Bingu ladies

Check out these women--they are all decked out in their special-occasion chitenjes deocrated with the image of the face of the president, Bingu wa Mutharika! He usually has a contingent of them for every public appearance.

A weekend of transcontinental independence days - Part II

July 6th 2008
PART II (continued from Part I) After breakfast we set out to Mzuzu, Malawi's third city, for the nation's big Independence Day celebration, which this year was being held in Mzuzu's soccer stadium. We had no idea what we were in for, whether we would get in, and whether it would be worth it...but we were going! It was a pleasant hour-long drive through a rubber-tree forest. Amazingly, you c ... read more

Africa » Malawi » Lake Malawi » Kandi Beach

Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964. After three decades of one-party rule under President Hastings Kamuzu BANDA the country held multiparty elections in 1994, under a provisional... ... read more

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