A video documentary on Dr Attati Mpakati is currently being produced by the Lost History Foundation. A sample of this video documentary as a demonstration of work still in progress, was beamed on Saturday the 23 March 2019 during a Memorial Seminar in honor of Dr Attati Mpakati which was held at Crown Hotel in…
MALAWI NEEDS A TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION. By Dr. Rev. Felix Nyika. I found myself in a very unique position last Saturday when I participated in opposition leader Dr Lazarus Chakwera’s prayers for the nation in the morning at Crossroads Hotel and a memorial seminar for the 36th anniversary commemoration of the assassination of Socialist…
In Malawi, there was a soccer club called Berec Power Pack which was later renamed MDC United around the mid 1980s. This team though defunct, left a legacy on the history of soccer in Malawi. It had players like: Big Joe (John Dzimbiri), Patrick Pompido Chimulambe, Schubert Kuwali, Chilango Ndalama, Kingsley Maulidi, Brian Malowe Ndau,…
The Time is Here Now to Rediscover Malawi! Distinguished Guest Speakers, Ambassador Kapote Mwakasungura and Frank Jiya; Members of the organizing Committee for the Memorial Seminar; The Family of Dr. Attati Mpakati and families for all Malawian fallen Heroes; Former Lesoma Members and Cadres; Civil Society fraternity; Members of the Press; and Ladies and Gentlemen.…
I was present at the Memorial Seminar for Dr Attati Mpakati held on 23 March 2019 at Crown Hotel in Lilongwe. I traveled from Gaborone, Botswana specifically for this historical occasion. Those who also attended, can agree with me the extent of unfairness and injustice that as a nation we have committed by rejecting to…
A memorial seminar in honour of Dr. Attati Mpakati was held on Saturday the 23rd March 2019 in Lilongwe, Malawi under the theme: “Malawians In the Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights in Malawi: The Life & Times of Dr. Attati Mpakati.” Those who worked closely with Dr. Attati Mpakati in LESOMA as leaders (Ambassador…
LOST HISTORY FOUNDATION OFFERS CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MALAWI’S GREAT HISTORIAN DD PHIRI . 24.03.2019. The Lost History Foundation is deeply saddened by the news of the demise of a renowned Malawian historian and author Mr. Desmond Dudwa Phiri commonly known as DD Phiri. As Lost History Foundation, we have always admired not only…
The 23rd of this month of March this year, marks exactly 36 years after the assassination of one of the unsung heroes of Malawi and Africa at large, a progressive scholar, political leader, patriot and martyr by the name of Dr. Attati Mpakati (PhD). Perhaps a brief contextual background would be necessary before zeroing in…
A 52 year old man who grew up at Area 30 in Lilongwe in the 1970s and 80s as a son to a high ranking police officer working at the Police National Headquarters, has shared with the Lost History Foundation a testimony of what he could recollect around the story about the assassination of Dr.…
Probably one of the most outrageous mass killings of human beings ever committed by the state in Malawi since the colonial era, is a massacre which happened on 18th March 1990 at Kawale in the Capital City of Lilongwe which went unreported by the media inside the country. More than 20 protesters were shot dead…