When former Malawi leader, Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda was released from his one-year detention in Gwero in 1961, he proceeded to Britain (the U.K.) and negotiated Malawi’s independence. He was an eloquent orator, who earlier in 1953 wrote a ten thousand word letter to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to voice his dissent on the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. And in 1961 when he went knocking on 10 Downing Street, with sharp words, he convinced the British Government to break the Federation, and at the same time, to allow Nyasaland become a self-governing nation. Continue reading EDITORIAL: Intervention in teachers strike: wise and dynamic leadership →