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...upon and gave expression to ideas and principles which have been recognized and maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real as it was in pre-Montfort England...
...WILL TRY, by Legson Kayira. A youthful African from the Malawi Republic (formerly Nyasaland), the author decided in 1958 to "walk" from his home to the U.S. to find freedom and an education. Nearly two years later, he made it to a junior college in Washington State. He tells of his odyssey with warmth and a sense of wonder that many more practiced writers would be hard put to match...
...nobody was listening. A Rhodesian government White Paper issued just before the elections scoffed at the prospect of economic depression, threatened to retaliate with economic sanctions against its independent Negro neighbors in Zambia and Malawi. A new warning by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning U.D.I. only added to Smith's strength, and by the time election day rolled around, there were few white Rhodesians who did not agree with the unofficial motto of the Smith machine: "We would rather go bust than black...
Pilgrim's Progress. Legson was born in the British colony of Nyasaland, now independent and known as Malawi. The first white man he ever saw was an elegant official marching behind a column of African tribesmen, commandeered to bear the white man's burden-notably the white man's wife, who was carried through Legson's impoverished village on a litter. He assumed that the strangers were gods...
...science major. In wide demand as a speaker, he was welcomed in Little Rock, segregated in Dallas. After four years in the U.S., he retains his love for the land of Lincoln-and for the land of his birth. After finishing his education, he intends to go home to Malawi and teach school and enter politics. "A salute to you, Malawi," he writes at the end of his book. "We have just begun...