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The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also called Central African Federation, was created in 1953 and embraced the colony of Southern Rhodesia (later Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe) and the territories of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland now Malawi).
The Federation was dissolved on 31 December 1963, and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland
gained independence in 1964 as Zambia
and Malawi
respectively.
Mark Sensen, 12 Apr 1997
The idea of a federation (or amalgamation as it was then called) between the British territories in central Africa was first mooted after World War I, but it was only after World War II that the idea was pursued more vigorously. Arguments in favour of federation were led by the Europeans in Southern Rhodesia on the premise of forming a large and powerful economic unit in central Africa. At a time when African nationalism was beginning to emer