Papers of Ronald Watts

Letters and documents relating to Ronald Watts' work on Bechuanaland, 1959-1964, and to South African refugees.
Items include: official correspondence and reports from the Leupane Livestock Improvement Centre; agricultural projects of the Bamangwato Tribal Administration; manuscript articles on Bechuanaland development, the economic development of Nyasaland, the benefits of Federation, Bechuanaland and South Africa; correspondence with JACARI about economics boycotts, with Margery Perham on constitutional proposals, with John Stonehouse MP, and Peter Frank Hannibal Emery MP; Africa Council minutes; Bechuanaland Protectorate Government Newsletter, 1964-1965; press cuttings from the African Echo 1960; Amnesty International report on refugees in Bechuanaland, 1963; private correspondence describing refugee relief work; correspondence with the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Randolph Vigne, Arthur Blaxall, Patrick Duncan, various refugees, South African United Front, Canon Collins, Sam Kahn; report by TF Betts on refugees in Bechuanaland.

Ronald Watts was an English agricultural economist and journalist who began his career in Africa working in Ibadan, Nigeria as a rural education officer. He and wife Theresa (née Piper) lived in the Bechaunaland Protectorate (now Botswana), Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. He held university qualifications in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Education, taught at Makerere University, Uganda, in the Department of Rural Economy, and worked for the governments of Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana and Zambia.

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Ronald Watts was an English agricultural economist and journalist who began his career in Africa working in Ibadan, Nigeria as a rural education officer. He and wife Theresa (née Piper) lived in the Bechaunaland Protectorate (now Botswana), Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. He held university qualifications in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Education, taught at Makerere University, Uganda, in the Department of Rural Economy, and worked for the governments of Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana and Zambia.

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