<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In Ghana, Kamuzu and his English mistress were thought of as man and wife; not as engaged in an illicit relationship. As an excerpt of a letter from a member of the Kojo Botsion family in Ghana to me indicates:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Quote</div><div class="">Dear Dr Nthenda </div><div class="">Etc etc </div><div class="">He and HE Kamuzu Banda were indeed very close and my grandmother Ruth if I recall mentioned staying with him and Madame Merene French whenever in London. So close were their relationship that my father was named Kojo Kamuzu Botsio and his sister Merene Botsio.</div><div class="">Unquote</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thus Kamuzu’s relationship to Madame Merene is commemorated and lives on for ever. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Facebook article is fairly accurate, take out a line or two.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">LN<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 20, 2022, at 2:19, Diana Cammack <<a href="mailto:cammack@mweb.co.za" class="">cammack@mweb.co.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">This appeared recently on Facebook. I have no idea how accurate it is. 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