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...Kamuzu Banda, the Prime Minister of Nyasaland, said last night that after independence next July his African country will steer a moderate course between Left and Right at home and East and West abroad...
What infuriated "Royboy," Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, was the announcement last week that Britain had decided to permit Nyasaland to secede from his crumbling, nine-year-old federation. Under a black majority headed by Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda (he no longer calls himself Hastings-too British), an urbane onetime London general practitioner, Nyasaland is expected to quit within a year. Northern Rhodesia, whose first black government took over a fortnight ago and likes the idea of keeping the $320 million-a-year copper-mining industry all to itself, would like to follow suit. Even in Southern Rhodesia...
...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...