ABSTRACT
Nyasaland, or the Nyasaland Protectorate was bounded by Tanganyika to the northeast, Mozambique to the southeast, south, and southwest, and Northern Rhodesia to the west. Nyasaland was under the administration of the British South Africa Company when Sir Harry H. Johnston took over its administration in 1890. The protestations were channeled through the African (“Native”) Associations, most of which were formed in the 1920s. Besides the Associations, educated individuals voiced their opposition to miscegenation in Nyasaland by writing about it. The most vocal of the critics of miscegenation in Nyasaland was George Simeon Mwase. African elites in Nyasaland were also concerned about the mistreatment of African women who engaged in liaisons with European men. The 1934 census of persons of mixed race in Nyasaland indicates their numbers as follows: Those under five years of age born of European and African mothers numbered 122, and those from five years to marriageable age numbered 166.
