Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

American  

[fed-uh-rey-shuhn uhv roh-dee-zhuh uhn nyah-suh-land, nahy-as-uh-land] / ˌfɛd əˈreɪ ʃən əv roʊˈdi ʒə ən ˈnyɑ səˌlænd, naɪˈæs əˌlænd /

noun

1. a former grouping of British territories in southern Africa for administrative purposes (1953–63): composed of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland British  

noun

1. a federation (1953–63) of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland

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Example Sentences

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved at the end of 1963 and, a month later, Kaunda was elected prime minister of Northern Rhodesia.

From BBC

In 1953 he became the general secretary of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress but the organisation failed to mobilise black Africans against the white-ruled Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

From BBC

The archbishop's  office said he archbishop would visit with clergy and congregants in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia — three countries that, in the British colonial era, made up the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and are part of the Anglican Church's Province of Central Africa.

From New York Times

Said Sir Roy Welensky, former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "The world will be watching the outcome of this trial."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Roy Welensky, 53, is a burly former prizefighter and locomotive engineer who in 1956 became Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a landlocked prairie nation almost twice the size of Texas, whose existence is in such peril that two of its three federated territories are in an official state of emergency.

From Time Magazine Archive