Hastings Banda

Hastings Banda (1906 – 1997), full name Hastings Kamuzu Banda, was Malawi political leader. He was leader of the Malawi African Congress; minister of national resources (1961); prime minister (1963); president of the Malawi republic (formerly Nyasaland) (1966); and life president (1971) whose early liberalism has increasingly given way to totalitarianism.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I wish I could bring Stonehenge to Nyasaland to show there was a time when Britain had a savage culture.

Leo Durocher