The Ngwazi's Garden of LearningKachere Project
Introduction
The Academy is like a large botanical garden and contains a wealth of trees. In 1979, before the school was built, two botanists from Zomba made a survey of the trees, grasses, and other plants of the Academy (E.A.K. Banda, A.J. Salubeni, The Vegetation Survey of Kamuzu Academy and Mtunthama, Kasungu June 1982 – a copy is kept in the Biology Department) and listed over 100 native trees; but this does not include the numerous foreign species such as jacaranda, pine, palm, eucalyptus, pine and so on which are commonly found here, and even some of the native ones such as mwimbi and m’mbale are missing, presumably because they were planted after 1979. Here I describe about 65 native species and 42 imported ones.