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The awkward biography of the young Washington Okumu: CIA asset (?) and the Prayer Breakfast’s man in Africa

Nancy J. JacobsBrown UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 225-245 | Received 01 Feb 2018, Accepted 01 Oct 2018, Published online: 11 Mar 2019

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Archival sources (assistance credited in parentheses)

  • ACA: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Vorster, Balthazar Johannes collection (Eleanor Bron).
  • BGC: Billy Graham Center Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Collection 459, Records of the Fellowship Foundation (Amber Thomas).
  • HUA: Harvard University Archives.
  • HIA: Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Tom Mboya Papers and William X. Scheinman Papers (Kelsey McFaul).
  • KNA: Kenya National Archives. Nairobi. Murumbi Africana Collection (Alfred Anangwe).
  • MSS: Michigan State University, Library Special Collections/East Lansing. African American Students Foundation/Cora Weiss collection 341 (John Doyle-Raso).
  • NARA II: National Archives II, College Park, Maryland (Daniel Branch).
  • NARSSA: National Archives and Records Service of South Africa. Pretoria. 1976. SAB: CAB 1/1/6 (Liesl du Preez).
  • OP: Okumu Papers. Bondo Kenya (Aidea Downie).
  • UNIDO. Online archive < https://open.unido.org/ > (Dan Tatar).

Interviews

  • Mangosutho Buthelezi, Cape Town (by Hilary Lynd) (22 August 2018).
  • Colin Coleman, Johannesburg (6 September 2017).
  • Ross Main, Plettenburg Bay (26 August 2017).
  • Washington Okumu (13 interviews), Nyang’oma Bondo, Kenya (with Aidea Downie) (12–19 June 2016).

Personal communications

  • IFB (International Foundation Board) [Fellowship Foundation] (31 March 2018).
  • Kostantin Ivanov, UNIDO Department of Human Resources Mangement (30 April 2018).
  • King’s College, Cambridge University assistant archivist (12 July 2016).
  • King’s College, Cambridge University student registry administrator (5 February 2018).
  • Hugh Macmillan (25 January 2018).

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