The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish news, stories and intelligent analysis Malawi’s new president ready to take on any problem
By John Knox She has been in power for just over a month, but already Malawi’s president has carried out a thorough spring. Joyce Banda is only the second female president in the male-dominated world of African politics. She reminds me of Alexander McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe, a large, smiling, fiesty woman ready to take