The records document the political system, government, judiciary, laws, military, customs, economy, finance, agriculture, natural resources, industry, communications, media and relations between British Africa, Rhodesia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Swaziland, British West Africa, Nigeria, Southern Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Somaliland, Nyasaland, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and other nations.