3RD FEBRUARY IN THE HISTORY OF MALAWI.

The official narrative indicates that Nyasaland’s freedom fighter John Chilembwe was shot dead on 3rd February 1915 in Mulanje as he fled to Mozambique. In October 2023, a digitised archival material was posted on social media by a historian at Lane College in Tennessee (USA) called Dr. Azaria Mbughuni. This archival material is a marriage […]

History of Labour Day in Malawi

Part 2 of 3 The socio-economic impacts of the IMF/World Bank-sponsored Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), which the Government of Malawi started to implement in 1980, coupled with a wind of political change across Africa upon the end of the Cold War, provided fertile ground for the rejuvenation of vibrant trade unionism in Malawi. The immediate […]

THE HISTORY OF LABOUR DAY IN MALAWI: How trade unions started

The history of organized labour in Malawi goes back as far as 1945 when the first trade union or workers’ organisation, the Transport and General Workers Union, initially called Magalimoto , was set up by two truck drivers cum politicians by the names of *Lawrence Makata* and *Lali Lubani.* A few years later, the following […]

PRESENTATION ON MEDIA LANDSCAPE IN MALAWI (1964-1994)

On 2 March 2023, the Lost History Foundation delivered a presentation on the media landscape in Malawi (1964-1994) to media students at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). The full presentation can be accessed by clicking here.

A MAN CALLED JAMES SANGALA THE FIRST

He was a renowned freedom fighter in Nyasaland and co-founder of the first political party in 1944 called the Nyasaland African Congress. The MK 100 note bears his face. His name was James Sangala the first . He was also a prominent figure in football administration. In 1938, together with the District Commissioner for Blantyre […]