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Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1898-1997) was a Malawi politician, president from 1966.

Short Biography:

He led his country's independence movement, was prime minister of Nyasaland (the former name of Malawi) from 1963, and became the first president of the one-party republic.

Banda studied in the USA and was a medical practitioner in Britain until 1953.

His rule has been authoritarian, and in 1971 he made himself life president.

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Tags: politician, prime minister, authoritarian

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