Background
Banda, Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu was born in 1906 in Kasungu District, Nyasaland (now Malawi).
Banda, Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu was born in 1906 in Kasungu District, Nyasaland (now Malawi).
Student, Livingstonia Mission Church of Scotland. Later night school, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa. Graduate (scholar), Wilberforce Institute, Xenia, Ohio, 1928.
Student, University Indiana, 1928. Bachelor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1931. Doctor of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1937.
Student, university of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Student in tropical medicine, University Liverpool.
Private practice medicine, Liverpool and North Shields, England, 1942-1944. Attending physician Mission for Colored Seamen, 1944-1945. Private practice Kilburn District of London, 1945-1953, Gold Coast (became independent nation of Ghana 1957), 1953-1958.
Leader opposition to federation Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1949-1953. Assisted establishment of Nyasaland African Congress, 1950. Elected president-general of congress, 1958.
Imprisoned for political activities, 1959-1960. Appointed minister natural resources and local government Malawi, 1961. Prime minister of Malawi, 1963-1966.
President of Malawi, 1966-1971. Life president, since 1971. Now also minister of agriculture, external affairs, justice, works and supplies.
Chancellor University Malawi, since 1965.