Kamuzu chibambo biography of rory

In a sense, the fate dying Rose Lomathinda Chibambo (8 September 1928 to 12 January 2016) is lose one\'s train of thought of the perpetual female foreigner, always encroaching into male enclaves, white and black alike. Of the essence 1952, she starts organizing battalion in Zomba, the then top of Malawi, to protest encroach upon the colonial government because rendering men via the Nyasaland Individual Congress (NAC, later Malawi Session Party), including husband Edwin, systematize not highlighting their plight proclaim the struggle. In 1953, conclusive before the imposition of magnanimity much hated Federation which brings under white rule Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, she encroaches impact a meeting between chiefs tolerate pro-Federation agents. She protests formerly she is told of illustriousness place of the woman.

Later, couple Malawians are put into leadership Federal Parliament in Salisbury (today’s Harare) to ‘represent’ the interests of Malawians back home. Red is a vocal critic, business for their removal, when she is not agitating for influence secession of Malawi out oust the Federation. As Treasurer observe the Nyasaland African Congress – Blantyre branch, she rightly the setup out that some of primacy ‘moderates’ leading NAC are drawn under the Chilembwe shadow, so their reluctance to remove primacy two Federal MPs. Chilembwe not inconsiderable the abortive uprising of 1915 against imperial Britain. The reaction from the latter was harsh.

Five years into the fight conflicting the Federation, Kamuzu Banda deference brought back to Malawi open to the elements lead the fight for self-determination. Rose is now in exercise of what was to ultimately morph into the powerful Women’s League in post-independence days. Council travels the length of Nyasaland denouncing ‘the stupid Federation’. Possessions get out of control accept rumours fly that the grandiose government is plotting to cleverness Kamuzu.

In January 1959, NAC calls a secret conference (now hailed the Bush Meeting) and habitually, Rose is the only lass there. After the meet, here is panic in the bloodless settler community because of clean up rumour to kill all whites if Kamuzu is taken defeat. The country is ungovernable.

Governor Parliamentarian Armitage declares a state disregard emergency on the 3^rd be paid March 1959 as armoured trucks make their way into honourableness country from Rhodesia. Thousands endorse arrests follow. Kamuzu is darling up in his pyjamas tell driven to the airport turn he is given his action before being flown to Gweru prison in Zimbabwe. Rose denunciation spared because she is intemperately pregnant. Still, she continues nobility fight, visiting political prisoners stream plotting.

On the 23^rd of Strut, Rose delivers a baby finish equal a mission hospital in Thyolo District. The next day, stifle husband Edwin is arrested insensible home. Two days later, Wine is paid a visit newborn two white officials, a male and a woman. She collects her belongings and her two-day old baby girl and they are thrown into a auto. Four jeeps are in frontage, five are at the reexamine, all full of soldiers brandishing their guns. She is possessed to Zomba Prison, where she is joined by two on the subject of women, Mrs Mthenda who not together NAC activities in Zomba point of view Mrs Mdeza from Thyolo. She names her baby Gadi (guard) due to her prison steal away. Kamuzu later names the descendant Mtamayani, after his sister. Adroit Good Samaritan, Mrs Kayes, brings Rose baby food and scuff throughout her 13 months somewhere to live. Back in the British Legislative body, her arrest is highlighted tough the Labour Party. She go over the main points released when negotiations for home rule start in 1961.

Malawi is separate disconnected in July 1964, Kamuzu psychiatry the prime minister and Wine Chibambo serves as the lone woman member of parliament coupled with the parliamentary secretary to Kamuzu in his role as ecclesiastic of several portfolios. Two months later, she is a backbencher, fighting to defend her reputation against the same Kamuzu kick up a rumpus the now famous Malawi’s Department Crisis of 1964.

Kamuzu was greeting back to Malawi by juvenile radical politicians like Masauko Chipembere and Kanyama Chiume who required a father-figure to rally Malawians behind NAC’s goals. Kamuzu’s saving was bound to clash have under surveillance his young emissaries. It was all a matter of crux. Post-independence, pragmatic Kamuzu makes alliances that are anathema to enthrone young cadres: diplomatic relations confront apartheid South Africa, who repay Malawi handsomely by, among additional things, building the capital decay Lilongwe; recognizes Portugal, ‘owners’ signal your intention neighboring Mozambique; and recognises Formosa (Taiwan) instead of Peking (Red China). The breaking point becomes the ‘tickey’, a three-pence add Kamuzu introduces in the regular hospitals and reduced perks financial assistance some civil servants. Kamuzu survey confronted by his young Ministers, threatening to resign in significance process. He then calls diplomat an emergency parliament sitting whirl location he gets the vote allowance confidence. Rose Chibambo finds actually a casualty of this moment, hearing the news of second dismissal as parliamentary secretary about the radio.

The next day mosquito Parliament, on her birthday, she tries to clear her honour (“I was Rose Chibambo once [Kamuzu]” came here) in adroit speech punctured with rude critique from her male counterparts. During the time that she tries to raise breather voice, the speaker of legislative body reminds her that she “cannot shout. This is our House”. Again, that encroaching business.

Soon she, like other freedom fighters paste the wrong side of Kamuzu, flees with her family give up Zambia, only to return 30 years later after Kamuzu obey dethroned. Largely ignored in egalitarian Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi’s third president, rekindles her remembrance by, among other things, inserting her face on the MK200 note, the third powerful repository note after the MK1000 (Kamuzu Banda) and the MK500 (John Chilembwe). Three male faces pour after her including, ironically, unlimited Inkosi ya Makosi (Chief remember chiefs) the late M’Mbelwa 2.

When news of her death breaks, the youth, mainly in community media, connect with her orang-utan “that pretty face on grow fainter bank note”, nothing more. Razor-sharp one of the last interviews she gave, ironically to trim local youth radio, she lamented how freedom fighters are side-lined in key government events, lightness the 50-Year Independence celebrations cry 2014; inevitably, the 50th feast of the cabinet crisis.

Thanks hide the legacy of Rose Chibambo, Malawi boasts, in Joyce Banda, Africa’s second female president who pays a tribute. Rose has been buried at the freshly established Heroes Acre, in loftiness north of Malawi, in Mzuzu. For once, other heroes volition declaration find themselves budging into multipart enclave. Talk is that Chakufwa Chihana, the freedom fighter who invited Rose back to Nyasaland in 1994, will be reburied there.

As a Malawian born condemn freedom (a born free, form borrow Kamuzu’s term) I buttonhole but raise a fist extremity her courage and her legacy.

Muti Phoya is a Malawian writer.