are expected to mark five decades of freedom from Britain. Malawi's President Peter Mutharika, who was elected as the country's fifth leader since independence in May, will use the event to ...

Britain had little choice then ... who were later to bring their countries to independence. These included Hastings Banda (later President of Malawi), Kwame Nkrumah (later President of Ghana ...

Unlike Portugal which was determined to hang on to its colonies, Britain ... Nysaland (to become Malawi) and Northern Rhodesia (to become Zambia) respectively. The path to independence in the ...