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About Rose Chibambo
- Rose Lomathinda Chibambo (8 September 1928 – 12 January 2016) was a prominent politician in the British Protectorate of Nyasaland in the years leading up to independence as the state of Malawi in 1964, and immediately after.
- Rose Chibambo organised Malawian women in their political fight against the British as a political force to be reckoned with alongside their menfolk in the push for independence.
- She was arrested on 23 March 1959, two days after giving birth to a girl, and taken to Zomba prison.
- Her fellow freedom fighters, including Hastings Banda were arrested earlier, on the morning of 3 March when governor Robert Armitage declared a state of emergency.
- After Malawi gained independence in 1964, Rose Chibambo was the first woman minister in the new cabinet.
- When she fell out with Dr.
- Hastings Banda she was forced into exile for thirty years, returning after the restoration of democracy
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