Description: The year 2020 began in Malawi with a moment of high political drama when the Constitutional Court declared the Presidential election of May 2019 invalid, null and void. There may be value in looking back to an earlier time of dramatic political transition when Malawi shook off the shackles of one-party government and embraced multi-party democracy.
Brief description: Matembo S. Nzunda, who died in 2000, was a prominent lawyer, academic, politician, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. At the time this book was being prepared he was Senior Lecturer in Law at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He published extensively on various aspects of the law, including company law, conflict of laws and environmental laws. He also practised law in Malawi and, notably, defended Chakufwa Chihana at his sedition trial in 1992. He stood for the AFORD party in the first multi-party election in 1994 and was elected MP for Chitipa North. He later served as Minister of Research and Environmental Affairs in the Malawi Government.