Inventory of the George Loft Papers

Box/Folder 1

Correspondence, 1957-1998.

Scope and Content Note

Letters to and from African nationalist and governmental leaders, British colonial officials, American diplomats and aid workers, and officials within the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Service Council, London. Largely consists of typed notes describing meetings with individuals as well as correspondence with individuals, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, followed by a smaller group of chronological correspondence files between Loft and the American Friends Service Committee headquarters in Philadelphia

Box/Folder 1 : 1

General. Detainees, 1959-1960

Alphabetical

Box/Folder 1 : 2

A, 1958-1960

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African National Congress, 1958

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Alderson, Cecil, 1957-1958

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Armitage, Sir Robert, 1959-1960

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Ashton, Hugh, 1957-1966

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B, 1958-1966

Box/Folder 1 : 8

Banda, Aleke, 1959-1966

Banda, Hastings K.

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Correspondence with, 1958-1965

Box/Folder 1 : 10

Correspondence about, 1959-1963

Box/Folder 1 : 11

Memoranda of meetings with, 1958-1960

Box/Folder 1 : 12

Barton, Frank, 1957

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Benson, Sir Arthur, 1958-1959

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Bernard, Rev. Neil, 1958-1959

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Birmingham, Walter, 1958-1959

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Booth, Rev. Alan, 1962-1964

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Bottomley, Arthur G., 1964

Box/Folder 1 : 18

Brownrigg, Philip, 1969

Box/Folder 1 : 19

Bwanausi, Augustine, 1959-1966

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C, 1958-1965

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Cadbury Trust, 1974-1980

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Callaghan, James, 1959-1964

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Cameron, Colin, 1962-1965

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Campbell, Sir Jock, 1962-1965

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Chakuamba, Steve-George, 1958-1962

Box/Folder 1 : 26

Chakulya, Wilson, 1959-1960

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Chibambo, MacKinley, 1959

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Chikerema, Robert, 1959-1964

Box/Folder 1 : 29

Chinamano, Josiah, 1959-1976

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Chipembere, Henry B. M., 1959-1972

Box/Folder 1 : 31

Chirwa, Orton, 1960-1966

Box/Folder 1 : 32

Chisiza, Dunduza, 1959-1962

Box/Folder 1 : 33

Chisiza, Yatuta, 1959-1964

Box/Folder 1 : 34

Chitambala, Frank, 1959-1964

Box/Folder 1 : 35

Chitepo, Herbert, 1957-1962

Box/Folder 1 : 36

Chiume, M. W. K., 1958-1963

Box/Folder 2 : 1

Chokani, Willie, 1959-1998

Box/Folder 2 : 2

Chona, Mainza, 1964-1965

Box/Folder 2 : 3

Clark, Kendall, 1958-1959

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Clutton-Brock, Guy, 1958-1966

Box/Folder 2 : 5

Cole, David, 1957-1958

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D, 1958-1960

Box/Folder 2 : 7

De Bunsen, Bernard, 1959-1960

Box/Folder 2 : 8

Dumbutshena, Enoch, 1958-1969

Box/Folder 2 : 9

E, 1960-1979

Box/Folder 2 : 10

Evangelische Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe, e.V. (Bonn, W. Germany), 1975-1980

Box/Folder 2 : 11

F, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 2 : 12

Field, Winston, 1962-1964

Box/Folder 2 : 13

Finn, H. R., 1958-1959

Box/Folder 2 : 14

Foot, Sir Hugh, 1962-1969

Box/Folder 2 : 15

G, 1957-1966

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Garley, David, 1958-1960

Box/Folder 2 : 17

Gereta-Chirwa, D. S., 1959-1960

Box/Folder 2 : 18

Gondwe, Vincent, 1958-1965

Box/Folder 2 : 19

Greaves, Bruce, 1959

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Gwandzura, Zechariah, 1959

Box/Folder 2 : 21

H, 1957-1966

Box/Folder 2 : 22

Hadsel, Fred, 1958-1959

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Harding, John, 1974

Box/Folder 2 : 24

Henson, Roy, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 2 : 25

Hodgson, G. C. D., 1958-1959

Box/Folder 2 : 26

Hone, Sir Evelyn, 1959-1963

Box/Folder 2 : 27

Hooper, Mary-Louise, 1959

Box/Folder 2 : 28

Houser, George, 1959-1960

Howard, Philip

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1958-1960

Box/Folder 2 : 30

1963-1966

Box/Folder 2 : 31

1967-1974

Box/Folder 2 : 32

1975-1986

Box/Folder 3 : 1

I, 1958-1959

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Interchurch Coordination Committee for Development Projects (Netherlands), 1974-1979

Box/Folder 3 : 3

J, 1959-1960

Box/Folder 3 : 4

Jere, Harrington, 1983-1987

Box/Folder 3 : 5

Jones, Sir Glyn, 1960-1965

Box/Folder 3 : 6

K, 1957-1970

Box/Folder 3 : 7

Kalulu, Solomon, 1962-1975

Box/Folder 3 : 8

Kamanga, Reuben, 1963-1964

Box/Folder 3 : 9

Kamba, Walter, 1978-1980

Box/Folder 3 : 10

Kapwepwe, Simon, 1964-1965

Kaunda, Kenneth

Box/Folder 3 : 11

1959

Box/Folder 3 : 12

1960-1962

Box/Folder 3 : 13

1963

Box/Folder 3 : 14

1964

Box/Folder 3 : 15

1965

Box/Folder 3 : 16

1966-1967

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1974-1979

Box/Folder 3 : 18

1980-1989

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Kumtumanji, Gabriel, 1959

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L, 1957-1960

Box/Folder 3 : 21

Laycock, Handley, 1958

Box/Folder 3 : 22

Lewis, Mark, 1957-1958

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M, 1957-1975

Box/Folder 3 : 24

Mackay, Peter, 1962-1973

Box/Folder 3 : 25

Macleod, Iain, 1960-1965

Box/Folder 3 : 26

Madavo, Crispin, 1975

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Madzimbamuto, Daniel, 1959-1969

Box/Folder 3 : 28

Makata, Lawrence, 1959

Box/Folder 3 : 29

Makulu, Henry, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 3 : 30

Maluleke, Josias, 1960

Box/Folder 3 : 31

Masemola, Nathaniel, 1976

Box/Folder 3 : 32

Matthews, Peter, 1957-1958

Box/Folder 3 : 33

Mawema, Michael, 1967-1976

Box/Folder 3 : 34

Mbekiani, Jasper, 1959

Box/Folder 3 : 35

Mbekiani, Wales (Nyemba), 1959-1964

Box/Folder 4 : 1

Mboya, Tom, 1957-1960

Box/Folder 4 : 2

McAdam, Albert, 1963

Box/Folder 4 : 3

Meier, Rhys, 1958-1966

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Mew, Ken, 1978

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Micklem, Lorna, 1959

Box/Folder 4 : 6

Mkandawire, Chiza, 1959

Box/Folder 4 : 7

Mnthambala, Augustine, 1958-1988

Box/Folder 4 : 8

Moffat, Sir John, 1959-1964

Box/Folder 4 : 9

Morris, Colin, 1958-1969

Box/Folder 4 : 10

Mpofu, Alfred, 1959

Box/Folder 4 : 11

Msika, Joseph, 1959-1980

Box/Folder 4 : 12

Msonthi, John, 1959-1966

Box/Folder 4 : 13

Mtandwa, Peter, 1960-1974

Box/Folder 4 : 14

Mugabe, Robert and Sally, 1967-1980

Box/Folder 4 : 15

Muhsin, Ali, 1959-1963

Box/Folder 4 : 16

Mulikita, Fwanyanga, 1971

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Mundia, Nalumino, 1964-1981

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Murphy, Richard, 1957-1974

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Murray-Parker, May, 1960

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Mushonga, Paul and Evelin, 1959

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Musukwa, A. S., 1959

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Mutasa, Didymus, 1958-1973

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Muvuti, Benjamin, 1972

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Muzorewa, Bishop Abel T., 1976

Box/Folder 4 : 25

Mwale, Siteke, 1975-1976

Box/Folder 4 : 26

Mwanakatwe, John, 1964-1965

Box/Folder 4 : 27

N-O, 1957-1978

Box/Folder 4 : 28

Newhati, Francis, 1959

Box/Folder 4 : 29

Nixon, Richard M., 1960

Box/Folder 4 : 30

Nkomo, Joshua, 1959-1980

Box/Folder 4 : 31

Noak, Hans, 1957-1959

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NORAD (Norwegian Aid), 1975-1980

Box/Folder 4 : 33

NOVIB Foundation (Netherlands), 1974

Box/Folder 4 : 34

Nyandoro, George, 1959-1979

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Nyerere, Julius, 1959-1960

Box/Folder 4 : 36

Nyimba, Opperson, 1958

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Ostrander, Taylor, 1959

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P, 1957-1976

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Padmore, George, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 4 : 40

Palley, Ahrn, 1962-1966

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Palmer, Joseph, 1958-1969

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Paradis, Ronald, 1960

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Pardey, H. G., 1958

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Parry, Hugh, 1959-1963

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Paton, Alan, 1962-1967

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Pifer, Alan, 1957

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Potter, Philip, 1959

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Prain, Sir Ronald, 1957-1969

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Pretorius, J. L., 1959-1965

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R, 1957-1960

Box/Folder 4 : 51

Radley, Philip, 1958-1959

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Rao, P. J., 1958

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Rennie, Sir Gilbert, 1959-1960

Box/Folder 5 : 2

Rhodes, Willard, 1958

Box/Folder 5 : 3

Rubadiri, David and Gertrude, 1963-1998

Box/Folder 5 : 4

S, 1957-1984

Box/Folder 5 : 5

Senn, G. C., 1959-1980

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Shamuyarira, Nathan, 1962-1979

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SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority), 1975-1981

Box/Folder 5 : 8

Silundika, George, 1980

Box/Folder 5 : 9

Sipalo, Munukayumbwa, 1964

Box/Folder 5 : 10

Sithole, Edson, 1959

Box/Folder 5 : 11

Sithole, Rev. Ndabaningi, 1960-1966

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Sjöman, Vilgot, 1958

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Smith, George-Ivan, 1974-1975

Box/Folder 5 : 14

Smith, Leslie, 1959-1960

Box/Folder 5 : 15

Smyly, David and Veronica, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 5 : 16

Sonjo, A. Machila, 1959-1960

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Spivey, Ronald, 1959

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Steere, Loyd V., 1957-1959

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Stephens, Christopher and Alice, 1959

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Stewart, Joyce, 1958-1959

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Swart, Edward, 1958-1959

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T, 1957-1960

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Takawira, Leopold, 1962-1970

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Tatum, Lyle, 1962-1963

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Temple, Merfyn, 1957-1965

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Thompson, Jack, 1957-1960

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Thorne, F. T., 1958

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Todd, Garfield, 1959-1988

Box/Folder 5 : 29

Tredgold, Barbara, 1958-1985

Box/Folder 6 : 1

Tredgold, Sir Robert, 1962-1977

Box/Folder 6 : 2

Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, 1957

Box/Folder 6 : 3

V, 1958-1960

Box/Folder 6 : 4

Van der Merwe, Hendrik, 1984-1987

Box/Folder 6 : 5

Van Wyk, Fred J., 1979

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Vernon-Jackson, Hugh, 1975

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W, 1957-1979

Box/Folder 6 : 8

Welensky, Sir Roy, 1960

Box/Folder 6 : 9

Whitehead, Sir Edgar, 1958-1959

Box/Folder 6 : 10

Wilson, Anthony E., 1971-1977

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Wilson, Roger, 1959

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Wina, Arthur, 1964-1965

Box/Folder 6 : 13

Wina, Sikota, 1964

Box/Folder 6 : 14

Y, 1958

Box/Folder 6 : 15

Zvogbo, Eddison, 1973-1980

Chronological

George Loft to AFSC Headquarters, Philadelphia

Box/Folder 6 : 16

1957

1958

Box/Folder 6 : 17

January-May

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June-December

1959

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January-May

Box/Folder 6 : 20

July-December

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1960

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AFSC Headquarters, Philadelphia, to George Loft, 1957-1960

Box/Folder 7

Subject File, 1958-1980.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, news clippings, pamphlets, government publications, minutes of meetings, and press releases, which primarily document American Friends Service Committee projects and initiatives related to Africa, and especially in the countries of Malawi, Mali, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Arranged alphabetically by name of country

General

Box/Folder 7 : 1

All-African People's Conference, Accra, Ghana, 1958

Fundraising trips to Europe and Africa, for AFSC sponsored projects

Box/Folder 7 : 2

1969 September

Box/Folder 7 : 3

1974 September-October

Box/Folder 7 : 4

1975 September-November

Box/Folder 7 : 5

South Africa / Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, trip report, George Loft and Louis Schneider, 1958

Box/Folder 7 : 6

Southern Africa reports from George Loft, 1958-1960

Malawi

Box/Folder 7 : 7

Cabinet crisis, 1964

U.N. Development Program, special mission (1966)

Box/Folder 7 : 8

Background information, 1966-1967

Box/Folder 7 : 9

Correspondence, 1966-1967

Box/Folder 7 : 10

Itinerary and contacts list, 1966

Reports

Box/Folder 7 : 11

George Loft, 1966

Box/Folder 7 : 12

International Labor Organization, 1966

Box/Folder 7 : 13

United Nations Development Program, 1965-1966

Box/Folder 7 : 14

Government offices directory, 1974

Mali

Box/Folder 7 : 15

Drought relief project, 1974

Box/Folder 7 : 16

Drought relief project, 1975

Box/Folder 7 : 17

Photographs, relief projects, circa 1977

Box/Folder 8

Zambia / AFSC housing projects

Box/Folder 8 : 1

Agreements with the Zambian government, 1967-1968

Box/Folder 8 : 2

Contact lists, 1967-1968

Correspondence

Box/Folder 8 : 3

General, 1967-1974

Bard McAllister, AFSC Zambia Field Director

Box/Folder 8 : 4

1967

Box/Folder 8 : 5

1968

Box/Folder 8 : 6

1969

Box/Folder 8 : 7

1971

Henry Passmore, AFSC Headquarters

Box/Folder 8 : 8

1967

Box/Folder 8 : 9

1968

Box/Folder 8 : 10

1969

Box/Folder 8 : 11

1970

Box/Folder 8 : 12

1971

Zambian government

Box/Folder 8 : 13

General, 1967-1970

Box/Folder 8 : 14

President Kenneth Kaunda, 1967-1970

George Loft visits

Box/Folder 8 : 15

1967

1969

Box/Folder 8 : 16

Correspondence and news reports, 1969

Box/Folder 8 : 17

News clippings and background information, 1969

1971

Background information

Box/Folder 8 : 18

General, 1968-1971

Box/Folder 8 : 19

Kafue Housing Project, 1967-1971

Correspondence

Box/Folder 8 : 20

Contacts in Geneva, 1971

Box/Folder 8 : 21

Contacts in Zambia, 1971

Box/Folder 8 : 22

Other aid and development agencies, 1971

Box/Folder 8 : 23

Miscellany, 1971

Box/Folder 9 : 1

1975

Box/Folder 9 : 2

Photographs, 1969-1977

Box/Folder 9 : 3

Publicity, 1970-1978

Reports

Box/Folder 9 : 4

"A View of the Kafue Squatter," 1970

Box/Folder 9 : 5

"Chawama Self-Help Housing Project," 1975

Zimbabwe-Rhodesia

George and Eleanor Loft mission (September-October 1972)

Background material

Box/Folder 9 : 6

Abel Muzorewa, pamphlets, 1972

Government publications, Rhodesia

Box/Folder 9 : 7

"Anglo-Rhodesian Relations," 1971

Box/Folder 9 : 8

"Constitution," 1969

Box/Folder 9 : 9

"Economic Survey of Rhodesia," 1972

Box/Folder 9 : 10

Government publications, United Kingdom, Pearce Commission Report, 1972

Box/Folder 9 : 11

Justice for Rhodesia campaign, 1972

Box/Folder 9 : 12

Miscellany, 1969-1972

Report, 1972

Box/Folder 9 : 13

Part I

Box/Folder 9 : 14

Part II

Box/Folder 10

Rhodesia Conference, Geneva (October-December 1976)

Box/Folder 10 : 1

Background material, 1976-1977

Correspondence

Box/Folder 10 : 2

Conference participants, 1976-1977

Friends Service Council, London

Box/Folder 10 : 3

Walter Martin, 1976-1977

Box/Folder 10 : 4

Others, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 5

Trevor Jepson, 1976-1977

Box/Folder 10 : 6

Kenneth Kaunda, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 7

Others, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 8

Meeting minutes, Friends Service Council, London, Ad Hoc Group on Quaker Presence at Geneva Talks, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 9

Meeting notes (George Loft, Trevor Jepson, Lyle Tatum), 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 10-11

Press clippings, 1976

Press releases and position papers

Box/Folder 10 : 12

African National Council, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 13

Zimbabwe African National Union, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 14

Other parties, 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 15

Weekly reports (George Loft, Trevor Jepson), 1976

Box/Folder 10 : 16

Friends Service Council / Quaker Peace and Service, London, 1978-1980

Box/Folder 10 : 17

London Conference (1979)

Freedom House--Election monitoring (1979)

Box/Folder 10 : 18

Correspondence and press clippings, 1979

Box/Folder 10 : 19

Report, 1979

News clippings

Box/Folder 10 : 20

1969

Box/Folder 10 : 21

1974

Box/Folder 10 : 22

1976-1977

Box/Folder 10 : 23

1978-1980

Box/Folder 11

Photographs, 1958-1979.

Scope and Content Note

Although there are a few photographic prints, the bulk of this series are color 35mm slides taken by Loft and documenting his work in southern Africa from 1958 to 1964, as well as the three All-African Conferences held between 1958 and 1961 in Accra, Tunis, and Cairo. Also included are photographs from trips during this period to Nigeria, Congo, Tanzania, and Senegal, as well as development projects in Mali and Zambia during the 1970s. Arranged by format, prints and slides, with slides arranged in groups A-L, representing events or subjects

Box/Folder 11 : 1

Prints.

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous African leaders (Henry Chipembere, Kenneth Kaunda, Eduardo Mondland, Holden Roberto)

Box/Folder 11 : 2

35mm slides, taken by George Loft, 1958-1979

List of individual slides, arranged by group

Group A: Third All-African People's Conference, Cairo, Egypt, March 1961

Group B: Second All-African People's Conference, Tunis, Tunisia, January 1960

Group C: First All-African People's Conference, Accra, Ghana, December 1958

Group D: Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1959-1964

Group E: Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, 1957-1964

Group F: Nyasaland / Malawi, 1957-1964

Group G: First International Congress of Africanists, Accra, Ghana, December 1962

Group H: Dakar Colloquium on African Economic Development and Ways of Socialism, Dakar, Senegal, December 1962

Group I: Field trip for American Friends Service Committee to Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), Congo Republic, Nigeria, April-May 1961

Group J: Belgian Congo trips, Elizabethville (1957), Leopoldville (1958)

Group K: Mission to Mali, American Friends Service Committee resettlement scheme for Sahel nomads; women's work projects, March 1979

Group L: Lusaka, Zambia, October 1974 and October 1975, Self-help urban squatter upgrading scheme at John Howard Compound, led by American Friends Service Committee

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