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| 1957 |
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| The Constitutional Party was founded in Northern Rhodesia. In the next year, the Zambian African Congress Party was founded. | 1 |
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| 1958 |
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| Hastings Banda returned to Nyasaland and became president of Nyasaland African Congress. | 2 |
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| 1959 |
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| A state of emergency was declared in Nyasaland. Banda was arrested in Southern Rhodesia, and the Malawi Congress Party was formed to replace the banned Nyasaland African Congress (NAC). | 3 |
| Tshkedi Khama, regent of the Ngwato people and leader of the nationalist opposition in Bechuanaland (Botswana), died, leading to the accession of his nephew Seretse Khama, who later became the first president of independent Botswana. | 4 |
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| 1998, Oct. 21 |
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| Zimbabwe involved itself in the Congo civil war by sending 11,000 troops to support Pres. Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (See 1998, Oct. 21). | 5 |
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| Nov. 4–18 |
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| Riots and protests led by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) shut down almost all of Zimbabwe's business and industry; citizens objected to Pres. Robert Gabriel Mugabe's handling of the economy, his controversial land redistribution program, and his costly military commitment to the Congo civil war. | 6 |
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