All this time we have lived to believe that Malawi's first president, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda was not married and had no children. But 13 years after his death a 37 year old man is claiming to be the son of the former ruler.
Jim Jumani Johansson advertised in Sunday Times that he want to change his name to Emmanuel Masauko Kamuzu Banda because he is the son of the late Kamuzu.
Every patriotic Malawian is keenly following the events as they unfold to solve the mystrey that surrounds the history of the Father and founder of the Malawi nation.
As expected the family is challenging the claims and some have even called Johansson as an impostor but its too early to conclude. a sane person cannot just come and claim to be someone's son.
Malawians have been calling for people who were close to the former President to write books on what they know about Kamuzu's life. For now we keep our fingers crossed and waiting to see how things will progress.
There are fears that Johansson is just here to find a way of taking over Kamuzu's wealth but he has refused this. He says he is ready to go for DNA test to prove his claims.
Johansson was staying and working in Sweden and he claims to have discovered that he is Kamuzu's son a few years ago.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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I absolutely agree with you. Lets give him chance to prove what he is saying. it is bad to conclude that he is an imposter without giving him chance prove his sentiments.
ReplyDelete''We also heard that John Chilembwe did not die in Mozambique or Mulanje boader as stipulated in our history. A man came from the US saying he is a grand son of Chilembwe who died in the states. I am loving this!
sometimes in trying to secure a small thing one may find themselves losing something more important that it. what i personally notice is that the so called Kamuzu's family is only trying to secure the treasere and everything Dr banda left back. however they are little aware of the impact this poor decision may attract. if we closely have a look at this young determined man,juman, i notice that he has some kaladi traits but people claim kamuzu as belonging to his mbumba, typical blacks who amangst them is no one havind such traits. it is said that kamuzu was from ghana and came here claiming to be kamuzu who left malawi at the age of 13, unfortunately he did not realise one secret that the real kamuzu had an amputeted toe. with money he managed to convince the poor malawians the mbumba, that he was the one. now my question is if DNA test comes postive what would poeple say about kamuzu's origin and about the so called mbumba? now if the mbumba is confident enough to claim kamuzu their blood relative, can one of them offer a specimen for DNA so that we prove their relativity with the former mkango? if the mbumba denies the juman just for the sake of securing the property, they might be very unfortunate in the end if all what specurates is true. if i were one of the mbumba i would suggest quick acceptance of this young man just for the sake of securing the identity. i'm very sure it is nice to be called a relative to somebody like Dr Banda as he proved his success in fighting for this land, however it would be a shame to be disaproved not to be and more painfull to be known as greedy people who accepted kamuzu to be their relative just for the sake of money-malawi work up more secrets might be on your way ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I totally agree with anonymous above.We malawians are such a tolerating people hence we easily get diceived.I have wondered for along time about the fact that we were ruled by someone for 31 years and yet we don't know much about him.This Jumani issue is probably the best chance our nation has of knowing more about the father and founder of our Nation.I wouldn't be surprised if the known family of Kamuzu is not the real family.This i believe is the reason they are trying to broke Jumani from going ahead with the DNA.There is so much to be lost for them despite the money factor.They may have decieved the whole Nation but now I arge all Malawians for the sake of knowing the truth to help Jumani.I am only worried with the time the whole thing is taking because it will create space for foul play.The so called Kamuzu family is capable of many tricks they have the resources at their disposal.History has to be rewritten its unfortunate that some of the people who were dealing with the coming of Kamuzu like Kanyama and chipembere are all gone but I still believe that there are many others who know about Kamuzu all the other suposed real Kamuzu.What happened happened let us just deal with the truth once and for all.I am for Dna tests
ReplyDeleteKamuzu was only human, he had a life to live, desires to fulfill and he made mistakes. Some people are forcing us to think that Kamuzu was not a mere man. I just found out this page which talks about Kamuzu's love life before coming to Malawi: http://www.malawivoice.com/latest-news/dr-kamuzu-banda-his-uk-lover-merene-french
ReplyDeleteWake up ma fellow nyasa,s diz is not de dark ages let us not accept any anonymous tu entrude and oppress in our tertorries
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