evidence: The territory was defined as British Central Africa in 1890. When the first explorers arrived in what is now Malawi, they were told by the local inhabitants that the big lake was called 'Nyasa'. So the lake was christened Lake Nyasa - which it will not surprise you to learn means ' [...] A British Protectorate was declared over the 'Nyasaland Districts' (i.e. present day Malawi) on 15 May 1891. In 1893 the territory was renamed the British Central Africa Protectorate. By the Nyasaland Order in Council, dated 06 July 1907, the name of the territory was changed again, this time to the Nyasaland Protectorate and Legislative and Executive Councils were established and a Governor was appointed in the place of the former Commissioner. The first Legislative Council met on 04 September 1907. [...] Nyasaland became the independent state of Malawi on 06 July 1964 and Northern