Word: malawi
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...outgoing Prime Minister Welensky muttered his misgivings, death came to the federation on New Year's Eve. Next day at noon, 2,000 Africans gathered for a mock funeral. Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, boss of Nyasaland's Malawi Congress Party, told his cheering supporters, "I mean to rule. I shall allow no stupid fool to destroy what I've built up. If to do this is to be a dictator, make the most of it!" Then his followers set fire to a coffin representing the federation and the ashes were thrown into the Shire River, which...
Nyasaland, an undeveloped, land-locked country of 3 million people and 45,000 square miles, is located in eastern Africa southwest of Tanganyika. After independence, it will be called Malawi...
...Banda, cofounder and secretary general of the Malawi Congress Party, the ruling party in Nyasaland, will speak on his country's future at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Tonkens Room of Winthrop House...
...seemed about to dissolve. In Northern Rhodesia, the solvent was made up of rioting, strikes and demonstrations that have cost a dozen lives this month. In Nyasaland, the solvent was fiery Dr. Hastings Banda, 56, U.S.-educated (University of Chicago, Nashville's Meharry Medical College) leader of the Malawi Congress Party...
...sleek Mercedes, victorious Dr. Banda drove through cheering crowds to the $28,000 house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers...