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The Administrative Service of Malawi — a Case Study in Africanisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Colin Baker
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Malawi has her origins, as a separate state, in the British Central Africa Protectorate, declared in 1891 to prevent the Portuguese from claiming the Lake Malawi region. In 1907 the Protectorate was renamed Nyasaland, a title which was retained until independence in 1964. It is with the few years before independence, and the eight years since, that this article is concerned, and it deals with the Africanisation of the Administrative Service during this period.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 543 - 560
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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Page 544 note 2 Nyasaland Government, Staff List, 1958 (Zomba), p. 73.Google Scholar

Page 544 note 3 Ibid. 1960, p. 51.

Page 544 note 4 Nyasaland, , Legislative Council Proceedings (Zomba), 75th Session, 1st Meeting, 07 1960, p. 6.Google Scholar

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Page 545 note 1 Ibid. p. 8.

Page 545 note 2 Ibid. pp. 47–52.

Page 545 note 3 Nyasatand: Report for the Year, 1960 (London, 1961), p. 102.Google Scholar

Page 546 note 1 For example, in an Open Letter to Civil Servants, dated 25 February 1963; Legislative Council Proceedings, 76th Session, 7th Meeting, 03 1963, p. 590Google Scholar; Proceedings of Parliament (Zomba), 3rd Session, 4th Meeting, 01 1966, p. 452Google Scholar; ibid. 6th Session, 1st Meeting, October 1968, pp. 113–14; and ibid. 8th Session, 1st Meeting, July 1971, p. 22.

Page 546 note 2 The dislike of politicians for the post of Secretary for African Affairs had been expressed several years previously; e.g. Legislative Council Proceedings, 72nd Session, 3rd Meeting, 03 1958, p. 29Google Scholar, and 73rd Session, 1st Meeting, July 1958, p. 160.

Page 546 note 3 Ibid. 76th Session, 10th Meeting, Desember 1963, p. 1008.

Page 547 note 1 Sources: Staff List, 1960, and subsequent years until 1971; figures for 1972 have been calculated from the Malawi Government Gazette (Zomba), up to 1 05 1972Google Scholar. Key: M = Malawian Officers, E = Expatriate Officers, and A=All Officers.

Page 547 note 2 Legislative Council Proceedings, 76th Session, 6th Meeting, 10 1962, p. 491.Google Scholar

Page 548 note 1 Source: Staff List, 1962 and 1965 – no List was published for 1963 or 1964.

Page 549 note 1 Proceedings of Parliament, 5th Session, 2nd Meeting, 12 1967, p. 182.Google Scholar

Page 549 note 2 Bennion, M. J., ‘Training for Localization of the Public Service in Malawi’, in Journal of Local Administration Overseas (London), v, I, 01 1966, p. 25.Google Scholar

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Page 552 note 1 Source: Staff Lists, 1960–1971.

Page 553 note 1 Source: Staff Lists, 1960–1971

Page 553 note 2 Source: ibid.

Page 554 note 1 Sources: same as for Table I. Key: a = officers with university degrees or professional qualifications; b = officers who successfully completed Staff Training College courses – or who hold an equivalent diploma; and c = other officers.

Page 555 note 1 Second Report, 1970, from the Select Committee on Public Accounts for the Year ending 31st December 1968 (Zomba, 1970), p. I.Google Scholar

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Page 556 note 1 Source: Staff Lists, 1960–1971.

Page 556 note 2 Proceedings of Parliament, 5th Session, 1st Meeting, 10 1967, p. III.Google Scholar

Page 557 note 1 The year 1965 has been selected because this was the first time that the published Staff List contained a significant number of Malawian members of the Administrative Service.

Page 557 note 2 Legislative Council Proceedings, 76th Session, 7th Meeting, 03 1963, p. 554.Google Scholar

Page 557 note 3 Ibid. 76th Session, 8th Meeting, July 1963, pp. 756 and 759.

Page 557 note 4 Proceedings of Parliament, 1st Session, 2nd Meeting, 09 1964, p. 14.Google Scholar

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Page 558 note 2 Ibid. p. 745.

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Page 558 note 6 Ibid. 6th Session, 1st Meeting, October 1968, p. 114.

Page 558 note 7 Ibid. p. 102.

Page 558 note 8 Ibid. 7th Session, 2nd Meeting, March 1970, p. 303.

Page 559 note 1 Sources: same as for Table I.

Page 559 note 2 Proceedings of Parliament, 5th Session, 5th Meeting, 06 1968, p. 557.Google Scholar

Page 559 note 3 Malawi Times (Blantyre), 15 07 1971.Google Scholar

Page 559 note 4 The Times of Zambia (Ndola), 6 01 1972.Google Scholar

Page 560 note 1 Malawi Government Gazette, 1971, passim.