President for Life - Hastings Banda
Cycling through Malawi on the Tour d’Afrique bicycle ride in March I kept on bumping in to a gentleman who took a serious dislike to Lonely Planet in the early 1980s – Dr Hastings Banda, Malawi’s ‘President for Life.’ Early editions of our Africa guide (and our pioneering Africa author Geoff Crowther) were banned in Malawi because of what we said about Dr Banda.
A Hastings Banda mural in the Karongo Museum, the homburg hat and the fly whisk were his ever present symbols
Click here for more on Hastings Banda and the banned Lonely Planet Africa guide.
Click here for more on my first stage of the Tour d'Afrique and here for my second stage.
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story
