With his Homburg hats, his three-piece English-style suits, and his lion-tail fly whisk, Hastings Kamuzu Banda was one of the oddest dictators in African history. He banned women from wearing trousers ...

The white-dominated Central African Federation—made up of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia—last week seemed about to dissolve. In Northern Rhodesia, the solvent was made up of rioting, ...

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 ...

An unofficial sample of Malawians shows some consider the first president of the country to be Africa’s most influential leader of the past 50 years. VOA English to Africa reporter Eldson Chagara ...

Kamuzu Day commemorations in Lilongwe have sparked controversy after the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was accused of shifting ...

MALAWI LETTER:The exclusive Kamazu Academy is Hastings Banda's legacy to education, but the grind of tough, poor Africa is just outside its walls IN THE shade of Lilongwe’s vast new parliament ...