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With dozens of former African colonies and territories declaring their independence since World War II, the ceremony has become more or less ritualized. And so it was last week in Malawi, formerly the British central African protectorate of Nyasaland, now African nation No. 35. At the stroke of midnight, as fireworks lit the sky over Blan-tyre's Central Stadium, the Union Jack was hauled down in the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In its place rose the black, red and green banner of the newly sovereign nation of Malawi...
When Malta's 129,649 voters approved independence by a small majority last week, their tiny Mediterranean island joined Malawi, Zambia and Tanzan* in a gaggle of emergent nations that are twisting tongues and ending any pretense of proportional representation in the U.N. Others clamoring for nationhood include British Guiana (pop. 620,000), Southern Rhodesia (4,000,000), Bechuanaland (335,000) and Angola (circa...
...Nyasaland (pop. circa 3,500,000) will be known as Malawi after independence, July 6; Northern Rhodesia (3,500,000) will become Zambia Oct. 24; the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, pop. circa 10 million, is already a member...
...however, to make Tanganyika a successful independent state. That ingredient-leadership-is provided by Julius Nyerere. A slender, soft-eyed man with a Chaplinesque mustache, Nyerere is the antithesis of most African leaders. Where others affect high-flown nicknames like "Redeemer" (Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah) or "Lion of Malawi" (Nyasa-land's Kamuzu Banda), Nyerere is content to be known as Mwalimu-Swahili for teacher. Where other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Swahili...
...positions of the three territories are radically different. Little Nyasaland, which becomes the independent state of Malawi on July 6, has some 3,500,000 people and virtually no resources except its brilliant but megalomaniacal leader Dr. Banda. Northern Rhodesia, which will obtain full independence next fall as the state of Zambia, is loaded with mineral wealth, and its copper represents one of Africa's most profitable exports. Moderate Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National...