The white-dominated Central African Federationmade up of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesialast week 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.
At issue was the election of a legislative council to "advise" the British on governing Nyasaland's 9,000 Europeans, 12,000 Asians and 2,780,000 Africans. Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who had helped jail Banda two years ago on...
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