Kanyama Chiume
Murray William Kanyama Chiume (born November 22, 1929 in Usisya, Nkhata Bata District , Nyassaland , † November 21, 2007 in New York City ) was a Malawian politician who was the country's first foreign minister in 1964.
Life
In the early 1950s, Chiume was, alongside Henry Chipembere and Dunduzu Chisiza, one of the leading politicians of the Nyasaland African Congress founded by Levi Mumba in the Nyassaland colony and a staunch opponent of the Central African Federation , which was founded on November 23, 1953 . He was appointed after the independence of the previous colony Nyassaland from the United Kingdom on July 6, 1964 by the first president of the newly formed Republic of Malawi Hastings Kamuzu Banda as a member of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) as the first foreign minister. Shortly thereafter, tensions arose, whereupon he was dismissed as a minister and went into exile in Tanzania . Banda then took over the office of foreign minister himself.
Chiume only returned to his home country after President Hastings Kamuzu Banda was voted out of office after thirty years in office in the first multi-party elections in Malawi's history on May 17, 1994, but did not appear politically.
His cousin is the politician Ephraim Chiume , who was first Minister of Justice between 2011 and 2012 and then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2014.
Web link
- Entry in rulers.org
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chiume, Kanyama |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chiume, Murray William Kanyama (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Malawian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Usisya, Nkhata Bata District , Nyassaland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2007 |
| Place of death | New York City |