Word: nyasaland
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...pamphlet put out by the tourist office called it "Nyasaland-Darkest Africa in Fairest Mood." But in this fair spot last week the mood could not have been darker. Each day the upland country of clear lakes, sun-splashed valleys and misty mountaintops saw fresh upheavals, and the violence echoed beyond its borders. Not since Britain in 1953 merged Nyasaland with the two Rhodesias-forming a Central African Federation larger than California, Texas and New York combined-has there been such turmoil. And it seemed to be only beginning...
Ironically, Nyasaland, poorest of the federation's three territories, has the most to gain from the union. It has the smallest (8,000) white minority, all but lost among 2,700,000 blacks. Last July the demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda returned from self-imposed, 40-year exile to cry "To hell with federation" and proclaim himself "extremist of the extremists." Before his oratory, moderate African leaders fell back...
...Hastings Banda, 53, Nyasaland's fanatical rabble-rouser who last July, having practiced medicine in London and Ghana, returned home after 41 years of 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...
Englishman, Go Now! The tension began when Dr. Hastings Banda, the fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general...
Whites in Salisbury were distressed by the recent bloody riots in the Belgian Congo; last week they found troubles closer to home in Nyasaland. There, when police in the capital city of Zomba tried to break up an illegal parade in honor of the ubiquitous Dr. Banda, a riot broke out in which cars, shops and offices were stoned. In Salisbury, something sprang up called the European National Congress, dedicated to "the unity of the white race in all Africa in the face of the rising tide of black nationalism...