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Flashback: Independence of Nyasaland (Malawi) on July 6, 1964

Published:Thursday | May 11, 2023 | 10:52 PM
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Barbara Beavers, 20-year-old Clerk in the Ministry of Education.
Gertrude Lennon, 21-year-old textile factory machine operator.
Marjorie McLean, 22-year-old “Miss St. Ann”, Lab Technician at the Government Laboratory.
Millicent Hinds, 22, “Miss Yellow Cab”, Stenographer at the University of the West Indies
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Four of the finalists in the island-wide contest conducted by a public committee chosen by the Council for Afro-Jamaican Affairs, to mark the independence of Nyasaland (Malawi) on July 6, 1964.