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Dr Hastings Banda (1898 – 1997), President of Malawi, flies into London, having attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Singapore, 22nd January 1971. (Photo by George Stroud/Daily Express/Getty Images)
GHANA

Malawi celebrates independence day, but the first president left his mark

The historical record shows that Malawi’s difficulties under Hastings Banda were evident at the very moment of the country’s founding

  • Brooks Marmon
4 min read
Zimbabwe continues to struggle to emerge from the formative shadow of pan-Africanism’s emphasis on unity and power that captured and consumed Robert Mugabe’s political thought.
ALI MAZRUI

The making of Mugabe’s intolerance

How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on Mugabe’s seemingly contradictory roles

  • Brooks Marmon
6 min read