THE PROGRESSION

Malawi gained its independence from Britain in 1964. Dr hastings Kamuzu Banda shortly formed a government with his party Malawi Congress Party. The country was divided into 28 districts which then was used for ease of conducting census and any developments so that they can be allocated equally. The capital city was then called Zomba until it was moved to now Lilongwe which is pretty much the centre of the country. Malawi has four major cities namely Lilongwe, Zomba, Mzuzu and Blantyre which was named after Blantyre in Scotland because of doctor David Livingston who once went to Malawi to spread the Gospel. He visited places like Nkhotakota where a big Baobab tree on which he rested is still standing up to now. The tree is sometimes called the tree of life as it can withstand hash temperatures.Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with around 50 percent of the population living below poverty line.And because of this rapid population growth, efforts to reduce poverty has proved a challenge and any economic gains has been eroded by the population boom. The country has a large number of christians as christianity is a biggest domination to the early European evangelisation of the country. This is followed by Islam which is more concentrated to the districts which are closer to the lake.