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Colin Legum's Writings from the 1940s to the 1980s

Collection: Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995    Volumes    Colin Legum's Writings from the 1940s to the 1980s
These writings are split into documents according to the georaphical location of their focus. Three core themes emerge from these texts, the first is of African countries' often bloody journey from colonial rule to independence. Legum also focusses on South Africa far more than other countries, with content on this country being spread across boxes 2. 3 and 8. The third theme of these texts is of polticial influences including negotiations with Communist states; alongside the influence of Socialism upon Ghana and discussion of Socialism's possible implications for the Commonwealth.
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Writings Box 9 - Miscellaneous

These items include a report from the Accra Conference of African States 1958, reports and articles on Nationalist Movements and Pan Africanism, a report on Pan-Africanism and Communism written in...

Date:1958-1975
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-09

Writings Box 8 - Britain, Commonwealth, Malta, Portugal

These writings include a lecture on the subject of 'Britain's Place in The World', notes from an Anti Apartheid Meeting at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool on Sept 30th...

Date:1956-1974
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-08

Writings Box 7 - Middle East, Aden, Egypt, Liberia, Sudan

The report on the Middle East includes commentary on difficulties that dictators in Middle Eastern countries are facing in their negotiations with the Soviet Union and its bureaucracy. Content on...

Date:1956-1973
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-07

Writings Box 6 - Southern African Countries and Guinea-Bissau

Alongside extracts from the 1971 Encyclopedia Britannica relating to Botswana and Lesotho, is an article by Legum expressing his concerns that giving Basutoland, Swaziland, and Bechuanaland their independence in 1966,...

Date:1966-1980
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-06

Writings Box 5 - East Africa

Articles within this grouping include articles on Uganda as a first a Single Party state, then an unstable autocracy, before a coup and a new administration under President Obote. Other...

Date:1963-1985
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-05

Writings Box 4 - West Africa

This collection of predominantly typescript papers cover Angola, Cameroon, Central Africa, The Congo, Ghana, Nigeria; the content on Angola consists chiefly of a article by Legum titled 'A Letter on...

Date:1961-1976
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-04

Writings Box 3 - South Africa

These writings by Legum include a 1960 publication written whilst the South African Government placed increasing restrictions on its own people, and after the Sharpeville shooting of striking black workers...

Date:1956-1982
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-03

Writings Box 2 - Southern Africa

This box contains typescript and printed papers, with the exception of the manuscript notes made by Legum on the issue of sanctions against Rhodesia. The core themes emerging from these...

Date:1966-1981
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Ee-02
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