The Transcription Centre Records 1931-1986 (bulk 1960-1977)

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The Transcription Centre Records 1931-1986 (bulk 1960-1977)

The records of the TranscriptionCentre comprise scripts and manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, businessrecords, ephemera, photographs, and clippings spanning the years 1931 to 1986.

25 boxes (10.50 linear feet)

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Soyinka, Wole, 1934-

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Epithet: Wole', African author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000105 Wole Soyinka (born Oluwole Akinwande Babatunde Soyinka Wole, July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian author and humanitarian. Educated at the University College, Ibadan (later the University of Ibadan) from 1952-54 and the University of Leeds (B.A., 1957). While in England, he served as a playreader at the Royal ...

The Transcription Centre, circa 1962-1977

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The Transcription Centre began its brief but significant life in February 1962 under the direction of Dennis Duerden (1927-2006), producing and distributing radio programs for and about Africa. Duerden was a graduate of Queen’s College, Oxford and had served as principal of the Government Teachers’ College at Keffi, Nigeria and later as producer of the Hausa Service of the BBC. As an artist and educator with experience in West Africa, as well as a perceptive critic of African art he...

Bown, Lalage J.

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Lalage J. Bown was born in Surrey, U.K. in 1927 but spent much of her professional career in Africa, establishing or expanding adult education programs at various universities in Ghana, Uganda, and Nigeria. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Oxford, where she took Second Class Honors in Modern History (1949) and then continued on to an M.A. (1952). She taught briefly at the University of Edinburgh before relocating to Africa where she taught at the Univers...

Beinart, Julian

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Mphahlele, Ezekiel

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Transcription Centre

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Kubik, Gerhard, 1934-....

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Duerden, Dennis

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Commonwealth Arts Festival. (1965 : London, England)

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Laurence, Margaret

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Achebe, Chinua

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Akolo, Jimo Bola, 1935-

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