PARALLELS IN THE TIME OF TRAGIC LOSS: TODAY AND SEPTEMBER 1962
Malawians are experiencing a profound sense of grief today following the death of the Vice President Dr Saulos Chilima in a plane crash. This is similar to the deep sorrow that gripped the nation in September 1962. The unexpected passing of Dunduzu Chisiza in a tragic car accident, a prominent political figure and Deputy Finance […]
AIR TRAGEDY IN NYASALAND: THE CHIRADZULO PLANE CRASH OF OCTOBER 1958
A Routine Flight Gone AwryOn the crisp morning of October 19th, a French Air Force Douglas C-47 plane which had arrived from Paris, departed Chileka Airport in Blantyre, Nyasaland, at 08:30 AM. It was heading to Arivonimamo Airport in Madagascar. Minutes after takeoff, routine communication between the aircraft and the air traffic control tower ceased […]
KAMKHWALA SELENJE WORKING AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES THIS WEEK.
Kamkhwala Selenje the Executive Director of Lost History Foundation (LHF) is working from the National Archives in Zomba this week. He is getting details to verify some points raised in the manuscript of a book on the Mwanza “War” of October 1967 that LHF is finalising.
VOTER REGISTRATION FOR THE AUGUST 1961 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OPENS ON 13TH FEBRUARY 1961
The first multi-party elections in Malawi were conducted on 15 August 1961 for the legislative council of Nyasaland. This was way before Nyasaland became independent on 6th July 1964. The voter registration period of five weeks for the elections opened on the 13th of February 1961 and closed on the 18th of March 1961. A […]
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 […]
Chilembwe: The Man, Myth and Legend
Watch this video documentary by the Lost History Foundation on John Chilembwe:
CONNECTION BETWEEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. OF THE USA AND JOHN CHILEMBWE OF MALAWI OF THE NYASALAND UPRISING OF 1915
Actually, there is a striking connection between Martin Luther King Jr and John Chilembwe: 1. The President of Virginia Theological College at the time Chilembwe studied at the college was Gregory Hayes. Gregory Hayes championed the philosophy of Self-help as a tool to overcome oppression. He interacted with Chilembwe and their names appear as founding […]
THE NAMING CEREMONY ON 1ST JANUARY 2024 TO BE HELD AT THE STUDIOS OF THE LOST HISTORY FOUNDATION (LHF) IN NAMIWAWA, BLANTYRE.
40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF THE MWANZA FOUR ON 18 MAY 1983
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 […]