Colonial states and African societies: Kenya
Kenya
Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics
Nic Cheeseman (ed.), Karuti Kanyinga (ed.), Gabrielle Lynch (ed.)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13490387
Kenya under colonial rule, in government reports, 1907-1964
East Ardsley, Wakefield, United Kingdom : Microform Academic Publishers, [2016-]
Contents are digitized annual reports of the colonial government.
Administration, 1924-1963
Finance, 1910-1964
Police and judicial, 1918-1963
Natural resources, 1907-1964
Social services, 1920-1964
Transport and public works, 1910-1964
Communications and post office savings, 1910-1963
Commerce, 1917-1963
Corporations and board, 1950-1964
Miscellaneous, 1907-1964
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13948871
Kenya National Archives
Microfilm records are available from
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=search&q=kenya+national+archives
and the
Center for Research Libraries
http://catalog.crl.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=kenya%20national%20archives&searchscope=1
The CRL microfilm is more complete for some sections than Hoover's copy.
Guides to the Microfilm
Syracuse University has put the guides online. https://researchguides.library.syr.edu/kenyanarch
Printed guide to the microfilm below.
A guide to the Kenya National Archives : to the microfilms of the provincial and district annual reports, record books, and handing-over reports, miscellaneous correspondence, and intelligence reports
by Robert G. Gregory, Robert M. Maxon, and Leon P. Spencer.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Program of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University, 1968, c1969.
xvi, 452 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: Syracuse University Eastern African bibliographical series no. 3
If you use Hoover's microfilm,
you will need the Reel Guide in the back of the book.
Hoover copy
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/628250
Green Library copy of guide
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2036118
Kenya National Archives Microfilm in Hoover Library
Annual reports, 1904-1963 [microform].
Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
63 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1915743
Handing over reports, 1910-1963 [microform].
Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1915735
Intelligence reports, 1921-1951 [microform].
Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
12 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1915744
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1894-1961 [microform]
Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
10 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1915745
Provincial and district record books, 1902-1958 [microform].
Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
18 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Hoover Library
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1915734
Kenya Gazettes 1899-1919 online in
Colonial Law in Africa
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13948866
Nairobi Libraries Archive - Book Bunk
Has issues of the Kenya Gazette online. Information dates from 1903 to 1961. Holdings of the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi. https://www.nrblibraries-archive.org/
LLMC Digital Library
Hilary Ng'weno Archive. East African magazines, newspapers, & films : the Hilary Ng'weno Archive
[Washington, D.C.] : Coherent Digital.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000129007
Contents:
The Weekly Review, 1975-1999 --
The Nairobi Times, 1977-1983 --
Rainbow children's magazine, 1976-1995 --
Making of a Nation documentaries and oral histories. Also called Kenyan Heritage Video Series.
Contents include films such as “50 Years of Independence,” “Mzee Kenyatta’s First Cabinet,” “The Constitutional Road to Independence,” and “Tom Mboya Student Airlifts.”
[The Ng'weno Archive has a selection of historical films created by Hilary Ng'weno. To see a larger group of films on DVD, look in Searchworks for kenya heritage series There are profiles of Moody Awori, Joseph Kariuki, Wangari Maathai, Kenneth Matiba, Tom Mboya, Kitili Mwendwa, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Oginga Odinga, Bethwell Ogot. ]
Syracuse University. Kenya National Archives Microfilm
Syracuse has a very large collection of archival documents on microfilm. https://researchguides.library.syr.edu/kenyanarch
- some are also held by Stanford
- some are held by the Center for Research Libraries and can be borrowed by Stanford users
- some are only held in the U.S. by Syracuse
- Syracuse loans some items, but there are some they do not loan
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One of the finding aids for Syracuse holdings is -
- Microfilms relating to Eastern Africa : a guide to recent acquisitions of Syracuse University. Part III (Kenya and Miscellaneous). By David L. Easterbrook, Alan Solomon, Thomas Taylor. 1975. 112 pages
- [Syracuse, N.Y.] Program of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University
- Occasional bibliography (Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Program of Eastern African Studies. Bibliographic Section) ; no. 27.
This is one of the Syracuse University guides. It lists holdings at Syracuse of Kenya special collections (including of Kenyan South Asians) and newspapers.
University of Nairobi Research Archive
Has full text colonial era documents, books, theses and dissertations, reports, and more recent documents. http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/
Museum of British Colonialism
Narratives of British colonial rule in Kenya. Interviews with Mau Mau veterans and survivors of the Emergency period in Kenya. Fieldwork videos relating events during the Mau Mau Emergency. Map of the detention camps. Documentary about the British destruction of records of their activities. Founded 2018. https://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/
Kenya Primary Sources from Adam Matthew Digital
[in chronological order]
Ethiopian frontiers of Somaliland and Kenya 1934 [2012]
CO 879/132
Department/Office: Colonial Office
Collection: Confidential Print: Africa
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2012.
1 online resource
15 p.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12330072
Kenya military report 1939
WO 287/137
U.K. Confidential Print: Africa
Department/Office: War Office
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2012.
1 online resource
140 p.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12329940
Mentions the railway, discusses whether the population is war ready.
Political relations: Kenya 1966
FO 371/187002
U.K. Foreign Office Files for China, 1957-1966
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2010.
1 online resource
12 p.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12342455
Kenya - China relations during the Cold War. Mentions Jomo Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga, Hastings Banda.
Political affairs bilateral: Kenya 1967
FCO 21/74
U.K. Foreign Office Files for China, 1967-1980
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2010.
1 online resource
61 pages
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12343875
Mentions Patrice Lumumba, Mao Zedong, Daniel arap Moi.
Formosa (Taiwan): Relations with Kenya 1969
FCO 21/524
Department/Offic: Foreign Office
U.K.Foreign Office Files for China, 1967-1980
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2010.
1 online resource
3 p
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12344110
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