A Chewa born in Kasungu around the late 19th century, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda left Nyasaland at a tender age after discontent with education offered in the country.
He went to Zimbabwe and South Africa where he picked up jobs at plantations and gold mines respectively before he bounded for United States of America to further his education.
Whilst there, he attended tertially education at Merharry and Chicago Universities for medical doctorate degree before he practiced medicine in Britain and Kumasi, Ghana. It was while in Brtain where he indulged in active politics as he used to finance the Nyasaland Africa Congress (NAC) and together with Harry Nkumbula wrote a memorandum against the Federation of Central Africa.
