Legson kayira biography of michael
He was a genius Malawi needed to showcase his knowledge but never got freedom to return until after multi party democracy under Bakili.!
Here is Legson's short story Legson Didimu Kayira was born in Mpale, a village in northern Malawi; the precise date was not recorded.
Legson Kayira
Malawian writer
Legson Didimu Kayira (c. 1942[nb 1][1] – 14 October 2012[2][3]) was a Malawian novelist.
An ethnic Tumbuka, he received an education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rural life, while his later writings satirised the Hastings Banda regime.
Biography
Kayira was born in Mpale, a village in northern Nyasaland (now Malawi); the precise date was not recorded.[1] Soon after his birth, his mother threw him into the Didimu River as she could not afford to feed him.
Legson Kayira was born (either in the late s or early s) to an extremely poor family in Nyasaland (now Malawi), a British Protectorate at that time.He was rescued and acquired the name "Didimu". He himself added the English-sounding name "Legson" when he was in primary school. From primary school, Kayira was awarded a place at Livingstonia Secondary School, whose school motto was "I Will Try" (a phrase he used as the title of his most famous book).[4] On graduating from this sch
