Papers of Lalage Bown, OBE

• Reports, programmes, curricula, minutes, lecture texts, etc. relating to adult education in various African universities, 1949-1979
• Reports, memoranda, texts of lectures and addresses, notes, etc. relating to adult education in Africa generally, 1950-1978
• Reports, memoranda, texts of articles and lectures, printed material, press cuttings, notes, etc. relating to University education in Africa, 1955-1967
• Texts of addresses and lectures, minutes, drafts of statutes, etc. relating to African affairs, 1961-1974
• Letters, programmes, printed texts of speeches, etc. relating to international adult education

Professor Lalage Bown (fl 1927-1981) worked as Resident Tutor, University College of the Gold Coast, for Trans-Volta and Togoland, 1949-1955, and at the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, Makerere College, East Uganda, 1955-1959. While in the Gold Coast she was involved in the initiation of the Awudome Residential Adult College. She was Assistant Director, then Deputy Director of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1960-1966 and Director of Extra-Mural Studies and Professor (ad personam), University of Zambia, 1966-1970. From 1971-1976 she was Professor of Adult Education and Chief Extension Co-ordinator, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She held the posts of Professor and Head of the Department of Adult Education, 1977-1979 and Dean of Education, 1979-1980, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the William Pearson Tolley Medal by Syracuse University, New York, USA, 1975 and the OBE, 1977.

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Listed as no. 799 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996). A handlist is available for consultation in the library reading room.

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Transcript of interview on adult education in Ghana and Uganda, 1983 and transcript of contribution to an African affairs seminar, 1983 on the politics of adult education in Africa, 1945-1960 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1825 (11) (Box III).