 DID YOU KNOW... |
That Malawi means reflected light or bright haze and was the name of an old kingdom.
That the currency of Malawi is the Kwacha, subdivided into 100 tambala.
That Kwacha means dawn and tambala means cockeral.
The national language of Malawi is Chichewa.
| That Malawi staple food is ‘Nsima" made out of Maize.
That Mount Mulanje is the highest mountain in Central Africa.
That Lake Malawi is almost 570 km long and as much as 80 km at its widest point, and third largest lake in Africa as well as eleventh in the world.
That Malawi has 5 national parks, including one in Lake Malawi.
The Great Rift Valley, in which Lake Malawi is situated, stretches from the dead Sea, down through Eastern Africa, as far as the Zambezi River.
That Moni, Moni means greetings in Chichewa.
That there are over 400 species of fish in lake Malawi.
That Malawi contains one of the largest number of Orchid Species in any African country.
That lake Malawi was the scene of the first naval encounter of world war I. |
