When Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, became the first president of independent Malawi, himself a keen follower of Chewa history and family tree, and a heroic fighter of the ‘stupid’ federation, decided to correct the ‘historical accident’ by reestablishing the Kaomba chieftaincy in 1974. Oral history from Kamuzu’s close living relative in Chiwengo has it that …
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