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Word: chinyanja (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, where he was a prosperous London physician with a large white practice. Yet, when he returned to his native Nyasaland (pop. 2.800,000, almost all black) in 1958 after 40 years of self-exile, thousands of Africans met his plane and cheered hysterically when he shouted the one Chinyanja word he still remembered: "Kwaca! [dawn]," the slogan of all Nyasaland nationalists who demand self-rule and separation from the Central African Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RIDING THE CHANGING WINDS | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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