Statecraft & Independence
Distinguished
T. D. T. Banda
Led the Nyasaland African Congress before Kamuzu Banda
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Malawi Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
He led the Congress in the years between Sangala and Hastings Banda, through the period when it turned from a petitioning body into an independence movement.
Thamar Dillon Thomas Banda led the Nyasaland African Congress in the late 1950s, in the succession that ran from James Frederick Sangala to Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
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