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The Daily Times is a daily newspaper published in Blantyre, Malawi. It is the oldest newspaper in the country, founded in 1895 by the Central African Planter. Around 1900, it was rebranded to Central African Times, a weekly publication and later to Nyasaland Times. [1] With the Malawian independence in 1964, it simply became The Times (then ...
file. help. " Mlungu dalitsani Malaŵi " ( Chichewa pronunciation: [mɽuᵑɡu ɗaɽit͡sani maɽaβi]; sometimes written " Mulungu "; [1] [2] English: "O God bless our land of Malawi") is the national anthem of Malawi. [3] It was written and composed by Michael-Fredrick Paul Sauka and adopted in 1964 as a result of a competition.
The current president is Lazarus Chakwera sworn in as president of Malawi on 28 June 2020. Origins of the presidency. On 6 July 1964, Nyasaland became independent from British rule and renamed itself Malawi, with Elizabeth II as Queen of Malawi. Under a new constitution in 1966, Malawi became a republic with prime minister Hastings Banda ...
The name Malawi is thought to derive from the word Maravi. The people of the Maravi Empire were iron workers. Maravi is thought to mean "Flames" and may have come from the sight of many kilns lighting up the night sky. A dynasty known as the Maravi Empire was founded by the Amaravi people in the late 15th century.
A Nyanja speaker, from near Lusaka, recorded in South Africa. Chewa (also known as Nyanja, / ˈnjændʒə /) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, [3] so the language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese).
Yao people (East Africa) 9- to 10-year-old boys of the waYao tribe participating in circumcision and initiation rites (March 2005). The Yao people (or WaYao) are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group living at the southern end of Lake Malawi. They played an important role in the history of Southeast Africa, notably in the 19th century.
Malawi is now a multi -party nation with 40 registered parties but only a few prominent ones. Elections. Elections in Malawi have been held every five years since 1994. Past election years in Malawi were in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2009, 2014 and the last one held in May 2019.
Lilongwe (UK: / l ɪ ˈ l ɒ ŋ w eɪ /, US: /-w i, l ɪ ˈ l ɔː ŋ w eɪ /, Chichewa: [ɽiˈɽoᵑɡʷe]) is the capital and largest city of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. In 2020 that figure was 1,122,000.