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The Development Of The Eastern Africa Collection At Syracuse University, Robert G. Gregory

The Courier

With the inauguration of an African studies program in 1962, Syracuse University began the development of a unique collection of records relating to the eastern side of Africa. The most important part of the collection, the core, is related to Kenya, but there are also valuable records on the other countries of eastern Africa, nine in all, extending from Ethiopia to South Africa. Most of the items in this collection are on microfilm—an extraordinary holding of nearly four thousand reels of official and private records—but there is also much of value in supplementary books, periodicals, and documents in their original …

Guide To Daily Correspondence Of The Coast, Rift Valley, Central And Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - Former Departments, Centers, Institutes and Projects

The daily correspondence of the provincial and district officers of the East Africa Protectorate and Kenya Colony were microfilmed during the 1960s as part of a cooperative project between the Kenya National Archives and Syracuse University. … This guide was prepared at Syracuse University during 1982-84 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is an index to the follow collections of daily correspondence:

Cost Province, 2nd series, 1894-1965: 150 reels

Central Province, 1888-1964: 71 reels (1-40, 61-91)

Rift Valley Province, 1894-1959: 61 reels

Northeastern Province, 1909-63: 46 reels

A Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Books

The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Microfilm number: 2807.