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About Malawi
Malawi is an elongated state in southern Africa, bordering Mozambique to the east, south and west, Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the north. Malawi has no sea access.
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Malawi’s history
Malawi was a British protectorate – Nyasaland – from 1891. In 1953 Nyasaland part of a federation with Northern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe and Zambia). The country was granted full autonomy in 1963. Federation of Rhodesia was dissolved and 6 July 1964 Malawi became an independent nation.
Early humans lived in the vicinity of Lake Malawi for 50 to 60 thousand years ago. People Forester on a discovery site dated to ca. year 8000 BC shows the physical characteristics that resemble the people who now live in the Horn. At another site, dated to 1500 BC, the remnants move reminiscent of San people.
The earliest inhabitants of the area were Khoisan people who were hunters and gatherers. They were largely replaced by Bantu tribes during Bantu migrations. Although the Portuguese reached the area in the 16th century, was the first significant contact David Livingstone’s arrival along the Malawian island’s northern coast in 1859. After that created the Scottish Presbyterian churches, mission stations in Malawi. One of their goals was to end the slave trade to the Persian Gulf, and lasted until the late 19th century. In 1878 formed a group of merchants, mostly from Glasgow, African Lakes Company to deliver supplies and services for missionaries. Other missionaries, traders, hunters and farmers soon followed.
In 1891 the British established the Protectorate of British Central Africa in 1907 was called Nyasaland protectorate (Nyasa yao-word for ‘lake’). The British continued to have control in the first half of 1900-century, but this period was marked by a number of unsuccessful Malawian attempts to obtain independence. A growing European and US-educated African elite became increasingly vocal and politically active, first through associations, and then through the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) after 1944.
During the 1950s increased the pressure for independence when Nyasaland was joined with Northern and Southern Rhodesia in 1953 to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In July 1958, Hastings Kamuzu Banda returned to the country after a long absence in the U.S. where he received his medical degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937, the United Kingdom where he practiced medicine, and Ghana. He took over leadership of the NAC which was later to Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Banda was in 1959 jailed for his political activities but was released in 1960 to participate in a constitutional conference in London.
On 15 April 1961 MCP won an overwhelming victory in elections for a new Legislative Council. The party also had an important role in the new executive council. In a new constitutional conference in London in November 1962 did the British Government to give Nyasaland self-governing status the following year.
Dr. Banda became Prime Minister on 1 February 1963 although the British still controlled Malawi’s financial, security and judiciary. A new constitution took effect in May, which gave virtually complete autonomy. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved on 31 December 1963, and Malawi became a fully independent member of Commonwealth, 6 July 1964. Two years later, Malawi, a republic with dr. Banda as its first president. The land was also declared a one-party state.
Map of Malawi
Dr. Banda was declared President for life in 1970 by the MCP. The paramilitaries of the MCP, the Young Pioneers, helped keep Malawi under authoritarian control until the 1990s.
Growing internal unrest and pressure from Malawian churches and from the international community led to a referendum in which the Malawian people voted for either a multi-party democracy or for continuing the one-party state. On 14 June 1993 selected people with overwhelming majority, multiparty system. Free and fair national elections were held on 17 May 1994.
Bakili Muluzi, leader of the United Democratic Front (UDF), was elected President in those elections. UDF won 82 of the 177 seats in the National Assembly and formed a coalition government with the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD). The coalition disbanded in June 1996, but some of its members remained in the government. Malawi’s newly written constitution of 1995 removed the special forces who were booked MCP. Accelerating economic liberalization and structural reforms followed the political transformation.
On 15 June 1999 Malawi held its second democratic elections. Dr. Bakili Muluzi was reelected for a new five-year term as president despite the fact that an alliance of MCP and AFORD competed against the UDF.
Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004 when UDFS presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was supported by a group of opposition parties. UDF did not, however, to win a majority of seats in parliament, as it had done in the elections of 1994 and 1999. The party secured a majority anyway, by allying himself with party chairman and former president Muluzi and formed a “government of national unity” with several opposition parties. President Bingu wa Mutharika left the UDF party on 5 February 2005 because of disagreements with the UDF, especially about his anti-corruption campaign. He then formed his own party, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
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