Kamuzu Academy


Kamuzu Academy is a private boarding school in Kasungu, Malawi that was founded by, and named after, the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the former President of Malawi. It is described by its proponents as "The Eton of Africa".
WWW kamuzuacademy.com

History

The school was officially founded on 21 November 1981, although students had already been attending classes for a month at that point.
In 1987, it was the subject of a BBC documentary entitled "The Eton of Africa" made by John Rae.
An idiosyncratic feature of the school is that Latin was made a compulsory subject for all students from the beginning and is still taught today as a core subject up to IGCSE. Kamuzu Banda is recorded as saying: "This place is for classical education, Greek, Latin, particularly Latin. I want that to be clearly understood by everybody. If you don't like Latin, don't come here."
The 40th-anniversary Founder's Day service in November 2021 was attended by President Lazarus Chakwera.

Notable alumni