Devlin Commission of Enquiry, Nyasaland 1959

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Devlin Commission of Enquiry, Nyasaland 1959

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb193-dev

3 boxes, 25 files

York University, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

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SNAC Resource ID: 6288868

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Banda, Hastings Kamuzu, 1905-1997

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Chiume Kamyama fl 1959

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Chipembere Henry fl 1959

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Nkomo, Joshua, 1917-1999

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Joshua Nkomo (b. June 19, 1917, Zimbabwe–d. July 1, 1999, Harare, Zimbabwe) was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Vice President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 1999. He was leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) party, and a member of the Ndebele people (Kalanga). He was a trades-union leader, who became president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government. After his release, ZAPU contributed to the fal...

Kellock, Thomas Oslaf, fl 1959

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The Commission of Enquiry, under the chairmanship of Lord Devlin, was appointed in 1959, after African opposition to the Central African Federation culminated in widespread disturbances in Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A state of emergency had been declared and 600 members of the Nyasaland African Congress detained. The Commission's findings were extremely unfavourable to the Nyasaland Government, and its report helped to convince the British Government of the unacceptability of the Federation to the ...