The Kenya National Archives are part of the Syracuse University Libraries’ holdings consisting of thousands of microfilm reels of documents, reports, newspaper articles, and miscellaneous correspondence of the colonial government of Kenya from the 19th century until independence in the mid-1960’s. The collection is only sparsely indexed and the reels are housed on the 3rd floor of Syracuse University’s Bird Library, arranged by their microfilm numbers. Included here in SURFACE is the only index, the Guide to the Kenya National Archives, as well as guides and bibliographies to other parts of the collections, including other districts and regions within Kenya.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
This work is the property of Syracuse University. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
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Guide to daily correspondence of the Coast, Rift Valley, Central, and Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives microfilm
Robert G. Gregory and Richard E. Lewis
The daily correspondence of the provincial and district officers of the East Africa Protectorate and Kenya Colony were microfilmed during the 1960s as part of a cooperative project between the Kenya National Archives and Syracuse University. This guide was prepared at Syracuse University during 1982-84 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is an index to the follow collections of daily correspondence: Cost Province, 2nd series, 1894-1965: 150 reels -- Central Province, 1888-1964: 71 reels (1-40, 61-91) -- Rift Valley Province, 1894-1959: 61 reels -- Northeastern Province, 1909-63: 46 reels.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Guide to the secretariat circulars: Kenya National Archives microfilm
Robert G. Gregory and Richard E. Lewis
The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Included in the collection are circulars or circular letters issued by the British colonial Administration from 1916 through 1962.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Guide to Nyanza Province microfilm collection, Kenya National Archives, Part III: Section 10, Daily correspondence and reports, 1930-1963, Vol. I
Alan C. Solomon and Kenneth P. Lohrentz
This guide to the Nyanza Province microfilm collection of the Kenya National Archives consists of daily correspondence and reports for the Province from 1930 to 1963. It pertains to Section 10, the third and most substantial section of the Nyanza Province Archives, and is to be published in two volumes. Like Section 10B, also a predominantly post-1930 collection of documents, the records are arranged and filed according to the departments within the provincial administration to which they pertain.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Guide to Nyanza Province microfilm collection, Kenya National Archives, Part III: Section 10, Daily correspondence and reports, 1930-1963, Vol. II
Alan C. Solomon and Kenneth P. Lohrentz
This bibliographical list constitutes Volume II of Section 10 of the Nyanza Province daily correspondence and reports, 1930-1963, of the Kenya National Archives.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Africana microfilms at the E.S. Bird Library, Syracuse University : an annotated guide
David L. Easterbrook and Kenneth P. Lohrentz
Beginning in 1964 with three successive grants from the National Science Foundation, the Program of Eastern African studies of Syracuse University has acquired an extraordinary collection of microfilms relative to eastern Africa. Most of the microfilms pertain to Kenya, where the project was begun, but records now are being received from Ethiopia, where the project is currently being administered. The records on Kenya, extending through the entire period the British Colonial Administration, 1895-1963, and consisting of private as well as official sources, comprise the fullest and most valuable collection anywhere in the world on a developing country. Moreover, included in the Kenya collection are nearly all the records of the Eastern Asians. They alone are apparently the most extensive set of records on an overseas Indian community.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Guide to Nyanza Province microfilm collection, Kenya National Archives, Part II : Section 10A, Correspondence and reports, 1899-1942
Alan C. Solomon
This Nyanza Province microfilm collection of the Kenya National Archives consists of microfilmed reports and daily correspondence produced by the British colonial administration in the Nyanza Province from 1899 to 1942. The great majority of the records pertain to the period prior to 1930. These documents, filmed by the Archives' technical staff, are arranged, numbered, and filmed according to the system outlined in the Provincial and District Catalogs of the Kenya National Archives.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Guide to Nyanza Province microfilm collection, Kenya National Archives, Part I: Section 10B, Correspondence and reports 1925-1960
Alan C. Solomon and C. A. Crosby
The Nyanza Province microfilm collection of the Kenya National Archives consists of microfilmed reports and correspondence produced by the British colonial administration in the Nyanza Province from 1925 to 1960. These documents, filmed by the Archives' technical staff, are arranged, numbered and filmed according to the functional responsibilities of the colonial administration.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Microfilms related to Eastern Africa Part II (Kenya, Asian and Miscellaneous) : a guide to recent acquisitions of Syracuse University
David Leigh and Rodger F. Morton
Occasional Bibliography #21, Program of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University. Guide to microfilm related to Eastern Africa.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Protest movements in colonial East Africa : aspects of early African response to European rule
Robert W. Strayer, Edward I. Steinhart, Robert M. Maxon, and Robert G. Gregory
Concepts of protest in Africa, like historical concepts elsewhere, have undergone considerable change through the last half century, and it is possible at present to distinguish three schools of thought. These are the colonialist school, the nationalist, and, for want of a more specific term, the revisionist.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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Microfilms relating to Eastern Africa Part I (Kenya, Miscellaneous) : a guide to recent acquisitions of Syracuse University
Rodger F. Morton and Harvey Soff
Occasional Bibliography #19, Program of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University.
Guide to microfilm related to Eastern Africa.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
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A Guide to the Kenya National Archives to the Microfilms of the Provincial and District Annual Reports, Record Books, and Handing-Over Reports; Miscellaneous Correspondence; and Intelligence Reports
Robert G. Gregory, Robert M. Maxon, and Leon P. Spencer
The Guide is a compilation of 6 sections accessing approximately 157 microfilm reels of documents within the collection of the Kenya National Archives. Documents in the collection include archival material of the British colonial government in Kenya up to the mid 1960’s.
For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.
