Cecilia Kadzamira getting out of a hut during a previous visit to Kenya. Moments before she landed at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on August 1, 1982, the president’s consort expected the usual red carpet welcome. The chief of protocol, Emma Murai and I were unable to go to the airport to meet Kadzamira.”Mzee Jomo Kenyatta with former Malawi president Hastings Kamuzu Banda (second left). But this was not the only visit Kadzamira made to the country. Mama Kadzamira had abandoned her career as a nurse and the man she was planning to marry to serve Banda.

Source: Standard Digital August 17, 2021 14:03 UTC