Also called the Central African Federation: a semi-autonomous British colonial federation joining self-governing Southern Rhodesia with the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, created to balance settler and African political interests but dissolved amid African nationalist opposition and the three territories' separate paths to independence.
Dissolved on 31 December 1963 after years of African nationalist opposition (notably from Hastings Banda in Nyasaland and Kenneth Kaunda in Northern Rhodesia); its three territories became independent Malawi (1964), Zambia (1964), and continued as Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia.
Scholarly account of Southern Rhodesia's role in and the collapse of the Federation, written by a contemporary historian with direct access to the period.