Brown Mpinganjira

Brown James Mpinganjira (born 7 November 1950), known as BJ is a Malawian politician. During his 1986 detention he planned with others the end of the then one party state.

Mpinganjira was released in 1991 and he worked for the British Council. He was part of a pressure group that lobbied for a referendum to decide whether Malawi was still to remain a one party state. In the 1993 referendum, Malawians voted for a multi party democracy. In the first multi party elections, Mpinganjira became a Member of Parliament for his home town Mulanje. He served as an MP for Mulanje Central for 15 years. He was a presidential candidate for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2004 and a running mate in the Mgwirizano Coalition (MCP & UDF) in 2009.

== Early life ==

Brown James Mpinganjira was born on 7 November 1950 to Dr James and Ella Mankhokwe Mpinganjira. Ella was a nurse, in Mulanje district, Southern Region of Malawi. Brown was the eldest in a family of nine children. He did his primary education at Chisitu Primary School and his secondary was at Blantyre Secondary School. He then trained as a journalist in Cologne, Germany, and attained his master's degree in mass journalism from the University...