ABSTRACT
Malawi, formerly Nyasaland, stands in sharp contrast to Rhodesia and Zambia. It is small, mountainous and well watered and is densely populated. Its African population of 3 million is larger than that of Zambia. It has few natural resources other than the crops it can grow. The dual nature of the farming economy, emphasised in Rhodesia and Zambia, is again apparent in Malawi. Malawi has very little manufacturing industry, as yet, to offer employment to its surplus population—only 160,000 of Malawi’s 4 million people are in paid employment. Four and a half centuries ago the Portuguese came to Mocambique, but it is only in the last fifty years that this territory of 302,300 sq. miles has emerged from a history of neglect and stagnation. Mocambique’s period of modern growth stems from the construction of railways across the territory to link her eastern neighbours with the ports of Beira and Lourenco Marques.
