Kakamega Gold Field

Title

Kakamega Gold Field

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 77

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-312: Correspondence concerning the threat to indigenous rights posed by the discovery of several gold-reefs in the Kavirondo Reserve in West Kakamega, with manuscript notes by Lugard on the related papers, 1932-1933. Correspondents and providers of information include the Church Missionary Society, Sir Robert Hamilton, William MacGregor Ross, Archdeacon Owen, J.H. Oldham, H.D. Hooper, W.A. Pitt Pitts, Reverend T.F.C. Bewes of the Kenya Missionary Council, Hildegarde Hinde, Sir James Byrne, Sir William Morris Carter, Cosmo Lang (Archbishop of Canterbury), Alan Don (his secretary), Malcolm MacDonald, Herbert Samuel, Sir John Harris, Sir Humphry Leggett, L.S.B. Leakey, Sir Drummond Shiels, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Freda White of the League of Nations Union and R.B. Paul of the West African Review.

File 2, fols. 1-23: Correspondence with J.H. Oldham, J.A. Cable, Sir Robert Hamilton, Malcolm MacDonald, D. Kinson and William MacGregor Ross about Lugard's letter of 4 January to The Times about the situation over the goldfield and indigenous rights, 1933.

File 3, fols. 1-25: Lugard's draft speech for the House of Lords debate in February, notes on the debate, notes on a paper by McGeagh and on a Colonial Office Paper, with a sketch map of the area, 1933.

File 4, fols. 1-165: Cuttings from newspapers, journals and Hansard about the Kakamega goldfield and mining in Kenya in general, 1928-1942.

File 5, fols. 1-3: Three sketch maps of the area, one by William MacGregor Ross, n.d.

Date

1928-1942

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box