Word: nyasaland
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed the Mountains of the Moon, established Kenya Colony and Uganda Protectorate. Farther south, other Britons followed Rhodes, carved out Northern and Southern Rhodesia in his name, and planted the Union Jack in a dozen native kingdoms, e.g., Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Nyasaland...
Last week, to safeguard its hold on the remaining British Africa, Britain's Colonial Office took two big conciliatory steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories would form a 475,000 sq. mi. Central African Federation, which might one day become Britain's eighth dominion...
...House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines of Northern Rhodesia...