West Africa: Nigeria, 1952-1972

File

MSS. Afr. s. 1681/304

Held at the Weston Library

Contains:

folder 1 (fols. 1-11, item 1 only) letters from A.S. Coker to Michael Scott with papers concerning the appeal to the Privy Council from the West African Court of Appeal brought by John Adebayo, 1952-1954
folder 2 (fols. 1-44) Northern Nigeria, information on population, education, local government, and staff appointments, 1953-1954
folder 3 (fols. 1-60) correspondence on Northern Nigeria, 1954-1968
folder 4 (item 1 only) Eastern Nigeria, press release on the budget debate, 1954
folder 5 (fols. 1-23) correspondence and Bureau policy statements on the Biafra war, with newspaper cuttings, 1969-1970
folder 6 (fols. 1-7, items 1-19) background material, arranged by Michael Christie and described on pp. 9-10 of his catalogue, 1954-1962
folder 7 (fols. 1-24, items 1 and 2) background material, 1960-1972.