Word: malawi
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...salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...
...Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have a "president" as such; they must find another title. "If I am a dictator," Banda said last week, "it is because my people want me to be. I am a dictator of the people, by the people and for the people...
Like a Nation. Significantly, Unilever has catered to Africa's desire to upgrade itself by moving into manufacturing and more advanced marketing. From Malawi to the Ivory Coast, it makes cosmetics, brews beer and packs meat-all of which it sells in Unilever stores. In Nigeria, U.A.C. subsidiaries assemble Willys Jeeps and six-wheel "mammy wagons," produce 80% of the country's corrugated paperboard and containers, also dominate the marketing of bicycles and building materials, and sell telecommunications equipment and earth-moving machinery. In a way, Unilever is as powerful as a nation. The largest employer in tropical...
...Sudan's Mohammed Mahgoub has reason to resent Uganda's Milton Obote, who harbors Sudanese rebels. Congo Strongman Joseph Mobutu is no friend of Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who helped funnel arms to the Simba rebels. Since Tanzania is currently a base for the enemies of Malawi's Premier Kamuzu Banda, the crotchety autocrat stayed away from the Nairobi summit, although he unbent enough to send his Commerce Minister. Of the lot, only Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda were on good terms with all hands...
...which gained its freedom only last year, is too new and too tiny to give Prime Minister David Kairaba Jawara immediate cause for concern. French troops keep Gabon's President Léon Mba propped up in return for rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status quo. And, when Bechuanaland becomes independent in September, Prime Minister Seretse Khama will have...