Memorial created 11-21-2007 by
N Chiume |
Kanyama Chiume
November 22 1929 - November 21 2007 |
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07-22-2010 4:43 PM -- By: Apollo TEMU, From: Edinburgh Sonia, Tasi, William & Family - Poleni sana. I think I know the pain you may be going through by such a loss. Tupo pamoja.
12-03-2009 7:39 AM -- By: Kelvin, From: Nkhata-Bay I never thought that you fought like this for our beloved Malawi.I thought you were simple and useless person according to the words of mouth we used to hearing from our elders,some we hated you for nothing.Now we can read and understand things on our own Sorry if you can hear me just know that I or we treasure you for all what you did for Malawi.May your soul rest in peace.
Kelvin Kamanga
kelvinreds@yahoo.com
12-03-2009 7:39 AM -- By: Kelvin, From: Nkhata-Bay I never thought that you fought like this for our beloved Malawi.I thought you were simple and useless person according to the words of mouth we used to hearing from our elders,some we hated you for nothing.Now we can read and understand things on our own Sorry if you can hear me just know that I or we treasure you for all what you did for Malawi.May your soul rest in peace.
Kelvin Kamanga
kelvinreds@yahoo.com
12-03-2009 7:37 AM -- By: Kelvin, From: Nkhata-Bay I never thought that you fought like this for our beloved Malawi.I thought you were simple and useless person according to the words of mouth we used to hearing from our elders,some we hated you for nothing.Now we can read and understand things own our ownSorry if you can hear me just know that I or we treasure you for all what you did for Malawi.May your soul rest in peace.
Kelvin Kamanga
kelvinreds@yahoo.com
10-06-2009 1:29 PM -- By: Joe Fazio, From: Beverly Hills Ca. WEEP NOT FOR ME
Do not weep for me when I no longer dwell among the wonders of the earth; for my larger self is free, and my soul rejoices on the other side of pain...on the other side of darkness.
Do not weep for me, for I am a ray of sunshine that touches your skin, a tropical breeze upon your face, the hush of joy within your heart and the innocence of babes in mothers arms.
I am the hope in a darkened night. And, in your hour of need, I will be there to comfort you. I will share your tears, your joys, your fears, your disappointments and your triumphs.
Do not weep for me, for I am cradled
in the arms of God. I walk with the angels, and hear the music beyond the stars.
Do not weep for me, for I am within you;
I am peace, love, I am a soft wind that caresses the flowers. I am the calm that follows a raging storm. I am an autumns leaf that floats among the garden of God, and I am pure white snow that softly falls upon your hand.
Do not weep for me, for I shall never die, as long as you remember me...
with a smile and a sigh.
© Joe Fazio
jfazio@gmail.com
09-14-2009 3:49 AM -- By: Brenda Bebu, From: Tanzania R.I.P Mzee
06-17-2009 4:37 PM -- By: , From: I miss you Dad everyday...
06-17-2009 8:59 AM -- By: Fr George Tambala,OCD, From: Rome, Italy
05-23-2009 3:33 PM -- By: abdul baghdellah, From: tanzania rest in peace
02-14-2009 3:22 PM -- By: Patricia Wadi, From: ZIMBABWE
01-21-2009 5:18 AM -- By: Peter Malika , From:
12-02-2008 4:24 AM -- By: Tengo Kilumanga, From: Sweden I remember uncle Chiume and to us as a family it was with deep sadness and regret we received the sad news of his leaving us. My family and I want you to know that we are together in this and shouldn't forget the strong ties of our families.
With much love and warmth
Tengo Kilumanga and Family
11-22-2008 8:37 AM -- By: Kelly, From:  Happy Birthday and God Bless You
11-21-2008 10:02 PM -- By: Jaq'~AngelJonathan, From:  So sorry for the loss of your loved one.......after reading his life story i came to the realization that angels walk among us.......they just don't have their wings yet.......may god bless and keep you on this the one year anniversary of your loved one's earning his AngelWings.......^i^
11-02-2008 9:56 PM -- By: Ahmed othman, From: Italy Rest in peace
10-05-2008 11:56 AM -- By: Emmanuel Ngalapa, From: TANZANIA Siku, wiki, miaka inapita lakini upendo wetu kwako haupiti, TUTAKUKUMBUKA DAIMA MPENDWA WETU.
09-12-2008 9:08 AM -- By: walter, From: tanzania Erica Mwaipasi pamoja na mimi mwenyewe twawapeni pole sana na mungu wafariji...
08-27-2008 5:37 AM -- By: bernadetha mkandya, From: tanzania shall be remembered forever!
03-29-2008 3:06 PM -- By: patricia wadi, From: zimbabwe remember enara wadi passed on the 12/04/2006 she was my loving daughter i miss you a lot may god bless her where ever she is memories will never die rest in peace
03-09-2008 11:28 PM -- By: N. N Mhango, From: Canada The dirge for Kanyama Chiume-Doyen.
It has taken me a long time to morn Kanyama Chiume. Much has already been written about this doyen. He is no more yeah. He’s gone and he will never return.
Is he totally gone? Nay! His legacy will live on beyond imagination. His selfless life can never varnish. How can it if at all those he lived and died for are still living on?
The then Malawian dissidents running away from the manacles of their tin pot dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda (May God curse and punish him) still remember how Chiume- at the then Pugu road- used to be their second father in a foreign country. They still vividly remember how he used to provide shelter and logistic for them ready to take on challenge in a new beginning in a new land.
Indeed, the guy was connected and blessed. He was bigger than life itself. A small body by stature but a lion of man that he was! Chiume you are no more. Death is our sine quo non on this earth. We shall miss you. We shall always salute you as we honour your noble and exemplary life.
Father I am a good orator. But when it comes to tell the world what you meant and weighed, I feel small and a dwarf altogether. The grief thereof has overcome me. Though I am trying to forgather myself, the loss has heavily tormented me. Allow me to summarily aver that you were no normal person. What a fig tree even magnolia fir one! This is true not flibbertigibbet. You were a huge tree under which many hid.
May the almighty God grant you a peaceful rest in your new life? May God reward you for your noble and unique love of human rights?
May God reciprocate on our behalf?
Go dear.
Go father.
Go doyen.
Go hero.
Go true son of Africa.
Accord my homily greetings to my father your best friend FN-(Mhango) as you used to call him.
Your son N. N Mhango
02-17-2008 10:50 AM -- By: Cameron Donnelly, From: Scotland My Father, William Donnelly, worked for Mr. Chiume in the Education Ministry in the early 1960's and used to tell me when I was a child that Mr. Chiume was a very great man. Mr. Chiume contributed much to Malawi particularly when he was Minister of Education and Foreign Minister.
02-12-2008 10:37 PM -- By: lina mwenda, From: houston tx mwenyezi mungu amuweke mahali pema peponi.poleni sana mama ,sonia ,miriam,nathan ,da mgeni and everybody nakumbuka alivyokua hapo .poleni sana.
02-12-2008 4:30 PM -- By: Joyce Kassembe, From: Tanzania I am very sorry for the death of our Dear Father
Friend of Boss and Tasi and Susan Kubaga Chiume
02-02-2008 6:20 PM -- By: mtinke Gwebe nyirenda , From: USA My condolences to all the Chiume family for the loss of your father. May his soul rest in peace
Tinke
11/24/07
02-02-2008 5:25 PM -- By: Joey Power, From: Canada Dear Chiume Family,
Please accept my condolences on the passing of Kanyama. I interviewed him a number of times in the 1990s for a book that I have written and which I hope will come out some time in the next year or so. His niece, Ulanda Ndau was my research assistant at this time as well. I will never forget the first time I met him at his Blantyre house when he was working at CLAIM. He smiled widely and said, "So, here I am - Lucifer". He maintained a wit and humour which was truly admirable in spite of all the adversity he and the family suffered. He will be sorely missed.
As promised, when the book is published I will send a copy to the family. I am only sad that my slow progress has meant that he is unable to read, as he would joke, "the lies I wrote about him".
Yours respectfully,
Joey Power
History Department
Ryerson University
Toronto, Ontario
11/28/07
02-02-2008 5:05 PM -- By: Lufingo Mwafulirwa , From: Malawi I am sadned with the death of Mr Chiume. May god be with you during this trying time.
Lufingo Mwafulirwa
11/30/07
02-02-2008 4:52 PM -- By: Paliani Chinguwo , From: Lilongwe Greetings!
As a stauch panafricanist myself, i hereby send my heartfelt condolences to the entire Chiume family for the death of a nationalist, revolutionary, visionary, staunch panafricanist, and Hero of Africa, Kanyama Chiume. He has always been my hero throughout. I still keep a letter in my personal archives he wrote me in his own handwritting in 2002 from Nkhatabay inspiring my colleagues and myself in the field of panafricanism.I was there with you at the burial ceremony last saturday to pay the last respects to this Hero.
In honour of Kanyama Chiume and his collegues who fled after the cabinet crisis, i wrote an article on Cabinet Crisis years back to inform the people on actually what constituted the so called cabinet Crisis. Part of it has appeared in today's Nation paper on Kamuzu Supplement in a work which i collaborated with Mzati Nkolokosa.
12/03/07
02-02-2008 4:25 AM -- By: Zaytun Baghdellah, From: Dar es Salaam Dears!!
I am deeply saddened to hear the news about the sudden
death of our beloved Uncle Kanyama Chiume My thoughts
are with you all during this difficult time. We are
all in a state of shock.
I remember Uncle Chiume as a literal person and very
active during those days of Pan Africanism , together
with his collegues Baghdellah and Makange May there
souls rest in eternal peace…The last I saw him
was during those days when he had an office near Co
cabs…he always greeted me with a smile and spoke very
fondly of my Dad..
I know you guys will miss Uncle Chiume greatly. During
this difficult time, I know you will draw upon your
own strength and the strength of loved ones that hold
you in their thoughts.
Remember this world is filled with people who care
about you and are thinking about you in this difficult
time of sorrow.
You have my deepest sympathy.
Zaytun Baghdellah..
11/26/07
02-02-2008 12:14 AM -- By: Shan Sacranie, From: Dear Nathan - I only just learnt about the death of Mr. Chiume.
I recall meeting your father on several occasions when I was a little boy growing up during the troubled times in then Nyasaland. Quite apart from his prolific views on the future of an independent Malawi and his visions for pan Africa, what always struck me was how he acknowledged those around him - even a child trying to come to terms with the changes which were taking place. I recall he was always intense - but also remember him stooping down to shake my hand.
You father was a visionary - perhaps years ahead of his time, certainly decades ahead of Malawi's political maturity. These were words used by my own father, Sattar Sacranie, when we first learnt that Kanyama Chiume had managed to escape during the Cabinet Crisis.
I borrowed memories of your father when I wrote "Intensity of a Dream" a fictional novel about Malawi. He was the future and like the fools we are, we lost him.
Africa lost a teacher, Malawi lost a leader.
Sincerely,
Shan Sacranie.
12/17/2007
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