Rulers of Malawi (1891-Present)

Rulers of Malawi  (1891-Present)

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Malawi Status :

14 May 1891
Malawi= Nyasaland Districts Protectorate
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22 Feb 1893
Malawi= British Central Africa Protectorate
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6 Jul 1907
Malawi = Nyasaland
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1 Aug 1953
untill:
31 Dec 1963
Malawi is a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

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6 Jul 1964
on this date it was independence as Malawi
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6 Jul 1966
on this date : Malawi is a republic
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Commissioners :
1 Feb 1891 - 16 Apr 1896  Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston        (b. 1858 - d. 1927)
16 Apr 1896 -  1 Apr 1907  Alfred Sharpe (from 1903,
                           Sir Alfred Sharpe)                 (b. 1853 - d. 1935)
1 Apr 1907 -    Sep 1907  Francis Barrow Pearce (acting)     (b. 1866 - d. 1926)

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Governors :

   Oct 1907 -  1 May 1908  Sir William Henry Manning
                           (1st time) (acting)                (b. 1863 - d. 1932)

 1 May 1908 -  1 Apr 1910  Sir Alfred Sharpe                  (s.a.)

 1 Apr 1910 -  4 Jul 1910  Francis Barrow Pearce (acting)     (s.a.)

 4 Jul 1910 -  6 Feb 1911  Henry Richard Wallis (acting)      (b. 1866 - d. 1946)

 6 Feb 1911 - 23 Sep 1913  Sir William Henry Manning
                           (2nd time) (acting)                (s.a.)

23 Sep 1913 - 12 Apr 1923  George Smith (from 1914,
                           Sir George Smith)                  (b. 1858 - d. 1938)
12 Apr 1923 - 27 Mar 1924  Richard Sims Donkin Rankine        (b. 1875 - d. 1961)
                           (acting)
27 Mar 1924 - 30 May 1929  Sir Charles Bowring                (b. 1872 - d. 1945)
30 May 1929 -  7 Nov 1929  Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston   (b. 1870 - d. 1960)
                           (acting)

 7 Nov 1929 - 22 Nov 1932  Shenton Thomas (from 1 Jan 1931,
                           Sir Shenton Thomas)                (b. 1879 - d. 1962)

22 Nov 1932 -  9 Apr 1934  Sir Hubert Winthrop Young          (b. 1885 - d. 1950)

 9 Apr 1934 - 21 Sep 1934  Kenneth Lambert Hall (acting)      (b. 1887 - d. 1979)

21 Sep 1934 - 20 Mar 1939  Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster     (b. 1879 - d. 1939)

20 Mar 1939 -  8 Aug 1942  Sir Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy       (b. 1889 - d. 1965)

 8 Aug 1942 - 27 Mar 1947  Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards  (b. 1889 - d. 1955)

30 Mar 1947 - 10 Apr 1956  Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby
                           (from 1949, Sir Geoffrey Francis  Taylor Colby)         (b. 1901 - d. 1958)

10 Apr 1956 - 10 Apr 1961  Sir Robert Perceval Armitage       (b. 1906 - d. 1990)

10 Apr 1961 -  6 Jul 1964  Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones           (b. 1908 - d. 1992)

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Governor-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)

 6 Jul 1964 -  6 Jul 1966  Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones           (s.a.)

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Presidents

 6-7-1966
to:
21-5-1994
President of Malawi  = Hastings Kamuzu Banda    (born 1898? - died 1997)

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21-5-1994
to:
24-5-2004
President of Malawi  = Bakili Muluzi         (b. 1943)

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24-5-2004
to:
 5-4-2012
President of Malawi  = Bingu wa Mutharika                (b. 1934 - d. 2012)

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7-4-2012
to:
31-5-2014
President of Malawi  = Joyce Banda (f)    (b. 1950)

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31-5-2014
till now    
President of Malawi  =  Peter Mutharika                 
He is the  brother of Bingu wa Mutharika.
(born in 18-7-1940, Thyolo district, Nyasaland [now Malawi]),
He was appointed as a  foreign minister (2011-12) ;
He was also minister of justice (2009-10) and education, science and technology (2010-11).
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Prime minister
1 Feb 1963
to:
  6 Jul 1966 
Prime minister of Malawi = Hastings Kamuzu Banda              (s.a.)


 

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H.K. Banda

Banda, Hastings Kamuzu :
(b. 1898?¹, near Kasungu, British Central Africa Protectorate [now Malawi] - d. Nov. 25, 1997, Johannesburg, South Africa),
 prime minister (1963-66) and president (1966-94) of Malawi (until 1964 Nyasaland)

 He first became involved in his homeland's politics when white settlers in the region demanded the federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland in 1949

 Banda and others in Nyasaland strongly objected to this extension of white dominance, but the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was nevertheless established in 1953. In 1959 he was imprisoned by the British colonial authorities. He was released in 1960 and a few months later accepted British constitutional proposals granting Africans in Nyasaland a majority in the Legislative Council. He was minister of natural resources and local government in 1961-63, and he became prime minister in 1963, the year the federation was finally dissolved. He retained the post of prime minister when Nyasaland achieved independence in 1964 under the name of Malawi. Malawi became a republic in 1966 with Banda as president. He headed an austere, autocratic one-party regime and jailed or executed his opponents. He had himself declared president for life in 1971. He concentrated on building up infrastructure and increasing agricultural productivity. His foreign-policy orientation was decidedly pro-Western. Widespread domestic protests and the withdrawal of Western aid forced him to legalize other political parties in 1993. In the country's first multiparty presidential elections (1994), he was defeated by Bakili Muluzi. Muluzi's government tried him for the 1983 murder of four political opponents but he was found not guilty. He finally retired from opposition politics in July 1997.

¹ Banda's official birthday was May 18, 1906, but he was widely believed to be older and the hospital where he died gave his age as 99. For many years, it was a criminal offense to discuss his age in Malawi. His nephew, former local government minister Katola Phiri, said Banda was actually born in 1896 and that his original name was Kamnkhwala Banda, he was baptized in 1910 Akim Kamnkhwala Mtunthama Banda, and changed the name to Hastings Kamuzu Banda sometime after 1917. (There even has been a story that Banda died young, while a medical student, and that Richard Armstrong, an American medical student who had befriended him, had taken his place.)


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