Nyasaland - name given in 1910 to what had previously been known as the British Central Africa Protectorate, today we know it as Malawi.
In 1953 Nyasaland ceased being a discrete colony to became part of what was known as the Rhodesian (or Central African) Federation. The Federation was dissolved a decade later, shortly before the creation of the newly independent republics of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.
Lord Blake, an Oxford based historian, said of the Federation "[it is] one of the most elaborately governed countries in the world." Which rather begs the [rhetorical] question: if Britain could create such a thing, how come it's never been comfortable as a member of the European equivalent
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