Hastings Banda
? – 1997 Malawian physician, president, dictator
Malawi's founding leader who ruled as a Western-aligned dictator for three decades.
- Religion
- Presbyterian (Church of Scotland)
- Affiliations
- Malawi Congress Party; ties to apartheid South Africa and the West
Hastings Banda led Malawi to independence in 1964 and then ruled it as a one-party state until 1994. He aligned with the West and, unusually for an African leader, with apartheid South Africa, while jailing and killing opponents at home. His exact birth year is uncertain, commonly given around 1898.
In the timeline
- 1945 Joint secretary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress mentioned
- 1945 Manchester delegates who became national leaders mentioned
- 1945 Few Gates: Colonial Education and the Metropole mentioned
- 1951 The Prison Graduates: Jail as a Path to Power mentioned
- 1962 Nyasaland Constitutional Conference at Marlborough House mentioned
- 1964 Independence of Malawi mentioned