No Kulamba for Malawi Chewas says Reinstated Chief as he is installed as Supreme leader
Reinstated King of the Chewa people in Malawi, Kalonga Sosola IX, issued a directive barring his chiefs and subjects from traveling to Mkaika, Zambia, for the Kulamba Traditional Ceremony.
He stated that such international travel is “retrogressive” to Malawi’s development and explicitly forbade chiefs from collecting money from citizens to fund the trip.
The Kulamba Traditional Ceremony is a major annual cultural gathering held at Mkaika, where chiefs from Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique traditionally convene to pay homage to their paramount leader, Kalonga Gawa Undi.
The controversy surrounding Kalonga Sosola IX (born Raphael Nowa Phiri) centers on a fierce dispute over who holds the ultimate leadership over the Chewa people.
For generations and centuries, Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi (based in Zambia) has been recognized as the sole supreme king of the Chewa people across Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique.
However, a newly formed Malawian cultural group called Chifukwato Cha Achewa sought to break from this hierarchy by crowning Kalonga Sosola IX as an independent supreme leader specifically for the Chewa in Malawi.
He is a useless Chief. He doesn’t know that those borders were put by bazungus. Malawi and Zambia are one people and in fact speak one Language.