| Title |
West Africa Committee |
| Reference |
SPRS 3/3 |
| Covering Dates |
1961–1973 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Papers of the committee on economic development of Ghana and Nigeria, of which ELS was a member, and which later became the West Africa Business Association. Includes detailed monthly reports on political and economic affairs in Ghana, with some reports also on Nigeria. |
| Index Terms |
| Ghana |
| Nigeria |
| Churchill/SPRS 3/3 contains: |
|
1
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Correspondence. Includes the committee constitution and rules, the annual report, correspondence and minutes of the executive committee, on subjects including: a row between ELS and General Sir Frank Simpson, adviser to the committee, over alleged statements made by Simpson while in Ghana to Ashanti Goldfields Corporation's Accra representative, particularly on Simpson's negative attitude to Ghana; attempts to press to Ghanaian Government on pension provision; the need for closer contact with local representatives in Africa.
1 file. |
1961–1962 |
|
2
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Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: Ghana's general position; internal affairs; external affairs; finance; economic affairs; food; agriculture; labour. Also includes a report on Nigeria's general position, its internal affairs, finance, general economic position, trade, oil industry, communications, general industry and labour relations.
1 file. |
1962–1963 |
|
3
|
Minutes and agendas. Minutes of the executive committee, including a memorandum on the West Africa Committee's budget, the annual report and minutes of the annual general meeting.
1 file. |
1964 |
|
4
|
Circulars. Quarterly reports on business in London.
1 file. |
1964 |
|
5
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General correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between ELS and the committee secretary, William Rolleston.
1 file. |
1964 |
|
6
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Reports on Ghana and Nigeria. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs; food and agriculture; Nigerian trade, oil, communications and industry; labour relations.
1 file. |
1964 |
|
7
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General correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between ELS and the committee secretary, William Rolleston.
1 file. |
1965 |
|
8
|
Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs; food and agriculture; labour relations.
1 file. |
1965 |
|
9
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General correspondence. Correspondence, with correspondents including Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Carlill, adviser to the committee.
1 file. |
1966 |
|
10
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Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs, including a dispute between Ghana and Guinea; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs, including trade, communications, industry, timber, mining and plantations; food and agriculture; labour relations.
1 file. |
1966 |
|
11
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General correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between ELS and the committee secretary, William Rolleston, and also with Sir Evelyn Hone, adviser to the committee, on the political situation in Nigeria.
1 file. |
1967 |
|
12
|
Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs, including trade, communications, industry, timber, mining and plantations; food and agriculture; labour relations.
1 file. |
1967 |
|
13
|
General correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between ELS and the committee secretary, William Rolleston, and also with Sir Evelyn Hone, adviser to the committee, on a meeting with the Nigerian economist Pius Okigbo.
1 file. |
1968 |
|
14
|
Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs, particularly relating to Sierra Leone; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs, including trade, communications, industry and timber; food and agriculture.
1 file. |
1968 |
|
15
|
General correspondence. Correspondence, mainly between ELS and the committee secretary, William Rolleston, also including draft points for the press on the case for supporting the Nigerian Government during the civil war.
1 file. |
1969 |
|
16
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Reports on Ghana. Monthly reports on subjects including: internal affairs, particularly the General Election; external affairs, particularly relating to Sierra Leone; finance; economic affairs, including trade, communications and timber; food and agriculture; labour relations.
1 file. |
1969 |
|
17
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General correspondence. Subjects include ELS's departure from the committee following Ashanti Goldfields Corporation's withdrawal and the proposed expansion of the committee to cover French-speaking countries in West Africa.
1 file. |
1970–1973 |
|
18
|
Reports on Ghana and Nigeria. Monthly reports on subjects including: external affairs, particularly relating to Guinea and Sierra Leone; internal affairs; finance; economic affairs, including trade, communications, the Nigerian oil business, industry, timber, mining and plantations; food and agriculture; labour relations. Also includes a list of companies on the committee.
1 file. |
1970–1973 |
|
19
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Circulars. Includes: quarterly reports on business in London; reports of visits by the committee's adviser, Sir Evelyn Hone and committee members to Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Nigeria; memoranda on subjects including the Ghanaian Government's participation in private enterprise, Nigerian staff issues and taxation on overseas income; text of an address by Hone on West Africa; the committee's accounts; text of an address by Alhaji Kolo, Nigerian High Commissioner, on Anglo-Nigerian commercial relations; draft booklet on the committee.
1 file. |
1972–1973 |
|
20
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Minutes. Minutes of the executive committee, also including the annual reports for 1970 and 1971.
1 file. |
1971–1973 |
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