Word: banda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic troubles mirror the nation's political plight. The federation is fast falling apart because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...
...outpaced by events and emotions. From the start. Sir Roy (he was knighted in 1953) failed to realize that he would have to come to terms with African nationalism. He forced Southern Rhodesia's black leader. Joshua Nkomo. into exile, threw Nyasaland's Dr. Hastings Banda and Northern Rhodesia's Kenneth...
Says Nyasaland's Hastings Banda : "We will soon write the Elephant's epitaph...
...hills. Some lit campfires in the chilly night as they waited for the polls to open at 6 a.m. A 103-year-old man walked the night through to cast his vote at Visanza. and then collapsed. The results could scarcely have been more humiliating to Sir Roy. Although Banda had been expected to win the 20 seats contested in the lower roll, no one had been prepared for his runaway popularity. He swept 99% of the African vote. And even in the upper roll, the Asian voters clearly decided to back a winner. Enough of them switched from...
...sleek Mercedes, victorious Dr. Banda drove through cheering crowds to the $28,000 house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers...