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Kamuzu Day and Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting

May 22, 2013 By Elliot Ross 7 Comments

*By Jimmy Kainja* Last week we had a public holiday in Malawi. May 14 is “Kamuzu Day,” when the nation celebrates the life of its founding president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda whose autocratic rule lasted between 1964 and 1994. The day has been there since Kamuzu’s reign, during which it was celebrated as his birthday. This despite […]

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Filed Under: FEATURED, HISTORY, MEDIA, OPINION, POLITICS Tagged With: Bakili Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Dunduzu Chisza, Henry Masauko Chipembere, John Tembo, Joyce Banda, Kamuzu Banda, Kamuzu Day, Kanyama Chiume, Malawi, Rose Chibambo, Yatuta Chisiza

Legson Kayira, the first Malawian novelist, has died

October 17, 2012 By Elliot Ross 9 Comments

Malawi had three first novelists: David Rubadiri, Aubrey Kachingwe, and Legson Kayira, who has died this week in London aged 70. In the 1960s and 1970s Kayira wrote a number of works of fiction, but he will be remembered most of all for his 1965 memoir, I Will Try, an account of the astonishing journey he […]

Filed Under: BOOKS, FEATURED, HISTORY Tagged With: Aubrey Kachingwe, David Livingstone, David Rubadiri, I Will Try, Kamuzu Banda, Legson Kayira, Malawi, Skagit Valley College

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