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Article: After Banda: Malawi. (Hastings Kamuzu Banda)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1994
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AFRICA'S longest-serving liberation leader is so no more. Thirty years after he led the then Nyasaland to independence, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, now in his 90s, this week was voted out of power.
It was the first time voters had had the chance. The old man and his Malawi Congress Party had kept a tight grip. So what will change? "Democracy is good for business," says the new president- elect, Bakili Muluzi, himself an entrepreneur in an economy which, he argues, was long stifled by the nepotism and greed of the regime. But his tasks, in a country accustomed to the simplicities of dictatorship, are rather more complex than that.
The economy in fact played little ...