Foreign News: DR. BANDA: Menace or Martyr?

In a pleasant-looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation? The man:

Early Life. Originally named Kamuzu (the little root) because a medicine man had cured his mother's barrenness with a root herb, he...

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