Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hastings Kamuzu Banda NPG x125648

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios

Banda received most of his formal education in the US and UK. After completing a third degree at the University of Edinburgh he established his own medicine practice in London. Becoming politically active by joining the Labour Party and Fabian Colonial Bureau, he returned home to his country (then British Nyasaland), speaking against colonialism and advocating independence. In 1963 he was formally appointed Prime Minister and led the country to independence as Malawi. Two years later, he proclaimed Malawi a republic, appointing himself president. As... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.