The Lost History Foundation (LHF) has released a video documentary on the cabinet crisis of 1964. The content of the video documentary formed part of the deliberations at the seminar on the cabinet crisis of 1964 that was held at the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College on the 11th of September 2021. The video documentary…
The Seminar on Malawi’s cabinet crisis of 1964 was held on the 11th September 2021 at Chancellor College in Zomba. The keynote speaker was Prof. Happy Kayuni who gave a neutral overview of the cabinet crisis of 1964. Thereafter, the Executive Director of Lost History Foundation, Conleith Selenje chipped in to articulate a position in…
By Madalitso Kaludzu Nzanani – Jele 28th August 2020 Introduction This article is about the historical of Inkosi Ya aMakhosi Gomani III – Bambo Willard Bvalani Gomani Maseko son of Zitonga Gomani Maseko whose headquarters is Ntcheu at Lizulu. It is not about the history of Ngoni. It is not about the Ngoni language or culture, although elements, as…
By Conleith Selenje The outcome of the Nyasaland Economic Symposium was echoed worldwide. The attendees spoke and wrote of its success and marveled at how topics touching the economy of Nyasaland and Africa intertwined with world economics. Nyasaland as an upcoming economy on the road to its independence became recognized and Dunduzu Chisiza Snr earned…
By Conleith Selenje In July 1962 a high-powered delegation comprising Dunduzu Chisiza Snr(Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance), James Cameron(Minister of Works and Transport), and Mikeka Mkandawire(Minister without Portfolio) had an audience with Kamuzu.It was an audience to complain of the conduct of Kanyama Chiume(Minister of Education). The complaint was that Kanyama Chiume was…
By Conleith Selenje The Nyasaland Minister of Finance, Henry Phillips was grooming Dunduzu Chisiza for a take over of the ministerial office at independence. All was in place. On 16th April 1962, Henry Phillips and Dunduzu Chisiza left Nyasaland for London on official errands. Two days later reports circulated in the media that Nyasaland would…
By Conleith Selenje Dunduzu Chisiza’s election to parliament,his party position of Secretary General and his post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance placed his life on two parallel tracks, danger and success. As Nyasaland went to the polls of August 1961, Henry Masauko Chipembere was serving a prison sentence for sedition at the…
By Conleith Selenje After he had been recalled by Kamuzu from England where he was studying for his higher education in Economics at Fircoft College in Birmingham,England, Dunduzu Chisiza Snr arrived in Nyasaland and joined the liberation struggle for self-rule and ending the Federation. In 1958 he was appointed Secretary General of the Nyasaland African…
By Inno Chanza. Sidney Somanje was born in 1908 in Blantyre, he was trained at HHI and became a teacher at the same institution. Somanje in 1944 was a founding member of Nyasaland African Congress which elected Levi Mumba as the 1st President and Issa Lawrence Mcdonald as Treasurer General. On 30th June 1959, Sidney…
By Inno Chanza. “Nyasaland’s persistent famine shall only be arrested by extensive irrigation of the Shire Valley.” He made these remarks after the acute shortage of food in Nyasaland in 1949. Nyasaland Govt imported maize and other grains in 1949 to combat the famine. A short-term solution: Colby made interplanting compulsory. Farmers were forced to…
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