nyasaland

In Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi) calls for independence (by ANC, NAC, etc.) was met with crackdown by the white Rhodesian army (who ruled south Rhodesia post independence with apartheid).

The company increased their efforts to colonise the region one year later, when colonialist Harry Johnson took over the administration of Nyasaland as commissioner of the British government and an employee of the British South African Company.

With no northern limit, Rhodes hoped to use the gold fields of Mashonaland to fund the settlement of other areas of central Africa such as Nyasaland (present-day Malawi), and to facilitate his ambition of building a railway linking the colonies from Cape to Cairo.