The Economist (US), May 21st, 1994
Bakili Muluzi has been elected president of Malawi in a 1994 election, the country's first since it became independent 30 years ago. Voted out of office was Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the country's dictator for that 30-year period. Banda is now in his 90s.
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 goo...
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