During the colonial period, Malawi saw rise to very few well-known singers due to the oppressive colonial regime of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

1967 saw CAA being wound down, and Air Malawi became independent, giving Malawi a national airline.

* 1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

* 1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.

Two years later, Malawi adopted a republican constitution and became a one-party state with Hastings Banda as its first president.

On June 15, 1999, Malawi held its second democratic elections.

Malawi derives its name from the Maravi, a Bantu people who came from the southern Congo about 600 years ago.

Malawi is a member of the following international organizations: UN and some of its specialized and related agencies ( i. e. UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO ), IMF, World Bank, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency ( MIGA ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), Berne Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), Lome Convention, African Development Bank ( AFDB ), Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), the Common Market for East and Southern Africa ( COMESA ), Non-Aligned Movement, G-77, and the World Health Organization ( WHO ).

* 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.

However, after the former colony of Northern Rhodesia renamed itself Zambia on independence in 1964, and Nyasaland renamed itself Malawi in 1964, the colony of Southern Rhodesia changed its name to simply " Rhodesia ", also in 1964.

The Swahili-Arab slave trade reached its height about 150 years ago, when, for example, approximately 20, 000 slaves were considered to be carried yearly from Nkhotakota on Lake Malawi to Kilwa.

* July 6 – Malawi receives its independence from the United Kingdom.

** Malawi changes its capital city from Zomba to Lilongwe.

These traditional lions passant guardant appear in the coat of arms of England and many of its former colonies ; more modern naturalistic ( leopard-like ) depictions appear on the coat of arms of several African nations including Benin, Malawi, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon, which uses a black panther.

Malawi ended its famine by subsidizing farmers against the strictures of the World Bank.

For example, in the case of Malawi, almost five million of its 13 million people used to need emergency food aid.

Hastings Kamuzu Banda ( 15 February 1898 – 25 November 1997 ) was the leader of Malawi and its predecessor state, Nyasaland, from 1961 to 1994.

This entailed both a quest for " self-sufficiency " for Malawi-becoming less reliant on its former colonial master — and growth of an industrial base that could ensure Malawi was capable of producing its own goods and services.

Alarm over the presence of the Portuguese Serpa Pinto triggered the Anglo-Portuguese Crisis, which ended with Johnston having Nyasaland ( today's Malawi ) declared the British Central Africa Protectorate, and he was made its first commissioner in 1891.

In 1953, with calls for independence mounting in many of its African possessions, the United Kingdom created the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( or the Central African Federation ' CAF '), which consisted of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( now Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi, respectively ).

Many Ugandans were aware of the Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( later Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi ) and its domination by white settler interests.

Malawi music has historically been influenced through its triple cultural heritage ( British, African, American ).

It is a little known fact that South African Kwela music though had its roots in Malawi from the Malawian immigrants that went to work in South Africa and fused their music with the local sounds, creating Kwela.

His article was thought provoking, and as a result he was sent by the Foreign office to work in Southern Africa and set base with the African Lakes Company ( ALC ), which had its headquarters in Blantyre, Nyasaland ( now Malawi ).

Trinidad and Tobago returned to the Games for the first time since 1988. Andorra make a début in the Summer Paralympics, despite the fact wich has send a team three times for the Winter Paralympics. Malawi, which would have been making its debut at the Games, and Botswana, were both due to send delegations but withdrew hours before the opening ceremony citing a lack of government funds.

It was during the Maravi Empire, some time during the 16th century, that Europeans first came into contact with the people of Malawi.

The Portuguese reached the area via the Mozambican port of Tete in the 16th century and gave the first written reports on the people of Malawi.

The Lomwe of Malawi are a recent introduction having arrived as late as 1914, during the first World War.

All movies shown in theaters were first viewed by the Malawi Censorship Board.

" Under this principle, refugees who requested asylum in another country first, or who had the opportunity to do so would not subsequently be granted asylum in Malawi.

South Africa's first formal relationship with an independent African country was established with Malawi, beginning in 1967.

Since South Africa and Malawi had their first democratic elections in 1994, Malawi and South Africa have enhanced relations.

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

* 1840-David Livingstone is in present-day Malawi ( Africa ) with the London Missionary Society ; American Presbyterians enter Thailand and labor for 18 years before seeing their first Thai convert ; Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society formed ; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Missionary Society founded

All movies shown in theaters were first viewed by the Malawi Censorship Board and edited for content.

A Malawian task force spearheaded by Malawian diplomatic envoys to South Africa including SP Kachipande, and representatives in Malawi, including former diplomat, Mr. Phiri, arranged for a meeting between the two governments which resulted in Nelson Mandela's first official visit to Malawi as president of the ANC in the early-nineties.

Cecilia Kadzamira was the official hostess or first lady of Malawi.

* Dr. Bingu Wamutarika, President of Malawi built a mausoleum for his late first wife in 2010.

In Malawi, the macadamia tree was first introduced in tea plantations as wind shields in the low tea fields and the tea pickers used to roast the seeds in this style as a fatty snack.

In Malawi, mortality over three years among children who had received recommended childhood immunizations and who survived the first year of life was 9. 5 times higher among HIV-seropositive children than among HIV-seronegative children.

Kalekeni Kaphale, a lawyer for Muluzi, asked for a delay, arguing that " this is the first time someone has been charged with such a volume of cases " in Malawi and that, since the defense had not seen the charges until early March, it needed " at least 14 days to study them to make proper responses ".

The first known Baptist work in Nyasaland / Malawi was by the English Joseph Booth ( 1851-1932 ).

The first flag of independent Malawi was adopted on 6 July 1964.