Janus: Africa miscellanea

RCS/RCMS 113 contains:
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17	Letter from Edward Bovill to Lord Lugard
18	Description of the game of Toola or Warri
20	Bauchi vocabularies
21	West African collection of Francis Harper
22	Letters from Oliver Raymont in Nigeria
23	Nigeria's Independence elections
24	Mahdist and other religious revivals in Nigeria
25	West African collection of Thomas Dalrymple
26	Service with the Nigeria Regiment
27	Correspondence concerning James Carmichael Smith
28	Photograph of Gambia Governors
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Africa miscellanea

Title	Nigeria's Independence elections
Reference	RCMS 113/23 (former reference: MSS 43)
Creator	Smith, Harold, b 1927
Covering Dates	1993–2003
Extent and Medium	1 envelope; disk; Mixed scripts

Content and context

Harold Smith was born in Hulme, Manchester, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He was employed as a Labour Officer in Lagos, Nigeria, between 1955 and 1960. According to his account, he refused to participate in British attempts to rig the Independence elections, and his subsequent career was blighted.

Material relating to Nigeria and its Independence elections, 1955-1960, stored on 2 IBM disks, ASC II format, presumably recorded in 1993. There is also a CD-Rom, burned 17 April 2003, containing the data from the disks. These items are accompanied by seven pages of related correspondence, 1992-1993.

Presented by Mrs Carol Smith, wife of Harold Smith, 23 March 1993.

Further information

MSS Addenda, vol. I. Indexed

The original disks are kept at Rhodes House Library, Oxford.

Index Terms

Africa

Nigeria

Smith, Harold (b 1927)

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