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Kayira was born in Mpale, a village in northern Nyasaland (now Malawi); the precise date was not recorded.[1] Soon after his birth.

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Legson Kayira

Malawian writer

Legson Didimu Kayira (c.&#;^{[nb 1]}^[1] – 14 October ^[2]^[3]) was a Malawian novelist.

An ethnic Tumbuka, he received an education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rural life, while his later writings satirised the Hastings Banda regime.

MALAWI: Legson Didimu Kayira (c.

Biography

Kayira was born in Mpale, a village in northern Nyasaland (now Malawi); the precise date was not recorded.^[1] Soon after his birth, his mother threw him into the Didimu River as she could not afford to feed him.

He was rescued and acquired the name "Didimu". He himself added the English-sounding name "Legson" when he was in primary school. From primary school, Kayira was awarded a place at Livingstonia Secondary School, whose school motto was "I Will Try" (a phrase he used as the title of his most famous book).^[4] On graduating from this school in at ab