Diplomatic & State Papers: Africa

Documents, dispatches, reports, telegrams and handwritten embassy notes both from South Africa and from Britain, the United States and other powers provide first-hand analyses of South Africa's relationship with the international community.

British diplomatic correspondence, letters, reports, etc. Begins with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa.

Documents related to U.S. consular activities. Highlights include the beginning of an anti-colonial movement and problems along the Moroccan-Algerian border.

Documents on the activities of the German colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Documents related to U.S. consular activities. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Documents related to U.S. consular activities. Highlights include the beginning of an anti-colonial movement and the industrialization and economic exploitation of Portugal's African colonies.

Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles.