biography
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Banda, Hastings (Kamuzu)
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1906–97)
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| biography:
| Malawi statesman, prime minister (1963–6) and first president (1966–94), born in Kasungu, WC Malawi. He studied medicine in the USA and in Britain. His opposition to the Central African Federation caused him to give up his successful London practice (1955) and return via Ghana to Nyasaland (1958). Leader of the Malawi African Congress, he was jailed in 1959, became minister of national resources (1961), then prime minister and president of the Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) Republic (1966). Made life president in 1971, he established a strong, one-party control of Malawi, but following growing opposition he was defeated in a referendum for multi-party democracy in 1993, and was defeated in the 1994 elections. |
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