Macmillan ya ba da jawabi a Cape Town, Afirka ta Kudu a watan Fabrairun 1960 inda ya yi magana game da "iska na canji da ke busawa ta wannan nahiyar". Macmillan ya so ya guje wa irin yakin mulkin mallaka da Faransa ke yi a Algeria, kuma a karkashin firaministansa ya ci gaba da hanzari. Ga yankuna uku da aka ba da 'yancin kai a cikin shekarun 1950 - Sudan, Gold Coast da Malaya - an kara kusan sau goma a wannan adadin a cikin shekarun 1960. An ba da sauran yankunan Birtaniya a Afirka, ban da mulkin mallaka na kudancin Rhodesia, duk an ba da' yancin kai a shekarar 1968. Janyewar Birtaniya daga kudanci da gabashin Afirka ba tsari ne na zaman lafiya ba. Gabatarwar mulkin mallaka na Kenya ta kasance ne ta hanyar tashin hankali na shekaru takwas na Mau Mau. A cikin Rhodesia, 1965 daga baya, Yarjejeniyar 'yancin kai ta White House ya haifar da yakin basasa wanda ya ƙare har zuwa shekarar 1979, inda Macmillan ya ba da jawabi ga Yarjejeniyar' yancin kai na sabuwar kasa ta Zimbabwe.
Cape Town, Afirka ta Kudu