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The most notable traditional dance in Malawi is the Gule Wamkulu, indigenous to the Chewa people. The dance reflects traditional religious beliefs in spirits and is connected to the activities of secret societies. Leading dancers are dressed in ragged costumes of cloth and animal skins, usually wearing a mask, and occasionally on stilts. Other groups have their own music and dance traditions. For example among the Timbuka in northern Malawi, the vimbuza is a curative dance performed by traditional healers, or witch doctors, to rid patients of sickness. Local anthropologists report that the demand for vimbuza dancers has increased significantly in recent years, and healers from other northern tribes, such as the Ngoni, have adapted the dance into their own curative ceremonies.
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Most Malawi Cichlids are about 4" in length, but a few species reach up to lengths of 12" as well. It is estimated that there are about 500 species of cichlids in Lake Malawi.
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Malawi, in southern Africa, has water pollution from agricultural runoff, sewage and industrial wastes. The country’s fish populations are endangered due to the siltation of their spawning grounds. The environmental issues for the land include degradation and deforestation.
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National Bank of Malawi has about 1,000 employees and is the largest in the country. National Bank of Malawi is the largest commercial bank in Malawi in terms of asset base, most efficient and profitable. The Bank has 13 Branches, and runs a number of agencies within the country.
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The first inhabitants of present-day Malawi were probably related to the San (Bushmen). Between the 1st and 4th cent. A.D., Bantu-speaking peoples migrated to present-day Malawi. A new wave of Bantu-speaking peoples arrived around the 14th cent., and they soon coalesced into the Maravi kingdom (late 15th–late 18th cent.), centered in the Shire River valley. In the 18th cent. the kingdom conquered portions of modern Zimbabwe and Mozambique. However, shortly thereafter it declined as a result of internal rivalries and incursions by the Yao, who sold their Malawi captives as slaves to Arab and Swahili merchants living on the Indian Ocean coast. In the 1840s the region was thrown into further turmoil by the arrival from S Africa of the warlike Ngoni.
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Having been established as the British protectorate of Nyasaland in 1891, Malawi gained its independence in 1964. For three decades Malawi was governed by the self declared President-for-Life Kamuzu Banda. In the mid-1990s Banda buckled under popular pressure to hold elections. The country held its first multiparty elections in 1994 which resulted in the election of President Bakili Muluzi. He was re-elected in 1999 for a second and final term.
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