Word: malawi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that, the Queen flew off to Malawi and Botswana, and to Zambia for a meeting of the Commonwealth Conference where the "racism" of the new regime in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia will be the topic of discussions that should match the Tanzanian dance for symbolic violence...
...There's an African rule. If you go right down from Kenya, through Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa, you can spot pretty well those black organizations which are saying the things that will have mass support. It's not always those who have the largest numbers on their membership lists at the moment. In South Africa it would be the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), and the Black People's Convention...
...chief executive of the London-based conglomerate Lonrho, Ltd. Rowland has transformed a small initial stake in Africa into one of the continent's biggest commercial empires. Among his friends are Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya -not to mention Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia...
...Mining and Land Co. Ltd. He then embarked on a strategy of befriending black nationalist leaders on the way to furthering his business interests. It paid off: Lonrho's holdings now include an estimated 1 million acres of Rhodesian land and substantial concessions, sugar and tea plantations in Malawi, textile mills in the Ivory Coast, newspapers, copper mines and breweries in Zambia, coal, platinum and copper mines in South Africa, and the continent's largest auto dealership (selling, in addition to Mercedes, Ford and Toyota cars). The company has diversified far beyond Africa, employing 100,000 people...
RENEÉ POUSSAINT, 32, was born in Spanish Harlem, studied at Sarah Lawrence, the Sorbonne, Yale's law school and U.C.L.A., sold advertising for a radio station in Malawi, translated a tome on anthropology from the French, and taught at Indiana University. Finding that her Indiana students paid more attention to television than to books, Poussaint fired off copies of her resume to television and radio stations around the country. CBS hired her for its Chicago outlet, and three years later made her a network correspondent there, at $28,000 a year. But Poussaint considers network reporting just another...