Kapote Mwakasungura

Archibald Kapote Mwakasungura was a student activist who fled Malawi for
exile in Tanzania in October 1964 when Kamuzu installed his brutal
dictatorship. Kapote lived and studied in Dar es Salaam and later taught
at the Mzumbe Institute of Development Management in Morogoro, now the
University of Mzumbe. In 1974, he, together with four Malawians, founded
the Socialist League of Malawi (LESOMA) and served as its highly
respected Secretary-General. In the democratic dispensation in 1992-94,
he became a key player as a member of the Transitional National
Consultative Council (NCC) and helped to draw up the New Malawi
Constitution. Later, he served as High Commissioner to Zimbabwe from
1995 to 1998. He is now retired and still an active politician. He is
the Chairman of the Uraha Foundation Malawi, which oversees the
prestigious Cultural and Museum Centre Karonga. He is also the Group
Village Headman in his village at Kasoba where his young brother is the
Paramount Chief of Karonga and Chitipa Districts.