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Legson Kayira was born in Karonga, Nyasaland (pop. 200) anywhere from 18 to 22 years ago ("Mother says only, 'You were born when people were harvesting' "). After eleven years of schooling, he formed an ambition: "We have 3,000,000 people in Nyasaland and only 22 university graduates. Nobody has ever earned a degree from an American college. I want to be the first...
...Karonga a mob armed with stones and clubs swept onto the airfield, burned down a building, stormed a jail and released 13 prisoners. In rapid succession trouble flared in Livingstonia and at Mzim-ba. At first the Nyasa government minimized the outbreaks, but Federal Prime Minister Welensky did not. "We have adequate forces," said he, "and we will not hesitate to use them...
Barrels & Boulders. Into Blantyre he sent four Dakota DC-3 planes carrying troops from the white Royal Rhodesia Regiment; two battalions of the black King's African Rifles soon followed. After one plane landed at Fort Hill, near Karonga, the nationalists covered the airfield with barrels, stumps and boulders, effectively putting it out of action. In Blantyre police and rioters collided in the streets, and blacks, hiding in the tall grass along a stretch of road that was promptly tagged the Missile Mile, ambushed and stoned cars. At Lilongwe the King's African Rifles fired on a crowd...