Word: malawi
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Banda, who is also president of the Malawi African National Congress, a political party which seeks to withdraw Nyasaland from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, claimed that the present federation is desired only by white settlers. They hope to use it to extend the oppressive "native policy" of Southern Rhodesia, Banda charged. The policy, according to Banda, is "in no way different from that of the Union of South Africa...
...self-imposed exile. Called ''savior, liberator, messiah," by the crowds who sing Banda Comes Marching Home and cover his car with kisses, he has stirred up the whole territory by screaming for an end to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, has already picked out a name - Malawi - for an African federation that would include Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Uganda, and parts of Northern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and the Belgian Congo. "We must fill their prisons ," he tells his shrieking followers. "We must go singing hallelujah. That's the way to get freedom...