Word: malawi
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...satellites, East Germany, styles itself the German Democratic Republic. For that matter, all the satellites are fond of calling themselves "peoples' democracies." That tag was adopted by Indonesian Dictator Sukarno after he gave up the patently absurd mislabel of "guided democracy"-which has now been picked up by Malawi President H. Kamuzu Banda, who explains blandly, "I am a dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites in power over the nation's 4,000,000 blacks, insists that what...
...founded, it reflected an older world; only four African nations were represented. Now, with the relentless recessional of the colonial powers, new African nations began sprouting almost faster than they could be counted. The present roster of 114 members includes 36 Africans. From Tanzania and Zambia, from Malawi and Upper Volta, from places no one had heard of before, came men with gaudy robes, beaded headdresses, and Oxford or Sorbonne accents-most of them young and eager, all of them defensive, few of them experienced in even the lowest levels of diplomacy...
...range the political and racial spectrum from apartheid South Africa to black nationalist Zambia. Its $42 million in annual sales comes from a vast array of enterprises: mining projects and ranching in Rhodesia, land speculation in Swaziland, forestry and the new pipeline in Mozambique, sugar and tea plantations in Malawi, coal mining in South Africa, sisal plantations in Tanzania and breweries, newspapers and prospecting rights in Zambia. Lonrho is also planning an $11 million fertilizer plant in Rhodesia, has proposed and is promoting what could be its biggest venture yet: a $140 million railroad linking Zambia and Tanzania...
...Rowland makes it clear to Africa's sensitive new leaders that he craves only a business empire. "I'm not at all interested in politics," he says, "only in doing business." He has associated himself with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from his dignitary's seat while Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda roared that "all businessmen are crooks." Rowland could afford to smile. Malawi is dependent on railway and lake transportation systems that are controlled by Lonrho...
...signatories included the tiny leftist kingdom of Burundi, where Chinese influence is strong, and backwater states that once belonged to France: Central African Republic, Brazzaville Congo, Dahomey, Mauritania and Mali. Also on the list, however, were normally more moderate Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Commonwealth nations of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, of which better things should have been expected...