Kalekeni Mtalika Banda
Founder/Executive Director
Glenville, New York, USA
Chris Trow
Chairman
Glenville, New York, USA
Lawrence Penna
Vice President/Treasurer
Glenville, NY, USA
Madison P. Wilcox
Secretary
Geneva, Switzerland
Sekani Nyasulu-Banda
Blantyre, Malawi
RJ Bevers
Overijssel, Netherlands
Margaret Ross Millock
Loudonville, New York
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west.
The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Malawi is over 118,000 km2 (45,560 sq mi) with an estimated population of 16,777,547 (July 2013 est.). Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi's largest city; the second largest is Blantyre and the third is Mzuzu.
The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa".
