Word: malawi
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...proposal made eminently good sense. With scores of brands-ranging from Kools and Viceroys in the U.S. through its Brown & Williamson subsidiary to Tom Toms in Malawi-on sale in over 150 countries, BAT is the world's biggest, most profitable (1965 earnings: $230 million) tobacco company. But BAT needs a sizable British business to help balance highly taxed foreign earnings (it sells no tobacco in England) and, not least, to ensure its growth against a leveling off of tobacco sales because of the health scare...
...will be dependent on the South African economy for survival. Eventually he hopes to create a southern African Common Market, composed of the protectorates, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, and perhaps even black-ruled Malawi, where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda has little choice but to be nice to the white lands that surround him. Dominating such a market, of course, would be South Africa...
...Shrug at Race. The people, in Malawi's case, consist of 4,000,000 blacks, 12,000 Asians and 7,000 whites. Though the whites hold the best civil service jobs and run the army and police force, race relations are harmonious. To complaints that blacks should be running more of the show, Banda only shrugs that they will-when they are skilled enough. "I will not Africanize," Banda said last week, "just for the sake of Africanization...
Banda is just as emphatically his own man on Africa-wide matters. Last week Diallo Telli, Guinea's leftist secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, was in Malawi for Banda's inauguration when he suddenly found some of his pet schemes under scathing attack during a Banda press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank...
...Plagued by too many people (106 per sq. mi.) and too few natural resources, the country is scarcely self-sufficient, and survives partly on the earnings of 230,000 Malawians who migrate to South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia for temporary jobs in mines and factories. Though independent, Malawi also counts heavily on British help. Total British aid to Malawi in the next three years will run between $25 million and $28 million a year, making Banda's tiny republic the second largest recipient of British aid in Africa (after Kenya) and the fourth largest in the world...