Word: kaunda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...South Africa Co., last of England's royal charter companies operating in Africa. B.S.A. runs no mines, instead collects handsome royalties ($28 million in 1961) from land leases. Under aging (77) Colonel the Lord Robins, a transplanted Philadelphian and onetime Rhodes scholar, B.S.A. has consistently fought rising Kenneth Kaunda and, by general rumor, still shovels money to rival-and less aggressive-African leaders. As a result, according to Rhodesians, "Kaunda has declared war on B.S.A." Although Lord Robins earlier this month announced his retirement as B.S.A.'s president, the war seems certain to continue, and B.S.A. now reinvests...
...Kaunda burst into tears.) Nationalist leaders nicknamed Welensky "the Elephant"; in their eyes, he was almost literally a white elephant in modern Africa...
...Kaunda into jail. (Recalling the tribulations of his people at the U.N. last week...
...Stuart Gore-Browne, Kaunda's political associate and a long-time North-Rhodesia resident, told the audience if Kaunda gains power, he will policy of equal treatment of all and work for gradual social and economic change. He blamed unrest in Rhodesia on uninformed and inconsistent Social Office administration and the of men like Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister, to realize that rights must be served...