BLANTYRE, Malawi — The picture of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda was on every bill and coin in the pockets of the 1,000 people who had gathered in front of Malawi’s High Court last week. His name — Kamuzu ...
Malawi’s deep-rooted poverty is not some tragic accident of geography or a lingering colonial curse. It is the deliberate and devastating legacy of one man—Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. The so-called ...
Voting in Malawi spilled into a second day on Wednesday after riots sparked by the late opening of polls marred an election seen as a test of President Joyce Banda's scandal-tainted rule. Voting in ...
With passion and resolve, President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera delivered a stirring address during Kamuzu Day celebrations, declaring his mission to restore what Malawi's founding president, Dr.
Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, the Prime Minister of Nyasaland, said last night that after independence next July his African country will steer a moderate course between Left and Right at home and East and ...
Today, the flags fly high, the politicians speak with affected reverence, and school children sing songs of national pride. It’s Kamuzu Day in Malawi—a public holiday dedicated to celebrating the life ...
HE LOOKED like an eccentric version of the typical African dictator: he proclaimed himself president for life, locked up his opponents, lived royally in a poor country, carried a fly whisk and went to ...