Records of Clyde Sanger

The collection consists of notebooks, correspondence and files of cuttings, drafts articles and reports created and maintained throughout his long career from the late 1950s to 2010. The collection represents a large body of his work on Africa, Canada, South America, the UN, the Commonwealth, and press freedom. The titles given to notebooks and files are those originally given by Clyde Sanger, except where indicated by square brackets.

Clyde Sanger was a journalist and author who wrote prolifically over the last six decades on African and Canadian politics, the Commonwealth, international development, and the environment.

In his early career, Clyde was a reporter for the Staffordshire Evening Sentinel, London Evening News and Daily Mail. He moved to Africa in 1957 where he edited the political and economic magazine The Central African Examiner in Southern Rhodesia. He left the Examiner in 1959 to join the Guardian, where he became the paper's first Africa correspondent in 1960. Whilst working in Africa between 1957 and 1965 he reported on a range of social, economic and political news and befriended nationalist leaders including Joshua Nkomo, Kenneth Kaunda and Ndsbaningi Sithole.

Since moving to North America in 1965 Clyde worked as UN correspondent and Canada correspondent for the Guardian, Parliamentary reporter for the Globe and Mail and Canada correspondent for the Economist. He also served as a Governor of NewsConcern International Foundation, Director of Information for The Commonwealth Secretariat, Director of Communications for the North-South Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Carleton University.

His books include: Central African Emergency (1960). The Kenya General Election of 1963 (1864), Half a Loaf: Canada's semi-role among developing countries (1969), Stitches in Time: the Commonwealth in world politics (1983) and Malcolm MacDonald: bringing an end to empire (1995).

Arranged by medium.

Open(part). Some records are closed in line with data protection legislation. All notebooks and notes within files written in shorthand are closed until their contents can be ascertained. See the full catalogue for this collection for further information.

Catalogued and open records may be viewed in our reading room by appointment only, see our website for more information.

Donated to the Guardian News & Media Archive by Clyde Sanger in 2018.

Material relating to Clyde Sanger can also be found in the GNM Archive's Gemini collection (reference: GEM) and Guardian staff photograph series (reference GUA/6/9/1/11/2/S).