It Has Been Called "The Eton of Africa"
The late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda founded the Kamuzu Academy in November 1981. The.jpg)
school has been recognized as an elite facility bringing academic excellence to a highly motivated and skilled student body.
The school is located in the Kasungu District of Malawi and occupies a large campus close to the village of Mtunthama, east of the district capital of Kasungu. It is situated 150 km north of the national capital of Lilongwe. With its rural setting, far from the distractions of large towns or cities, the pupils can concentrate fully on their educational development.
The school has been referred to as "The Eton of Africa" and in its early years only accepted the top three students from each of Malawi’s districts.
The Academy offers courses in Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Economics, English, French, Geography, Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Double Award Science.
Although the facility has been viewed as an elite school both in its facilities and in its academic excellence the shortfall in national funding makes it difficult for the school to maintain its everyday needs in order to prepare the leaders of tomorrow. The Malawi Project is sending school textbooks to this facility in order to help form the minds of the young people who will be among the future leaders of Malawi.
Pictured is Mama Cecilia Kadzamira looking over one of the new arrivals before delivery to the school.