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There is very little on the British Central African Protectorate, but an article of that name has five paras which would be relevant here and could perhaps be moved. Apart from the independence movement and the Federation there is very little on Nyasaland here or anwhere else and that could be moved here, and some detail ought to be added.
There were redirects for Nyasaland and Nyasaland Protectorate which went to the Malawi page but I have edited them to here, History of Malawi. Rexparry sydney 02:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Devlin and Armitage Reports

Perhaps something should be added about these - produced in 1959 regarding British police methods there. I don't know enough about it to do it myself. Malick78 11:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC) reply

the article says "Banda was one of the very few post-colonial African leaders to maintain diplomatic relations with apartheid South Africa" and the article on Banda says "He was also the only African ruler to establish diplomatic ties with South Africa during apartheid." If there were other African leaders to maintain relations, who were they? Or is the signifant difference between maintaining and establishing? thanks Richardson mcphillips1 ( talk) 18:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC) reply

Good question. The Foreign relations of South Africa article says:

During the apartheid era, South Africa was diplomatically shunned by the vast majority of African nations, with notable exceptions being Malawi and Ivory Coast.

I'm guessing that Ivory Coast maintained the diplomatic relations that the French had had. The Malawi case must be more significant as it is in southern as opposed to western Africa. Itsmejudith ( talk) 11:28, 30 November 2007 (UTC) reply

The section on the Maravi Empire has more lines than the main article itself... -- Againme ( talk) 11:52, 24 October 2009 (UTC) reply

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The section on the Ayao is very interesting but lacks any detailed references. It seems to be more like a personal essay and definitely isn't written from a neutral point of view. Much is said about the wearing of long robes and kofias and other marks of civilisation, whereas no word of criticism is given of the appalling human rights abuse carried out by the Yao slavers and of tens of thousands of slaves marched in appalling conditions to the coast every year by the Jumbe of Nkhotakota. Something should be said on both sides, I think, good and bad. Although it is a point well made that that the history of Islam has been more or less ignored in accounts of Malawi up to now, yet this essay is clearly written from a pro-Muslim point of view.

Moreover not only this section but the whole article lacks references. Only three footnotes are given, two of which are to newspaper articles, and only one to a serious academic work. In a serious historical article each statement should be referenced with source and page number. An example is the article Cabinet Crisis of 1964 in Malawi, which has 87 references and a bibliography of 15 well-researched academic works. Here, although the topic is much larger, only three books are mentioned in the bibliography and two more in the text (none of them with dates or publishers); surely there are far more to be found on the history of Malawi than that. Kanjuzi ( talk) 04:36, 6 November 2017 (UTC) reply

What is the history 105.0.0.101 ( talk) 06:24, 11 August 2022 (UTC) reply