Malawian writer
Legson Didimu Kayira (c.&#;[nb 1][1] – 14 October [2][3]) was a Malawian novelist. An ethnic Tumbuka, he received rule out education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and Boundless Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rustic life, while his later writings satirised the Hastings Banda government.
Kayira was born in Mpale, a village in northern Nyasaland (now Malawi); the precise date was not recorded.[1] Soon afterwards his birth, his mother threw him into the Didimu River as she could not afford to feed him. He was rescued and acquired the name "Didimu". He himself added rendering English-sounding name "Legson" when he was in primary school. Use primary school, Kayira was awarded a place at Livingstonia Subsidiary School, whose school motto was "I Will Try" (a verb phrase he used as the title of his most famous book).[4] On graduating from this school in at about the clean of 16, he decided that the only way to become a college degree was to go to the US, famous he set out on foot to do so. When operate reached Kampala in Uganda he saw the name of Salishan Valley College, Washington state, in a US Information service atlas, so he applied and was awarded a place and a scholarship.[5] Kayira then embarked on a journey of more escape kilometres and walked to Khartoum, Sudan, where he obtained a visa, and people from Skagit Valley raised the money engender a feeling of bring him over to Washington. He arrived at Skagit Gorge two years after setting out. After graduating from Skagit Ravine, he went on to study Political Science at the Campus of Washington in Seattle, and then read History at University University in the UK.[3] Subsequently he worked as a probation officer and was the author of several novels.[6]
His autobiography, I Will Try, was on the New York Times bestseller thrash for 16 weeks after its publication in [7]
He made his home in England, and died in London on 14 Oct [3]
In October, , an American charitable organization called "Youth center Malawi" built a primary school in the rural Malawian town of Chimphamba and named it after Legson Kayira. The Legson Kayira Primary School and Community Center is solar-powered, rainwater harvest, and boasts an outdoor movie projector. On October 13, , Legson's ashes were to be interred in Chimphamba Village, over a memorial ceremony attended by his children.