They inspired a new genre of Malawian music in the form of the urban hip-hop and rap music styles that was uniquely Malawian.

Malawian artists have been know to creatively mix rock, r & b, and the American urban sound to create vibrant fusion music.

One such artist is Esau Mwamwaya whose music fuses traditional Malawian, and pop and urban sounds.

One of the prime historical causes of the Malawian musical melting pot was World War II, when soldiers both brought music to distant lands and also brought them back.

His music is described as a fusion of Malawian and Dutch, and Afrikaner traditions.

After multiparty elections, however, many artists could now practice their art publicly, and Malawian music began to grow and develop in to the music forms that can be heard coming out of Malawi now.

Artists like Young Kay are being supported by the veterans in the industry and are working together to give Malawian music a distinct new identity.

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.

Individual artists like Lucius Banda, and Evison Matafale helped to bring the Malawian music scene on the national and international scene.

The reggae music of Malawian reggae artists has been music of resistance and of struggle.

Traditional Malawian music has also found some commercial success, like the folk fusionists Pamtondo, whose music uses rhythms from the Lomwe, Makuwa and Mang ' anja peoples.

Kwela music was influened by blending the music of Malawian immigrants to South Africa, together with the local sounds of South Africa.

The music was popularised in South Africa and then brought to Malawi where contemporary Malawian artists have also began producing Kwela music.

Malawian tribes traded slaves with the Portuguese.

NAC soon spread across Southern African with powerful branches emerging among migrant Malawian workers in Salisbury ( now Harare ) in Rhodesia and Lusaka, in Zambia.

In spite of the name, Malawian jazz has little in common with its American namesake.

The school has students from a diverse range of nationalities with around half of the students Malawian.

110 employees were laid off in March 2002 in order to help keep costs under control, with Mathews Chikaonda, the former Malawian Finance Minister noting that the airline was overstaffed and was a drain on the coffers of the government.

After the Malawian government approved a bid by South African Airways and Crown Aviation to take a stake in Air Malawi, in April 2003, the deal with South African Airways to support the airline fell through.

In November 2007, it was announced that the Malawian government was in talks with Comair of South Africa over a partnership deal with Air Malawi.

In early 2008, negotiations with Comair broke down in dispute over the terms of the arranged deal ; the Malawian government preferring a strategic partnership, whilst Comair wished to take an 80 % stake in the airline.

In September 2008, it was announced that the Malawian government had agreed to sell a 49 % stake in Air Malawi to Comair, with Roy Commsy, Malawian Deputy Transport Minister stating that the government insisted on a 49 % stake as being in the best interests of the nation.

The party was formed in February 2005 by Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika after a dispute with the United Democratic Front.

New Highfield was established in 1956 and comprises Lusaka, named after the Zambian capital, a testimony to a significant part of its population who are of Zambian and Malawian origin ; Egypt, Jerusalem and Canaan named after biblical places ; Engineering ; Cherima ( Dark Zone ) used to be off the electricity grid ; Zororo ( place of rest ); and Western Triangle which literary forms a triangle to the west where Highfield border with Glen Norah and Glen View.

Malawian jazz bands also became popular.

The 1980s saw soukous from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( then Zaire ) become popular, and result in a Malawian variety called kwasa kwasa.

Malawian reggae has become immensely popular in recent years, especially amongst the Malawian Rastafarians and along the tourist-filled lakefront.

Since the days of the Real Elements, the Malawian hip-hop genre has grown.

* 1933 – Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop ( d. 2012 )

Maize would eventually replace sorghum as the staple of the Malawian diet.

The history of Nyasaland was marked by a number of unsuccessful Malawian attempts to obtain independence.

All Malawian citizens of Indian heritage were forced to leave their homes and businesses and move into designated Indian areas in the larger cities.

Increasing domestic unrest and pressure from Malawian churches and from the international community led to a referendum in which the Malawian people were asked to vote for either a multi-party democracy or the continuation of a one-party state.

Migrations and tribal conflicts precluded the formation of a cohesive Malawian society until the turn of the 20th century.

Despite some clear differences, no significant friction currently exists between tribal groups, and the concept of a Malawian nationality has begun to take hold.

Since 2008 there has been a significant shift by the Malawian government towards accepting investment from China.

The colonial structures of Malawian labor export to South African mines continued after Malawi achieved independence in 1964.

Malawians were viewed as important workers in the South African mines due to their " skills, work discipline and lack of militancy " From 1988 to 1992, around 13, 000 Malawian migrant laborers were forcefully repatriated out of South Africa.

Tanzanian communities along the north-east shore ( some without road access ) are linked by ferry, and Malawian steamer and boat services have run the length of the lake for about 120 years.

The kwacha ( ISO 4217: MWK ) is the currency of Malawi as of 1971, replacing the Malawian pound.

The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.

The kwacha replaced the Malawian pound in 1971 at a rate of two kwacha to one pound.

Old Malawian 1 kwacha note, carrying the date 1 Dec 1990, depicting former President-for-Life Hastings Banda on the front and workers in a Tobacco field on the reverse.

Rising oil prices and falling global commodity prices combined to wreak havoc on a fragile and landlocked Malawian economy based on an insular and indefensible ISI macroeconomic strategy.

Increasingly, the economy was rearranged into a political tool to serve the consumption needs of the emerging Malawian middle-class and thus render it less prone to revolution.

Banda personally founded Kamuzu Academy, a school modelled on Eton, at which Malawian children were taught Latin and Ancient Greek by expatriate classics teachers, and disciplined if they were caught speaking Chichewa.

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.