{"id":21864,"date":"2022-05-02T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title"},"modified":"2022-05-02T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T19:49:57","slug":"chakwera-given-ngwazi-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera given \u2018Ngwazi\u2019 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politician in the North has given President Lazarus Chakwera the Ngwazi title, saying the president reminds him of former President Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda. MCP Northern Region chairperson for the North Joseph Chavula bestowed the Ngwazi title on Chakwera on Friday during a rally Chakwera held in Mzimba.<\/p>\n<p>Chavula claimed that Malawians in Chitipa, Karonga and Mzimba where Chakwera inspected crops last week told MCP officials that Chakwera remind them of the leadership of Malawi\u2019s first president Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBanda was a perfectionist and you are also a perfectionist. They say they have every reason to change your name from today to be Ngwazi Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera,\u201d said Chavula.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwazi means conqueror or strong warrior and the title was first given to Kamuzu Banda who ruled Malawi between 1964 and 1994. Analysts say Ngwazi became popular than the name Kamuzu.<\/p>\n<p>Bingu wa Mutharika who was president from 2006 to 2012 was also given the title in 2010 by Ngoni Paramount chief Inkosi M\u2019mbelwa in Mzimba. Bingu was using the Ngwazi title officially.<\/p>\n<p>During the rally, Chakwera did not comment on the bestowment of the title. However, Chakwera, who unlike his predecessors has been given the title by a fellow politician rather than a traditional leader, has been advised against using the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope President Chakwera will publicly decline the \u201cNgwazi\u201d title to show that he has no appetite for vain glory titles bestowed by opportunistic persons with an intellectual RAM that\u2019s too small to process national vision and goals into reality. LMC is enough a name in itself. Write it side by side with this dark age Ngwazi nonsense, and it will read more palatable, more acceptable. And it had to be someone from that region,\u201d lawyer Bright Theu said.<\/p>\n<p>Social commentator Kondwani Munthali said: \u201cInkosi ya Makhosi M\u2019mbelwa 2 in 1959 gave Kamuzu title of Ngwazi. Inkosi ya Makhosi 4 gave Bingu the title. IYM 5 asked the President where M\u2019mbelwa University is. It\u2019s a Ngoni title, bestowed by King not a politician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politician in the North has given President Lazarus Chakwera the Ngwazi title, saying the president reminds him of former President Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda. MCP Northern Region chairperson for the North Joseph Chavula bestowed the Ngwazi title on Chakwera on Friday during a rally Chakwera held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1364,1120,306,234,664],"class_list":["post-21864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-kamuzu-banda","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-mzimba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera given \u2018Ngwazi\u2019 title - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politician in the North has given President Lazarus Chakwera the Ngwazi title, saying the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera given \u2018Ngwazi\u2019 title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politician in the North has given President Lazarus Chakwera the Ngwazi title, saying the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-02T19:20:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-02T19:49:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627035b4bde95.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"442\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera given \u2018Ngwazi\u2019 title\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-02T19:20:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-02T19:49:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\"},\"wordCount\":357,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627035b4bde95.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Bingu wa Mutharika\",\"Kamuzu Banda\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"mzimba\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-given-ngwazi-title\",\"name\":\"Chakwera given \u2018Ngwazi\u2019 title - 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