Listed below, going under various names, central files, general files, confidential files, or decimal files, are records taken from the Department of State's Internal and Foreign Affairs Subject Classifications of files now housed in the United States National Archives. This material consists mainly of reports, documents and correspondence received from and sent to diplomatic posts covering a wide range of reporting on political, military, social and economic developments, minutes, interviews, texts of letters and instructions, and foreign documents and translations of foreign documents.

To date the Library has the following series for British Africa:

British Africa: External Affiars	1945-1949	14 reels & printed guide	DT32.5 .C663 1991x
British Africa: Internal and External Affiars	1950-1954	29 reels & printed guide	DT32.5 .C664 1991x
British Africa: Internal and External Affiars	1955-1959	39 reels & printed guide	DT32.5 .C665 1991x