Central African Federation

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Central African Federation

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) another name for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

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Finally, the 'Central African Federation' broke apart in 1963, making Nyasaland a separate colony again.

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1963 - Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.

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The policy of partnership pursued in the Central African Federation has been exposed for what it is: the greatest political fraud of our times.

The 1959 Pan Africanist manifesto

In 1953 Malawi, then known as Nyasaland, became part of the semi-independent Central African Federation (CAF).

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Chapter 3 recalls the short-lived course of the Central African Federation (made up of the current nations of Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), one of the most important political issues of the 1950s (p.

British Missionaries and the End of Empire: East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1939-64

After Kenya, I was able to visit Southern Rhodesia, where I grilled the white prime minister of the Central African Federation, Sir Roy Welensky, on why he thought the Africans there were not fit to be allowed to rule themselves, despite the fact that Africans like them had been ruling themselves successfully in Ghana for a whole five years.

Our son: overnight, Obama has ensured that the situation in the world should change dramatically. Every black person in the world can now hold his or her head high, anywhere in the world, and without saying a word, proclaim to all and sundry, by gait and demeanour: "We are all truly equal." Cameron Duodu reports

Following his marriage to Nancy, he went to work in what was then the Central African Federation for the Rhodesia Herald at a time of much political unrest.