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Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda, President of Malawi, wearing a colorful patterned dress and headscarf, speaks at the United Nations podium in New York City.
Joyce Banda Malawian Pres. Joyce Banda addressing the United Nations General Assembly, New York City, September 23, 2013.

Joyce Banda

president of Malawi
Also known as: Joyce Hilda Mtila
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LaRay Denzer is a visiting scholar in the program of African Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Folayegbe M. Akintunde-Ighodalo: A Public Life and a coeditor of Gendering...
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Joyce Banda (born April 12, 1950, Malemia, Nyasaland [now Malawi]) is a Malawian politician who served as vice president (2009–12) and president (2012–14) of Malawi. She was the first woman to serve as head of state anywhere in Southern Africa. Banda obtained a bachelor’s degree from Atlantic International University, an online university based in the United States. During her first marriage, to Roy Kachale, she lived in Nairobi, where she became active in the women’s...

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