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Lectures on the history of the Irish Capuchin missions (primarily in Africa) compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. The talks were likely prepared for promotional and educational purposes. They include copy documents including a letter from the Most Rev. Bernard O’Riley, Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, requesting a Capuchin foundation in his diocese (12 May 1927), and copy letters from Archbishop Carlo Salotti, Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, to Fr. Melchor a Benisa OFM Cap., Minister General, re the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia (Jan. 1931).

A history of Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip in South West Africa (Namibia) compiled by Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008). The history is divided into four distinct sections:
• The history of the Makalolo on the Zambezi, 1800-1870
• The first missionaries to Linyanti
• The colonial era / the poachers on the Kwando, 1890-1940
• The Capuchins at Katima Mulilo, 1944-1984
The final section of the history contains copy letters and documents relating to the administration and staffing of the Holy Family Mission in Katima Mulilo including statistical information re the area and population of the district and a list of resident friars in the mission from 1940-72.

A list of Irish Capuchin friars who worked as missionaries in Africa from January 1929 to c.1985. The list was compiled for research purposes by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. The information is listed under name, year of arrival, details of posting (whether to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia or to South Africa) and remarks. Information is also supplied in respect of whether the friar in question is deceased. The list notes that Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. travelled to Cape Town in January 1929 on a tour of inspection of potential mission territories.

Ng’ambela Imwaka, Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap., Br. Casey CBS, Mbikusita Lewanika II (Litunga or Paramount Chief of the Lozi people), Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap., Br. Wiley CBS, Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. The Christian Brothers took over St. John’s in Mongu in 1967.