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13 unusual facts about Malawi


Caia, Mozambique

Caia also has an airport with a 900-metre paved runway, and is a station on the railway from Beira via the Dona Ana Bridge to Malawi, Moatize and Tete, which was the damaged in the Mozambique Civil War and is currently being rehabilitated.

Chitipa

Chitipa is the capital of Chitipa District, Malawi and the birthplace of Malawian lawyer, politician, and philanthropist James Nyondo.

Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian

In 1875, the Free Church of Scotland established itself in northern Malawi with headquarters in Livingstonia, while in 1876 the Church of Scotland set up a mission in Blantyre.

Emmie Chanika

Their best seller is Malawi Lost Decade 1994-2004, all published by MontfortMedia, Balaka.

George Nyandoro

On 25 January 1959 he was present at the famous forest meeting in Limbe, generally regarded as the precursor of the troubles that broke out shortly afterwards in Nyasaland (now Malawi).

Likoma

Likoma, Malawi, a town on Likoma Island that serves as the administrative capital of Likoma District

Malawi

The Malawian Navy has 3 vessels operating on Lake Malawi, based in Monkey Bay.

Malawian kwacha

The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Nsanje

Nsanje (formerly Port Herald) is the main town in Nsanje District within the Southern Region of Malawi.

Nyassa

Lake Malawi, a lake between Malawi and Mozambique also known as Lake Nyassa

Malawi, a country in Southern Africa once known as Nyasaland

Tobacco industry in Malawi

As of 2005, Malawi was the 12th largest producer of tobacco leaves and the 7th largest global supporter of tobacco leaves.


Anthony Kamanga

In December 2010, Kamanga yielded to pressure from George Chaponda, Malawi’s Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, to enable Chaponda to use just over MK2 million ($13,000) of government money to travel to Geneva, Switzerland to attend a personal function.

Benjani Mwaruwari

In the Ngonde language of Malawi, his name should read Mwaluwali but because the Shona language uses 'R' in place of 'L', since 'L' is not part of the Shona alphabet, his name now reads Mwaruwari.

Bernard Sande

He is Malawi's Ambassador to the U.K. and is deputized by John Tembo Jr.

Big Bullets F.C.

Big Bullets (BB) is a Malawian football (soccer) club based in Blantyre and by unconfirmed statistics, Malawi's popular football club and has dominated the country's major soccer league, TNM Super League, since it was formed in 1967.

Capital Radio Malawi

The station broadcasts across all three regions of Malawi, and covers the urban centers of Blantyre, Zomba, Lilongwe, Mangochi and Mzuzu.

Chikondi Mpulula

Chikondi Mpulula (Born in 1993 in Malawi) is a Malawian footballer who currently plays as a Striker for the Malawian football club, Blue Eagles FC of Lilongwe in the Malawi Premier Division.

Dignitas International

Since October 2004, Dignitas has been working particularly in Zomba District, Malawi in partnership with the Malawi Ministry of Health, providing antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to thousands of children and adults in the country.

Dona Ana Bridge

It was originally constructed as a railway bridge to link Malawi and the Moatize coal fields to the port of Beira.

Dunduzu Chisiza

One, Du Chisiza Jnr, was born subsequent to his death and became one of Malawi's most prominent playwrights.

Ekwendeni

It has one of the oldest churches in Malawi belonging to the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian (CCAP), the local equivalent of the Church of Scotland.

Essau Kanyenda

Essau Boxer Kanyenda (born 27 September 1982 in Dedza, Malawi) is a Malawian international footballer who plays as a striker for South African side Polokwane City F.C..

Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus

It has been found only at two widely separated localities in Malawi, Thumbi Island West at Cape Maclear and Nkhata Bay.

International Tea Day

International Tea Day is a day observed since 2005 in many tea producing countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, India and Tanzania.

Jungle Lovers

Set in post-colonial Malawi, Jungle Lovers is the fifth novel by American author Paul Theroux, first published in June 1971 by Houghton Mifflin (US) and The Bodley Head (UK).

Justin Malewezi

Justin Malewezi or Justin Chimera Malewezi (born 1944) is a Malawian politician and a Member of Parliament for Ntchisi North in the Central Region of Malawi.

Kenny Mwape

The following month, Mwape was in goal for Zambia in 1-1 draw in a friendly match against Malawi in Lusaka, with his elder brother Emmanuel on the bench as the reserve goalkeeper.

Lake Malawi

It is believed that these painted dogs seasonally move across the border from Malawi into Zambia to hunt in The South Luangwa Valley but seemingly they have plenty of success within Malawi as the pack consists of 7 adults and 10 pups.

Likoma Island

The waters around Likoma, as is usual in Lake Malawi, host a number of Cichlid fishes; some species, such as Labidochromis caeruleus likomae, are endemic of the Likoma area.

Lutheran Church of Central Africa

The LCCA maintains the Lutheran Seminary for the training of ministers, in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and the Lutheran Bible Institute, a pre-seminary pastoral training school based in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Mabvuto Banda

In March 2012 Banda also made headlines in the Malawi press for challenging the Minister of Information, Patricia Kaliati, about the role of government.

Malawi–United Kingdom relations

England in return expelled acting Ambassador Flossie Gomile-Chidyaonga and revoked her invitation to the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Malawian general election, 2004

Justin Malewezi, Vice-President of Malawi under Bakili Muluzi, stood as the candidate of the People's Progressive Movement, having been passed over by the ruling party.

Nguni people

In Malawi and Zambia, they speak a mixture of languages of the people they conquered such as Chewa, Nsenga and Tumbuka and their original language, Zulu.

Nick Leslau

Thanks to his friend Tom Hunter, Leslau became interested in solving the world's problems: in 2006 they had a working holiday in Ayacucho, Peru; in 2007 to Malawi to help build an orphanage.

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria

In 2002 he was transferred to the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe, where he established four missionary centres in Harare, a Hellenic Cultural Centre for 400 delegates, two large missionary centres in Malawi, with a hospital, technical schools and nursery schools.

Patricia Shanil Muluzi

The opposition however, boycotted the event, and many mailed back their invitations in what Heatherwick Ntaba, secretary of the Malawi Congress Party and Alliance for Democracy group called a "the plunder of public money".

Penicuik High School

In 2007 the Malawi Partnership was established with Thyolo Secondary School in southern Malawi.

Phares Oluoch Kanindo

With POK Music Stores, Kanindo produced large varieties of music which sold in the entire West and South Africa, the countries included, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria and even the Brooklyn of New York City and Soho Square in London.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Prototheoridae

The Prototheoridae comprise 13 currently recognised species, with one genus (Prototheora) endemic to South Africa (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000) or to Angola (Prototheora angolae) and Mulanje Massif of Malawi (Davis, 2001).

Richard Liversidge

Richard Liversidge, naturalist, ornithologist and museum director, was born on 17 September 1926 in Blantyre, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and died on 15 September 2003 in Kimberley, South Africa.

Rory Alec

An orphanage Alec supports is Kondanani Children’s Village in Malawi, founded by Annie Chikhwaza which has named its Community Rehabilitation facility after him.

Syenite

Syenite is not a common rock, some of the more important occurrences being in New England, Arkansas, Montana, New York (syenite gneisses), Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Malawi (Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve) and Romania (Ditrău).

Terence Clarke

Clarke was a strong opponent of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, and in 1960 protested that Dr Hastings Banda,the British-educated dictator of Malawi, had "shouted at me and behaved in a way I have seen no English or African politician behave before" (Clarke wanted the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland to continue).

The Big Issue Malawi

The Big Issue Malawi is currently sold in the main Malawian cities: Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba, Mzuzu and Karonga.

The I Live Here Projects

In 2005, Mia Kirshner and J.B. MacKinnon traveled to the Kachere juvenile prison located in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi.

The Scout Association of Malawi

On July 6, 2003 Scouts from Northern Ireland visited Malaŵi, where they donated Scout items to the First Ekwendi Scout group in Mzuzu, Malaŵi.

Tobacco industry in Malawi

In 2002, Malawi experienced heavy flooding, causing President Bakili Muluzi to declare a state of national emergency.