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Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...
Like an umpire stricken with palsy, Mr. Ian Macleod, Britian's Colonial Secretary, sits fluttering in his chair in London as the conference on federal constitutional review for Rhodesia and Nyasaland only continues to reveal the intransigeance of both sides...
Obsessed simply with the idea of secession from the federation, the nationalist leader of Nyasaland, Dr. Hastings Banda (who is respected perhaps above all Africans), has walked out of the conference twice. The second time he dragged the Northern and Southern Rhodesian leaders out the door as well, in an attempt to unite the Africans delegations against their most powerful enemies: Sir Roy Welensky, the Federal Prime Minister, and Sir Edgar Whitehead, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia...
...course it is unlikely that the Africans would settle for representation even if they could get it. The perpetual persecution of nationalists and the imprisonment of Dr. Banda two years ago have made a history in Rhodesia and Nyasaland too unhappy to be forgotten through such easy compromises. Yet as Dr. Banda himself has said, "There's absolutely no chance of conciliation or understanding between the Europeans and Africans in Central Africa" so long as Sir Edgar and Sir Roy are in power...
Voting Parity. Under liberal new voting rules, African majorities would be almost guaranteed in Northern Rhodesia (73,000 whites, 2,280,000 blacks) and Nyasaland (9,000 whites, 2,750,000 blacks); only Southern Rhodesia's 215,000 whites (v. 2,630,000 blacks) could be reasonably sure of continued domination-for a time...