Nyasaland Emergency 1959 sources, including Special Branch reports, and the recollections of expatriates, and the reduction of African leaders to stereotypes. Nyasaland Emergency 1959 The Nyasaland Emergency 1959 was a state of emergency in the protectorate of Nyasaland (now Malawi), which was declared by its governor, Sir Robert Armitage on 3 March 1959 and which ended on 16 June 1960. Under the emergency powers that operated during the Emergency, over 1,300 members or supporters of the Nyasaland African Congress (Congress) were detained without trial, and most of the party's leaders including its president, Dr. Hastings Banda, were imprisoned in Southern Rhodesia after being
Nation of Yahweh Nation of Yahweh The Nation of Yahweh is a predominantly African American offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites religious movement and was founded in 1979 in Miami by Hulon Mitchell Jr., who went by the name Yahweh ben Yahweh.. It has been labeled a hate group. Its goal is to move African Americans, whom they see as the original Israelites, to Israel. The group accepts Yahweh ben Yahweh as the Son of God. In this way, its beliefs are unique and distinct from that of other known Black Hebrew Israelite groups. It founder was involved in a number of legal