Kanyama Chiume

Dr Banda and Kanyama Chiume on an official visit in the early 1960s

Kanyama Chiume (22 November 1929 – 21 November 2007), born Murray William Kanyama Chiume, was a leading nationalist in the struggle for Malawi's independence in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also one of the leaders of the Nyasaland African Congress and served as the Minister of Education and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the 1960s before fleeing the country after the 1964 Cabinet Crisis.

See also

• Daily News (Tanzania)

Sources

• Report of the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry, British Colonial Office Cmnd. 814, July 1959.
• Chiume: Autobiography of Kanyama Chiume, Panaf, 1982, by Kanyama Chiume, Panaf, 1982.
• The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa, by Robert I. Rotberg, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965
• Banda, by Philip Short, London: Routledge & Kegan 1974
• Malawi, the Politics of Despair, by T. David Williams, Cornell University Press, 1978
• Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, by Godfrey Mwakikagile, Pretoria, South Africa: New Africa Press, 2006
• Kanyama Chiume official website
• "Godfrey Mwakikagile: Eurocentric Africanist?"
• Growing up in a Border District and Resolving the Tanzania-Malawi Lake Dispute: Compromise and concessions, by Godfrey Mwakikagile, African Renaissance Press, 2022

External links

• Short interview (1960s)