Talk:Hastings Banda
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"On the positive side, Banda did much for the country's infrastructure. This included the establishment of major roads, airports, hospitals and schools in Malawi. He founded a school modelling Eton, called Kamuzu Academy, in which Malawian children were taught Latin and Ancient Greek by expatriate Classics teachers, and disciplined if they were caught speaking Chinyanja."
I don't for a minute consider the Classics stuff positive. Actually I think it's very negative. How to put it in a NPOV context? Everyking 09:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Change reverted, why?
I put Banda in Category:Anti-communists, but this was reverted. Why? Banda was very anticommunist. He provided aid to UNITA in Angola, RENAMO in Mozambique, refused to allow ZANU/ZAPU and the ANC to use Malawi as a base, and generally pursued a pro-Western foreign policy. Hell, he even recognized South Africa.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.190.229.78 (talk • contribs) 15:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC).
- The reason your edit was reverted is because you also changed other things (besides adding Category:Anti-communists), without providing the rationale for your changes in the edit summary. Edit the article, providing references, to reflect your assertion that Banda was a notable anti-communist. Providing aid to UNITA etc. does not equal being anti-communist. --Ezeu 05:52, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- Consider this, though. In addition to the things I listed, he also recognized Taiwan, but not the PRC.
- Banda was widely known as an anti-communist; a google search on Banda anti-communist gives plenty of info (eg "Though Dr. Banda has long been appreciated in the West as a pro-Western anti-Communist..." [[1]] + several articles by Sam Mchombo). roundhouse 18:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Moreover, according to this article, Malawi never had relations with the Soviet Union, either.
[edit] Category:Malawian anti-communists
I haven't seen the point of creating smaller and smaller categories, Category:Malawian anti-communists being a classic category of 1. Category:anti-communists now contains no-one and tells us merely that anti-communists are of various nationalities, which we knew already. (Nationality is in any case controversial - see endless English/British arguments.)
Category:Malawian people seems to me to be much more useful if we leave some people in it - it is a category of people, not of sub-categories, and I expect to see people in it. roundhouse 09:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stalin etc
I agree that Stalin, Hitler etc were in a different league from Banda. roundhouse 15:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The story ,probably false, that Banda was actually an impostor sent a prebisteran church is very famous allover the world. Although I don t believe on it, I think it is worth to mention it in the Banda bibliography, since it is a very famous story.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.220.173.32 (talk) 16:17, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "2grandkids"?
There are unsourced statements about "2grandkids" supposedly being "heiress´s" to Banda´s fortune. It would be for the better to provide some credible sources, as a fortune this size and supposed controversies around them are a frequent subject of scams.
