Background
Khonje was born in Neno, Malawi (formerly Nyasaland).
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Nelson Khonje
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Education
University of Edinburgh.
Career
He taught whilst upgrading himself and by 1959 had qualified for Cambridge O-Level through correspondence. In 1962, alongside Late Aaron Gadama he applied for a scholarship and was sent to Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh, Scotland. Returning to Malawi in 1964 to teach at Masongola, Ntcheu and Ntchisi Secondary Schools up to 1971.
In 1971 when Mwanza was de-linked from Blantyre as district he was asked by the constituents to represent them in the Malawi national Assembly.
In 1974 he was made a Deputy Speaker of parliament and was made full speaker in 1975, a position he held up to his retirement in 1987. He holds the record of being Malawi"s longest serving speaker of the National Assembly, under the one party dictatorship of Doctor Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
Membership
He became the first member of Parliament for Mwanza in the same year.
