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Copy report by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on the Livingstone-Barotseland Mission for Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Minister General. With a cover letter to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The report notes that the mission is intended to be raised to the status of a Prefecture. The report is divided into the following sections:
Territory
Population
Local Tribes and Languages
Towns
Government
Non-Catholic Missions
Other Sects
Religious Beliefs of the Europeans
Attitude towards Catholicism
Education in Barotseland and Livingstone
Historical Resume of Capuchin Endeavour
a. Livingstone
b. Barotseland
c. Early Mission Policy
d. Teachers and Catechists
e. Turn in the Tide
f. In the Lealui District
g. In the Senanga District
Material Grand Total
Mission Difficulties Summarised
Mission Prospects
Conclusion

Reports, memoranda, and questionnaires collected and compiled by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., secretary of the Association of the Members of the Episcopal Conference in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) principally about priestly formation in the constituent countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. The file includes the following documentation:
• Record of the Inter-territorial Episcopal Meeting held at St. Joseph’s, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-26 July 1961. Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. was the recording secretary.
• AMECEA: A review of the first seven years.
• Extracts from the address by President Julius Nyerere to the Maryknoll Sisters’ General Chapter, New York. 16 Oct. 1970.
• Memorandum on the financial support of local African Ordinaries. 23 Apr. 1971.
• ‘Vocations to the Priesthood, Brotherhood, and Sisterhood in Zambia. 1970. Some factors and considerations’ by R.E.S. Tanner.
• Discussion document on the future of missionary societies by Fr. J. Glynn MM.
• Tanzania Church Inquiry. Memorandum on the pastoral position of the Catholic Church in Tanzania.
• Memorandum of the Association of Religious superiors in Eastern Africa.
• ‘The Church serving Developing Countries’. Extracts by AMECEA from a report sent to a seminar in Rome organised by a group of religious institutes active in missionary work. 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Opening address by Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli (1910-1980), Secretary of the Congregation for Evangelization, to the ‘Serving Developing Countries’ Seminar in Rome, 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Agenda and position papers at the plenary meeting of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Rome, 25-28 June 1968. Distributed by AMECEA.
• Prospectus of the Pastoral Institute of Eastern Africa in Kampala, Uganda (1969).
• Record of the AMECEA Study Conference held at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-21 Dec. 1973.

Report on the Prefecture Apostolic of Victoria Falls by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic and Regular Superior.
The report in divided into the following sections:

1. Initial Progress and History of the Mission
   First bush-stations
   Education
   Prefecture
   Further progress
   War Years, 1939-45
   Mission Policy
2. Adjoining Territory
3. Statistical Information arranged under the following headings:
   a. Livingstone
   b. Lealui
   c. Mongu
   d. Population
   e. Tribes
   f. Local governing structures
4. Protestant Missionary Influence
5. Government Schools
6. Attitude of the Colonial and Local Governments
7. Numbers of Catholics
8. Expenses
9. Conversions
10. Seat of the Ecclesiastical Superior
11. Number of Mission Stations
12. Government Subsidies
13. Missionary Personnel
14. Prospects for Vocations
15. Catechists
16. Foundations of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
17. Clerical Seminaries
18. Catholic Schools
19. Confraternities and Sodalities
    The final section of the report is titled: ‘Mission difficulties summarised’ and outlines the prospects for the future success of missionary work in the Prefecture. An appendix contains a brief report on missionary work in the Eastern Caprivi Strip.

Notes by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. re clothing and supplies which are needed for missionary work in Northern Rhodesia. The file includes several lists outlining the requirements. Fr. Killian notes that Monsignor Bruno Wolnick SJ ‘says we can get help for all of the above articles from the “Peter Claver Society”. Dublin Address: 49 North Great George’s Street’.