Desmond Dudwa Phiri, is popularly known as DD Phiri.He is a Malawian Author, Economist, Historian, and Playwright. He was born in Mzimba, Malawi and is the Principal and proprietor of the Aggrey Memorial School in Blantyre. He has published 17 books in the fields of history, sociology and economics and is recognized by the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) as one of the top 23 authors in Africa in 2011. He is a regular colomnist in "The Nation" Newspaper.

Personal Life

Phiri was born in Mzimba Malawi. He went to Blantyre Secondary School and Livingstonia and Loundon. He later moved to England and studied at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

, University of London in Economics, History, and Sociology.He received an honorary doctorate at the University of Malawi

University of Malawi

The University of Malawi is an educational institution established in 1964 and composed of five constituent colleges located in Zomba, Blantyre, and Lilongwe. Of the five colleges, the largest is Chancellor College in Zomba. The name of the school is abbreviated to UNIMA. It is part of the...

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Career

He worked as a diplomat in the foreign service and retired from the civil service in 1976. He is the Principal and Proprietor of Aggrey Memorial School.He is a columnist for the widely read Nation Newspaper.

Biography

• Let Us Die for Africa: An African Perspective on the Life and Death of John Chilembwe of Nyasaland - 1999
• Charles Chidongo Chinula - 1975
• Dunduzu K. Chisiza - 1974
• James Frederick Sangala: Founder of the Nyasaland African Congress and Bridge between Patriot John Chilembwe and Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda - 1974
• Inkosi Gomani II: Maseko-Ngoni Paramount Chief Who Suffered Martyrdom for His People and Country -1973

History

• From Nguni to Ngoni:A History of the Ngoni Exodus from Zululand and Swaziland to Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia- 1982
• History of Malawi: From Earliest Times to the Year 1915 - January 2004
• History of the Tumbuka People - 2000
• Democracy with a Price: The History of Malawi since 1900 (Co-AuthorsBakili Muluzi
  Bakili Muluzi
  Elson Bakili Muluzi is a Malawian politician. He was the President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004 and was Chairman of the United Democratic Front until 2009.-Presidency:...
  
  , Yusuf Juwayeyi, Mercy Makhambera -1999

Novels(Tumbuka

Tumbuka

The Tumbuka are a Bantu ethnic group living in Northern Malawi, Eastern Zambia and Southern Tanzania. Their chief god is called Chiuta, who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created, just like the God of the Abrahamic religions...

language)

• Mankhwala a Ntchito
• Kanakazi Kayaya
• Ku Msika wa Vyawaka
• Ulanda wa Mavunika

Essays

• Malawi Our Future Our Choice: The Selected Essays of D.D. Phiri (Co-Authors John Williams, Judy Williams)-2006