Peter Mwanza

Professor Peter Nelson Mwanza (born May 1937) is a Malawian politician. He was appointed Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development in the government of President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi on 17 June 2009. He was reassigned to become Minister of Agriculture and Food Security in a cabinet reshuffle on 9 August 2010.

Birth and education

Peter N. Mwanza was born in May 1937 in Mzimba, Malawi, the youngest of a family of five. He attended the University of London in the early 1960s, where he obtain a BSc degree in Biology. He then held a position as a research scientist in Entomology with the Ministry of Agriculture in Malawi for one year. He left this job after obtaining a Ford Foundation International Fellowship to pursue advanced studies in the United States, attending Ohio State University and earning Masters and PhD degrees in Microbiology.

Academic career

Returning to Malawi in 1966, Mwanza became a lecturer at the newly established University of Malawi. He was eventually promoted to become the first Malawian Principal of Chancellor College. In this position, he integrated the Mpemba School of Administration and Law and the Soche Hill College of Education into Chancellor College, and arranged for the college to relocate from Blantyre to Zomba. He was instrumental on the establishment of the National Research Council of Malawi in 1974. In 1979, Mwanza joined the United Nations as Director of Natural Resources, Environment and Science and Technology Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Mwanza retired from the UN in 1996, and assisted in establishing Mzuzu University. He was Chairman of the University Council, and later Vice Chancellor. He also became Chairman of the Malawi Environmental and Endowment Trust, which he helped establish.

Mwanza

Mwanza is a mid-sized port city on the southern shores of Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania. With a population of over 700,000, it is Tanzania's second largest city, following Dar es Salaam. Mwanza is the capital of the surrounding Mwanza Region.

Ethnicity

The Sukuma constitute over 90 percent of the population of the Mwanza Region. Other ethnic groups in the region, in much smaller proportions, include the Zinza, Haya, Sumbwa, Nyamwezi, Luo, Kurya, Jita,((shashi)) and Kerewe. They live mainly in the Mwanza city area. National policy, however, gives very little importance to ethnic groupings and reliable data is difficult to find.

Economy

In 2011 the city council announced plans to create a major commercial development in the Ilemela District. Construction works on Rock City Mall are set to be finalized in the second half of 2015. This mall will be the first of its size in Mwanza and one of the biggest malls in the country.

Fishing

One major occupation of the inhabitants along the shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza region is fishing, and there are five fish processing plants in the area. Nile perch were previously introduced to the lake, and are exported in large quantities.

Mwanza (disambiguation)

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania.

Mwanza may also refer to:

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Malawi

Tanzania

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