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Nov 23, 2021 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
So about Kamuzu Banda and his crocodile Act,Let me tell you a story of a man who saw his colleagues being fed to crocodiles.His name was George Banda a teacher at Mary Mount in Mzuzu. He was a graduate from Chancellor College. In 1988 he was picked by the authorities who took
Him from mzuzu to Blantyre.He did not know where they were taking him to.The authorities finally took him to Stella Maris MYP Base where he found thousands of people.He saw some familiar faces he had known since his college days at Chancellor College. One of them was Kumwenda.
Sep 25, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PEOPLE WHO INFLICTED FEAR AND TERROR IN MALAWI.
Leading members of Malawi Congress Party have been recorded calling for the deaths of the country’s Roman Catholic bishops who urged the government to respect human rights early in March 1992. Thread
Through the pastoral letter.Tape-recordings of a meeting of the Malawi Congress Party held soon after the bishops issued a pastoral letter in March have been smuggled out of the country and independently verified.
Sep 21, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
BIBI KULUUNDA THE YAO QUEEN (NYASALAND QUEEN )
Bibi Kuluunda was born in 1840 in Mwembe Mocambique near a hill called Yao, where the name of the Yao is derived from.Bibi means sister in Swahili. Bibi Kuluunda was a sister of Makanjira who was also a Yao chief #History
Together they spent the first half of 1890s fighting the colonial forces under Captain Maguire and Sir Harry Johnstone.Infact their hostilities with the colonial govt started in 1887 when Bibi Kuluunda and Makanjira arrested John Buchanan,
May 17, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
*SAM MPASU 1945 to 2018*
Sam Mpasu was a Malawian politician, author, and former diplomat. He served as Minister of Commerce, Secretary General of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1999, and speaker of the Malawi National Assembly. #thread
Mpasu was a student at Dedza secondary school and went to University of Malawi's Chancellor College.Mpasu served as a diplomat in the foreign service for the Malawi mission to Germany.While in Germany he wrote a book in 1975 entitled Nobody's Friend.
Mar 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Drake Thadzi was born November 23, 1964 in Lilongwe is a 6'1 light heavyweight retired boxer from Malawi , who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California .Nicknamed nightmare. #Thread
There he was decisioned in the second round of competition in the light heavyweight division (– 81 kg) by Algeria 's eventual bronze medalist Mustapha Moussa.
Soon afterwards Thadzi turned professional, before retiring in 1998 after a loss against Dariusz Michalczewski
Feb 25, 2020 • 35 tweets • 7 min read
The LIFE of CECILE KADZAMIRA : Power And Terror.
Cecilia started her relationship with Dr Banda when she was only 21,,, a nursing intern, and Dr Banda was 63 at Banda's Yiannakis Clinic Limbe where he opened his personal practice.
After the 1961 General Elections, when Dr Banda became the head of the native Government.Cecilia Kadzamira started her trade to study her environment and take advantage of it.Cecilia as the Personal Secretary of Dr Banda knew all the affairs of everyone in Govt working for Dr..
Feb 19, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Born Ryson Webster Thom in the southern tea-growing district of Thyolo in 1934, the schoolmaster's son adopted the more African name of Bingu Mutharika during the 1960s when pan-Africanism was sweeping across the continent. #Thread
He later added the prefix 'wa' between his names to disguise his identity from Mr Banda's state security, who were hunting down his opponents around the world.
In 1992 he became a founding member of the then underground political pressure group, the United Democratic Front (UDF)
Feb 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Lt. Col James Njoloma and his mutiny.
In 1995 Lt. Col James Njoloma organised a few soldiers to topple Bakili Muluzi. He was betrayed by fellow soldiers who alerted the authorities. #Thread #power
Lt. Col James Njoloma and his accomplices went AWOL which led to the biggest police manhunt in Nyasaland since the 1915 Uprising.
Ironically, Lt. Col James Njoloma's grandfather George Njoloma was raised by John Chilembwe.
Jan 28, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Malawi’s Matyr Dr. Attati Mpakati.Perhaps a brief contextual background would be necessary before zeroing in to portray what really Dr. Attati Mpakati represents as far as the history of Malawi is concerned. #Threads
Dr. Attati Mpakati was a charismatic and fearless leader of the Socialist League of Malawi (LESOMA) a political movement founded by exiled Malawians.Ladies and Gentlemen, we are all aware that, Malawi was a country where silence ruled.
Jan 23, 2020 • 35 tweets • 9 min read
Murray William Kanyama Chiume was by no means a political midget. He was a true African nationalist leader who not onlyassisted in the liberation of Nyasaland form colonial oppression, but was a friend of many African leaders who shared the same freedom aspirations to his own.
His relationship with Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, whose parents some believe came from Nkhata Bay before settling in Kasungu, making the two vitual “homeboys” was to say the least a father and son relationship.
Jan 21, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Masauko Chipembere malawi’s premier nationalist, came to Harvard in the early 1970s as an exile, to write his autobiography and the biography of a freedom struggle in Africa that had not been concluded. Although the architect of Malawi’s 1964 independence #Thread
He had been unceremoniously hounded out of his country in 1965 by the autocrat he had mistakenly summoned home to lead the anti-colonial battle. Chipembere never saw his country again, dying young of complications from diabetes.
Jan 18, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Malawi has a rich political history which deserve to be given a proper place in our nation history. Giving maximum attention preferred events denies Malawians knowledge of who their heroes are. #Threads#Africa#africanbiohub
It is critical especially to the younger generation to understand in detail the route map to our political independence that will instil "national pride ".The contributions made by deserving Malawians like Orton Edgar Ching’oli Chirwa,Levi Ziliro, Isa Lawrence,