I still feel that Malawi would have been served better economically had we become part of the federation. At least to some extent it seems to have worked in the USA and recently Eu. But of course, Kamuzu wouldn't have allowed that, obviously, for selfish reasons for even though he kept telling us that he had broken the stupid federation he never explained why he had to so.

Those of you who were born before 1980 may remember how Kamuzu used to remind us constantly that he found us walking literally naked and he had made us better clothed and we now lived in houses that do not leak...yerli yerla.. you know what I am talking about. I thought this was an insult but yet everytime he said that we clapped hands and ululated. Why did we clap hands for this nonsense when we knew that our grandmothers and the majority were still hardly making it by? The list of questions continue - why did we still have to give him gifts and various donations everytime he visited our district? Why did they make my mother go dance for him even when her health condition could not allow her to do so? Why was my uncle covered in cattle dung mixed with chitedze just because he couldn't let his pick up vehicle ferry youth leaguers? .............you all have your answers but the underlying factor still remains that this monster allowed all these atrocities to happen and of course no one would dare question his authority just like the other ministries learned the hard way during the cabinet crisis in 1964 (i.e The whole village was demolished becuase Chipembere had questioned Kamuzu's authority, the list goes on and on, remeber Gadama?). Ironically thats the same year we were supposedly to have received our independence and became free but were we indeed free?

Happy Independence Day Malawi

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