Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Rhodesia's underpaid black miners recently struck back at their startled employers with a 20th century weapon: a strike that lasted for months...
...Southern Rhodesia is a settler's colony, poised on the threshold of industrialism. Population: 150,000 whites; 2,000,000 Bantus (mostly Matabeles and Mashonas). Last week the British government formally agreed to federate it with the copper-rich protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and neighboring Nyasaland...
...vision: to build in Central Africa "a virile British state" which will "preserve Africa for the Empire and the British way of life." A wiry little surgeon who left his home in London in 1911, Sir Godfrey is Prime Minister of the self-governing British Colony of Southern Rhodesia. His plan is to federate Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The three territories would form a 475,000square-mile Central African Federation which might one day become Britain's eighth Dominion...
Where Fronts Meet. Last week, at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, the Huggins scheme was-earnestly debated. There were good arguments for federation: copper-rich Northern Rhodesia needs Southern Rhodesia's coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes is the fact that Britain's East African empire is in danger of being submerged. "A Black Front," he says, "is advancing from [the Gold Coast]; a White Front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south." Without federation, he told the conference, "the Rhodesias will become the clashing...
...dressed for the occasion, with headdresses of beads or feathers, clanking bracelets and earrings, and costume jewelry made of bones, shells, bells, animal horns and beer-bottle tops. Officially constituting the African Dingaka Association, they were the witch doctors from the Union of South Africa and their cousins from Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland...