Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

[ fed-uh-rey-shuhn uhv roh-dee-zhuh uhn nyah-suh-land, nahy-as-uh-land ]

noun

1. a former grouping of British territories in southern Africa for administrative purposes (1953–63): composed of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

noun

1. a federation (1953–63) of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland

Example Sentences

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved at the end of 1963 and, a month later, Kaunda was elected prime minister of Northern Rhodesia.

From BBC

In 1953 he became the general secretary of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress but the organisation failed to mobilise black Africans against the white-ruled Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

From BBC

The archbishop's  office said he archbishop would visit with clergy and congregants in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia — three countries that, in the British colonial era, made up the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and are part of the Anglican Church's Province of Central Africa.

From New York Times

Said Sir Roy Welensky, former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "The world will be watching the outcome of this trial."

From Time Magazine Archive

Central Africa's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland proclaims "racial partnership" as its official policy, but unofficially the color bar is so rigid that Indian and Pakistani diplomats are continually turned away from movie theaters, liquor stores, hotels and restaurants-even when they are guests of whites.

From Time Magazine Archive