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Title: | Reminiscences of my detention, 1959-1960 |
Author: | Mwasi, Edward D. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
Volume: | 59 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 40-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Malawi Central Africa |
Subjects: | political prisoners colonial history biographies (form) Biography, Obituaries autobiography Detention of persons Reminiscing Mwasi, Edward D. |
About person: | Edward D. Mwasi |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779214 |
Abstract: | For nearly six years since the imposition of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi) in 1953, the people of Nyasaland had in vain protested against the inclusion of Nyasaland in the federation. After his return to Nyasaland in 1958, Dr. Banda campaigned against the federation by holding rallies throughout the country. By 1959 the country had become ungovernable and the Governor of Nyasaland declared a state of emergency. Over 1300 Malawians were arrested and detained. The author, then an Education Officer in Lilongwe, was one of them. He tells the story of his arrest and his stay in Kanjedza detention camp where, as a representative of the detainees, he was interviewed by a British commission of enquiry into the circumstances that led to the declaration of the state of emergency (the Devlin Commission). He was released in 1960. [ASC Leiden abstract] |