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About Willie Zingani
- Willie T.
- Zingani (born 14 March 1954) is a Malawian novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. Willie Zingani is the son of the late Rev.
- Maxwell Zingani, a primary school teacher and voluntary Anglican priest.
- After leaving school he was awarded a scholarship to study journalism at the Africa Literature Centre in Zambia.
- He later attended a Publishing and Public Relations course at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.He began his career in journalism in 1982, working as a features writer for the Malawi News newspaper, but for a time was put in prison by the regime of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda because of an article he had allegedly written.
- Before leaving the newspaper he had risen to the post of editor. Under the new government of President Bakili Muluzi he got a job in the Ministry of Information where, after a year of editing the Government weekly news he helped the President research his book "Democracy With a Price".
- After this he served as Deputy Presidential Press Secretary, then as Presidential Press Secretary until 2004. After a period of unemployment he briefly became editor of the Guardian newspaper and in 2009-10 worked in the office of Vice President Joyce Banda.
- From 2010 until his retirement in 2014 he was corporate services manager at the Limbe Leaf tobacco company. Willie Zingani has six children.
- He is the brother of Barnaba Zingani, the author of Mmphawi wa Chuma, Kugwira Njakata and Black-Skinned Scientist and other stories.
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