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When the federation collapsed, it split into three parts. Nyasaland has gained independence under a black government, and Northern Rhodesia will have the same status next month. Southern Rhodesia, still a British self-governing colony, also wants independence, but Britain refuses to grant it, except under a new constitution that will give the now suppressed black majority a larger share in the government. Southern Rhodesia's white-supremacist Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects the idea and threatens to declare independence from Britain unilaterally, a move his critics refer to as "white uhuru...
...come, for Mozambique ranks just behind South Africa and Portuguese Angola on the list of "public enemies" drawn up by the Liberation Committee of the Organization of African Unity. With its upper half locked in the vise of militant black Africa, and the newly independent nation of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) jutting like an assegai into its heart, Mozambique is in a precarious position. Larger in area than Texas, the torrid, subequatorial nation is run by 163,000 whites and Asians who are outnumbered 40 to 1 by blacks. Yet Portugal's Dictator Antonio Salazar, who sits in a Lisbon...
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...
Jail & a Promise. That's where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda comes in, and that's where the difference lies. A compact gnome of a man, Banda showed determination as a lad of twelve by walking the 1,000 miles from Nyasaland to South Africa, by working in the gold mines there and by saving some of his earnings to pay his passage to the U.S. Methodists helped get him to the U.S. and put him through high school; he went on to the University of Chicago and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He practiced medicine...
Going It Alone. For ten years Northern Rhodesia formed part of Britain's ill-starred Central African Federation, in which the black-dominated protectorate was bound awkwardly to equally black Nyasaland and white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Last year, after Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland demanded independence, London reluctantly cut the ties among the three. Nyasaland is to gain independence in July, but is poor in resources and rich in unemployment. Southern Rhodesia is rent with racial strife because it refuses to grant equal representation to blacks, has received no independence date. Of the trio, Northern Rhodesia's future looks...