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Title:Dr. Banda's arrest and release from detention, 1959-1960
Author:Baker, ColinISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:The Society of Malawi Journal
Volume:49
Issue:3
Pages:1-14
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Malawi
Central Africa
Subjects:politicians
offences against national security
History, Archaeology
history
political science
Banda, H. Kamuzu (Hastings Kamuzu), 1905-1997
About person:Hastings Kamuzu Banda (ca1906-1997)ISNI
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778944
Abstract:Just after midnight, on 3 March 1959, Sir Robert Armitage, the Governor of Nyasaland (present-day Malawi), declared a state of emergency and proscribed the Nyasaland African Congress, Congress Youth League and the Congress Women's League. Leaders, including Dr Banda, the president-general, who had returned to Nyasaland only eight months earlier after an absence of over forty years, were arrested and placed in detention. The author gives an account of the minutiae involved both in Dr Banda's arrest and his release, thirteen months later, on 1 April 1960. Notes, ref.
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