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19. Seretse returns to Serowe to a rapturous welcome in October 1956, as joyful crowds surge round him crying
Pula
! – ‘Rain!'.

20. ‘The New Africa'. Dr Hastings Banda of Nyasaland (Malawi) is released from prison by Harold Macmillan in 1960, as British colonies throughout Africa demand their independence.

21. Campaigning in Bechuanaland, 1965. Seretse Khama's political party won an overwhelming victory, making him President of newly independent Botswana the following year.

22. Seretse and Ruth Khama, Botswana. ‘I thank God,' said Ruth, ‘that I picked Seretse to be my man for life.'

List of Abbreviations used in Notes

ANC

African National Congress

BCA

Balliol College Archive

BECM

British Empire and Commonwealth Museum

BLCAS

Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies

BNARS

Botswana National Archives and Records Services

BP

Bechuanaland Protectorate

CAN:CER

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada)

CHUR

Churchill Archives Centre

CRO

Commonwealth Relations Office

CROUW

Central Records Office, University of the Witwatersrand

DUL

Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections

HCO

High Commissioner's Office

HCT

High Commission Territory

ICwS

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Archives and Special Collections

KIII

Khama III Memorial Museum

LHASC

Labour History Archive and Study Centre, People's History Museum

NAC

National Archives of Canada

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration of the USA RG Record Group

NASA

National Archives of South Africa
BLO High Commission to London
BVV External Affairs Department
PM Prime Minister's Office

OIOC

Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library

RA

Royal Archives, Windsor Castle

SADCC

Southern African Development Coordination Conference

SADC

Southern African Development Community, Secretariat Library

SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies, Archives and Manuscripts
CWM Council for World Mission
LMS London Missionary Society
MCF Movement for Colonial Freedom

SUL (UK)

Sussex University Library Special Collections

SUL (US)

Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center

TNA:PRO

The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office
CAB Cabinet Papers
CO Colonial Office
DO Dominions Office
PREM Prime Minister's Office

WASU

West African Students Union

WCLUW

William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand

Notes
1 FROM AFRICA TO WARTORN BRITAIN

1.
Margaret Bourke-White to Bill, n.d., SUL (US), MB-W, Box 25.

2.
Speech by Sir Seretse Khama at State Banquet, Blantyre, first anniversary of the Republic of Malawi, 5 July 1967, BECM.

3.
Sampson,
Mandela
, pp. 21–5; Mandela,
Long Walk to Freedom
, p. 44.

4.
Parsons, Henderson and Tlou,
Seretse Khama
, p. 59.

5.
Mandela to Masire, n.d. [July 1980], ANC, Oliver Tambo Papers.

6.
Nkomo,
The Story of My Life
, p. 35.

7.
Parsons, Henderson and Tlou,
Seretse Khama
, p. 59.

8.
Sampson,
Mandela
, pp. 34–5.

9.
Mandela,
Long Walk to Freedom
, pp. 105–6.

10.
Information provided by Anna Sander, Lonsdale Curator of Archives and Manuscripts, Balliol College, Oxford.

11.
Coupland to Buchanan, 25 October 1945, BNARS, S 169/15/1.

12.
Keith, ‘African Students in Great Britain,' pp. 65–6; Kirk-Greene, ‘Doubly Elite', in Killingray (ed.),
Africans in Britain
, pp. 221–2.

13.
Speech by Sir Seretse Khama at State Banquet, Blantyre, first anniversary of the Republic of Malawi, 5 July 1967, BECM.

14.
Comment by Lancelot Gama, quoted in Callinicos,
Oliver Tambo
, pp. 108–9.

15.
Muriel Sanderson to author, 28 July 2003.

16.
Abrams,
The Population of Great Britain
, p. 21; Flint, ‘Scandal at the Bristol Hotel', p. 75; Banton,
The Coloured Quarter
, pp. 66–8. Banton asserts the impossibility of knowing either the total number of ‘coloured' people in Britain at the time, or how they were distributed through the country; the figure given here is therefore an estimate, based on figures estimated by Flint and by Banton.

17.
Political and Economic Planning,
Colonial Students in Britain
, pp. 85–6.

18.
Constantine,
Colour Bar
, pp. 25–6.

19.
Picture Post
, 2 July 1949.

20.
Flint, ‘Scandal at the Bristol Hotel', pp. 77–8.

21.
ibid., p. 76.

22.
Caryl Phillips, ‘To Ricky with love',
Guardian Review
, 23 July 2005.

23.
Morton and Ramsay,
Birth of Botswana
, pp. 102–9; Robins,
White Queen in Africa
, p. 21.

24.
Bent,
Ten Thousand Men of Africa
, p. 99.

25.
Muriel Sanderson to author, 28 July 2003.

26.
Adi,
West Africans in Britain
, pp. 137–8; Anderson,
Histories of the Hanged
, pp. 36–7.

27.
Gabolebye Dinti Marobele to Head, in Head,
Serowe
, pp. 97–8.

28.
Zweiniger-Bargielowska,
Austerity in Britain
, pp. 214–15.

29.
Seretse to Tshekedi, 5 December 1945, BNARS, S 169/15/1.

30.
Parsons, Henderson and Tlou,
Seretse Khama
, p. 65.

31.
ibid., p. 47.

32.
Speech by Sir Seretse Khama at State Banquet, Blantyre, first anniversary of the Republic of Malawi, 5 July 1967, BECM.

33.
J. E. C. Hill to Seretse Khama, 27 February 1976, BCA, dossier Khama S. (1945).

34.
Lord Lindsay of Birker to A. Sillery, 3 May 1948, BCA, dossier Khama S. (1945).

35.
Admission records for Seretse Khama, 1945–6, Inner Temple Archives.

36.
Seretse to Tshekedi, 14 June 1946, BNARS, S 169/15/1.

37.
Pilkington to Chirgwin, 15 July 1946, SOAS, CWM/LMS, AF/37.

38.
Coupland to Buchanan, 25 July 1946, BNARS, S 169/15/1.

39.
A. D. Lindsay, Master, Handshaking Notes on Seretse Khama, Hilary Term, 1947, BCA, Studies & Discipline 8.

40.
Charles Njonjo to author, 12 March 2004.

41.
Hon. Gladstone Mills, Foreword to Braithwaite,
Colonial West Indian Students in Britain
, p. viii.

42.
Charles Njonjo to author, 12 March 2004.

43.
ibid., 6 January 2005.

44.
Stonehouse,
Prohibited Immigrant
, p. 14.

45.
Speech by Dr Kamuzu Banda at State Banquet, Blantyre, first anniversary of the Republic of Malawi, 5 July 1967, BECM.

46.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
: Harry Nkumbula.

47.
The Hon. Gerard Noel to author, 11 July 2005.

48.
Keith, ‘African Students in Great Britain,' pp. 65–6.

49.
The Times
, 14 July 1990.

50.
Appiah,
Joe Appiah: The Autobiography of an African Patriot
, p. 150.

51.
C. L. R. James, ‘Africans and Afro-Caribbeans: A Personal View (1984)' in Procter (ed.),
Writing Black Britain
, pp. 61–2.

52.
Keith, ‘African Students in Great Britain,' p. 70.

53.
Murray-Brown,
Kenyatta
, p. 218.

54.
Olusanya,
The West African Students' Union
, p. 107.

55.
Quoted in Adi,
West Africans in Britain
, p. 120.

56.
Nwauwa,
Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism
, p. 171.

57.
Hansard
, 21 February 1946.

58.
Padmore,
History of the Pan-African Congress
, 2nd edn, p. i.

59.
Padmore,
Colonial… and Coloured Unity
, p. 29.

60.
Quoted in Murray-Brown,
Kenyatta
, p. 220.

61.
Quoted in Adi,
West Africans in Britain
, p. 128.

62.
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
, p. 47.

2 LOVE MATCH

1.
Charles Njonjo to author, 12 March 2004.

2.
Muriel Sanderson to author, 17 November 2004.

3.
Sunday Dispatch
, 2 April 1950.

4.
Ebony
, June 1951.

5.
Braithwaite, Colonial West Indian Students in Britain
, pp. 209–21.

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