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The Hoover Institution’s library and tower will be closed on Tuesday morning, February 14, 2012, due to electrical work. The Hoover archives will be open during the process. The library and tower will reopen at 11:30 am on February 14, 2012. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Central Africa

Archival collections include the Brian Weinstein papers concerning Félix Éboué and Gabon, 1893–1972; the Charles F. Darlington papers (Darlington was U.S. ambassador to Gabon, 1961–65; the René Lemarchand papers on Burundi, Rwanda, and Zaire, 1920–72; the Urbain Kinet papers on work at the Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale in Uvira, Zaire; the diary of René Gauze, chief of police, Brazzaville, 1949–63; the Virginia M. Thompson-Richard Adloff papers concerning Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, and other Francophone African countries, 1931–86; reports by British missionary David Grenfell of work among Angolan refugees in Zaire, 1963–70; photocopies of material on Equatorial Guinea from Suzanne Cronje, 1969–77; records of the Conseil National de Libération (Zaire), 1964, concerning the Kwilu rebellion; five manuscript boxes and ten reels, 1947–63, of political ephemera and government documents collected by Herbert Weiss (mainly in Lingala); and records on the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution (Zaire), 1967–75; and the Ernest Lefever papers on United Nations intervention in Zaire.