Word: banda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While South Africans jailed and shot blacks last week, the British freed a black who symbolizes demands for Negro self-rule in the shaky Central African Federation to the north. The symbolic figure is Dr. Hastings Banda, 55, fiery, U.S.-educated leader of the Nyasaland African National Congress, who was jailed last year after mass demonstrations much like those now exploding all across South Africa...
...Britain's able, ambitious Colonial Secretary Iain MacLeod who took the bold gamble. The white Rhodesians who dominate the Central African Federation tried to dissuade him. They pointed out that Banda, self-styled "extremist of the extremists," had fought for a separate, all-black Nyasaland. shouting, "To hell with the federation!" Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead had even warned darkly that if the blacks gained control in the north, Southern Rhodesia would secede from the federation...
...week in Central Africa convinced MacLeod that the African "wind of change" was blowing too hard to be contained. There was a chance of bringing whites and blacks together, he concluded -but only if Banda was freed first...
Fearful that Banda's release would set off fresh violence in Nyasaland, Governor Sir Robert Armitage organized an elaborately secret "Operation 1066" to spirit Banda from his jail cell in Southern Rhodesia to meet MacLeod in Zomba. After a go-minute session at Government House, Banda emerged jubilant...
...Banda's name was a household word in Nyasaland, for from faraway London he had produced a torrent of fiery pamphlets, messages and speeches in the cause of Nyasa independence. Last year, when nationalist riots spread through the colony, the government brought in troops and declared a state of emergency, accusing Banda of being the cause of it all. Banda denies he counseled violence, but he shouts: "We mean to get out of their damned federation. One cannot exclude violence. Africa is on the move. You cannot stop us!" Britain's Colonial Office wants Banda released, but Nyasaland...