Ken Lipenga
| Ken Lipenga | |
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| Member of the Malawian National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 1997 |
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| Constituency | Phalombe East |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 14, 1952 Chiringa, Malawi |
| Occupation | Politician, journalist, writer |
Dr. Ken Lipenga was born on February 14, 1952 at Chiringa, Phalombe District. He is a Malawianpolitician, journalist, and writer. He is the current Member of Parliament for Phalombe East. He was the Minister of Finance under the presidency of Joyce Banda, until 10 October 2013, when he was dropped in a cabinet reshuffle and replaced with Maxwell Mkwezalamba following the Capital Hill Cashgate Scandal.
Lipenga attended Nazombe Primary School and then went to Mulanje Day Secondary School. Lipenga entered the University of Malawi, enrolling at Soche Hill College in 1972 and graduated with a B.Ed (Distinction) in 1976. He majored in English and History as well as Education. Lipenga won a Graduate Assistantship to study for Ph.D in English Literature at the University of New Brunswick in Canada and graduated in 1984. He returned home to continue with his teaching work at Chancellor College. Lipenga is a very keen angler, photographer and mountain climber. He spends spare time doing research on the Lomwe language.
Lipenga is married to Stella.
After working as a management trainee at the Blantyre Printing and Publishing Company, Lipenga joined the faculty of the University of Malawi at Chancellor College as an Assistant Lecturer in English. He left to complete his PhD in Canada and returned home to teach at Chancellor College. In 1986 he returned to Blantyre Printing and Publishing Company as General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of Blantyre Newspapers Ltd. In 1992 Lipenga was dismissed from his job following a series of provocative articles under his column, Off the Cuff. The article, "Of Gallileo as Dissident," metaphorically criticized one-party rule under the Kamuzu Banda regime and sided with those calling for multi-party rule. Lipenga moved to Nkolokosa and worked as a Reuters and Radio Netherlands correspondent.
After meeting Aleke Banda, who had just been released from political detention, he joined a group that sympathized with the UDF. When Banda and family decided to establish a newspaper in 1993, "the Nation", Lipenga became the founding Editor-In-Chief. He resigned from the Nation in 1995 upon being appointed Special Assistant to the then President, Bakili Muluzi.
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