Word: nyasaland
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...year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black and white extremes. In next month's general election, Huggins is virtually certain to be confirmed as the first Prime Minister, but his United Party, which is almost exclusively British, faces powerful opposition from...
...tree-lined Southern Rhodesian capital of Salisbury (pop. 53,000), jovial Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, was sworn in last week as Prime Minister of British Central Africa, the brand-new federation of the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. Sir Godfrey adjusted his spectacles, tuned in his hearing aid and almost shouted his oath of allegiance to the Crown. For Sir Godfrey, a lively and sure-handed surgeon with a flair for colonial politics, a 30-year dream had come true...
...years as Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister, he badgered London for a federation of the three colonies. Northern Rhodesia, rich in copper, needed Southern Rhodesia's coal; both colonies needed Nyasaland's ample supply of African labor. "A black front is advancing from the Gold Coast, a white front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south," he explained. He believed that the federation would save Central Africa from becoming "the clashing point of those two fronts...
...Prime Minister (who also assumed the posts of Defense, Finance and External Affairs), the Federation was in business-and already beset by disquieting signs of the racial clash it was supposed to forestall. Fearful that Federation would open the door to a flood of land-grabbing whites, Nyasaland's African tribes were kicking up trouble (TIME, Sept. 14). Last week angry crowds assaulted some of Sir Godfrey's Nyasaland tax collectors and chased some of the pro-Federation tribal chieftains into the bush. Beyond the crocodile-infested Shire River, a white district commissioner and his family were...
...Chifwamba." The Congress, dedicated to passive resistance, was almost as surprised as the authorities by the violence in Nguru land. But it was quick to capitalize on the trouble to press its own campaign against federation. Its leader is 43-year-old Hastings Banda, who left Nyasaland 21 years ago, got a U.S. education (University of Chicago), makes his home in London's Buckingham Palace Road but keeps in close touch with Ny-asaland's native politicians. Most of the chieftains back Banda's Congress (those who don't are being deposed, like the headman...