Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could...
Only 48 Years. The naming of the commission mollified the House of Commons, but the sedate House of Lords was treated to a speech that nearly unsettled everything again. Up popped 75-year-old Lord Malvern, who as Sir Godfrey Huggins was the first Prime Minister of the Central African Federation when Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias were linked together in 1953. His credentials to discuss Central Africa were that "I have only lived there 48 years," and that he knows more about the subject than "itinerant politicians" who, he said, prowl about Africa, writing for left-wing newspapers...
...this was hardly the sort of thing to endear the get-tough policies of Malvern's successor, federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, to his London critics. No African, said the Earl of Lucan, could now "have any doubt as to the kind of attitude of certain of the Europeans." But last week, in the Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free...
Career. Settling down in the lower-class Kilburn district of London, he gradually built up a thriving practice of 4,000 patients, most of them white. His modest home became a favorite meeting place for such future African leaders as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who called him affectionately "G.P." or "the Doc." Intense and impassioned about his native Nyasaland, he became increasingly bitter after the Federation was formed in 1953. "The Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years...
Goals. "I've lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and also Britain," says Banda. "I have nothing against those Europeans who think of Africans as human beings. I'm against those who think they're the chosen ones of God and that Africans are their 'boys.' " Banda's immediate goal: to get Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation...