Word: nyasaland
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...Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
Jobs for a Lifetime. Until the new churches can really stand on their own, much remains to be done by missionaries. Says Lutheran Wesley Sadler, who runs a literacy center in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "It is fallacious to say that the missionary should endeavor to work himself out of a job. Linguistic missionaries, for example, may have completed their task in a particular language area, but there are hundreds of others for them to turn their talents to. In general, the needs of the mission are great and will not be met in our lifetime...
While South Africans jailed and shot blacks last week, the British freed a black who symbolizes demands for Negro self-rule in the shaky Central African Federation to the north. The symbolic figure is Dr. Hastings Banda, 55, fiery, U.S.-educated leader of the Nyasaland African National Congress, who was jailed last year after mass demonstrations much like those now exploding all across South Africa...
...Britain's able, ambitious Colonial Secretary Iain MacLeod who took the bold gamble. The white Rhodesians who dominate the Central African Federation tried to dissuade him. They pointed out that Banda, self-styled "extremist of the extremists," had fought for a separate, all-black Nyasaland. shouting, "To hell with the federation!" Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead had even warned darkly that if the blacks gained control in the north, Southern Rhodesia would secede from the federation...
Fearful that Banda's release would set off fresh violence in Nyasaland, Governor Sir Robert Armitage organized an elaborately secret "Operation 1066" to spirit Banda from his jail cell in Southern Rhodesia to meet MacLeod in Zomba. After a go-minute session at Government House, Banda emerged jubilant...