Word: kamuzu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant-looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation...
Early Life. Originally named Kamuzu (the little root) because a medicine man had cured his mother's barrenness with a root herb, he later took the name of Hastings from a missionary he admired. When only 13 he ran away from home. At first his parents thought he had been eaten by a lion, learned only months later that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to the gold mines of South Africa. There, working by day and studying by night, he accumulated a little learning and a little money, with the help of a Methodist bishop made...
When he finally gave up his prosperous London practice to go home to Africa, after 40 years of self-imposed exile (TIME, July 21), Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda proudly adopted the title "the extremest of the extremists." A gnomelike little man who, as a youth, "wandered from university to university like a medieval scholar," in the U.S. and Scotland, he has more than lived up to his title. Though he speaks scarcely a word of his native tongue, he has stumped the countryside using translators (which seems to increase his prestige among his fellow blacks), railing at the British-sponsored...
...freedom). They draped their hero in a ceremonial leopard skin, carried him on their shoulders to a car, yelled and beat tom-toms as he drove off, escorted by red-robed young "freedom fighters" on motorcycles. Thus last week, after 40 years of self-imposed exile, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 53-"savior, liberator and messiah"-came home...