Oct 1961 (1 fol.).
(item 7) - Memo from Belgium: Rwanda and Burundi in 1962; No.17, May 1962 (24 pp., with 8 black and white photographs).
(item 8) - Memo from Belgium: Ruanda – Urundi (1918–1962), a Belgian solution to the decolonisation problem, nos.23-24, Nov-Dec 1962 (60 pp., with 11 black and white photographs).
(item 9) - Map of Africa, showing partnership with Africa, from Problèmes Africaines, No.171, 7 Mar, 1963 (1 fol).
(item 10) - 4 maps concerning: diplomatic and cultural relations; economic and technical relations; diplomatic and cultural activities of China and other Asian States; and economic and technical relations China and other Asian States of the Soviet Bloc and Albania to end of June, 1963.
(item 11) - Map, 'The new states at a glance', designed and printed by the New Nigerian, c.1963.
(item 12) - Political background in Zanzibar, Jan 1964 (4 pp.).
(item 13) - '[Jomo] Kenyatta: From Prisoner to President', in Life International, vol.41, no.5, 5 Sep 1966, pp.6-17.
(item 14) - South Africa: Information and analysis; special analysis, by Balthazar Johannes Vorster (The South African Enigma), May 1967 (6pp.).
(item 15) - Transition, vol.7 (v), no.36, 1968 (64 pp.), published in Kampala, Uganda [mainly about the Nigerian crisis].