Contact Information

• Name:

  National Archives of Malawi

• Postal Address:

  P.O. Box 62
  Zomba
  Malawi

• Location:

  Mkulichi Road

• Telephone:

  (265) 1 524184; 1 525240

• Facsimile:

  (265) 1 525362; 1 524089

• E-mail:

  archives@sndp.org.ma

• Director:

  Paul Lihoma

• Year founded:

  1947

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Archive

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Business records
  Ecclesiastical records
  Ephemera
  Government records
  Grey literature
  Manuscripts
  Maps
  Music
  Newspapers
  Oral histories
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  Posters
  Sound recordings
  

• Size:

  100,000 cubic feet and many unprocessed materials, particularly the book stock

• Holdings:

  Government records (semi-current): we have policy files, personnel records, financial records, judicial records, and photographs; public archives (non-current): these are transfers from the Records Centres; photographs; historical manuscripts: we have private papers, diaries, church collections, registers, minutes, books, and photographs; library publications on Malawi & neighbouring countries, journals, newspapers, films, photographs, oral traditions in record.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English, Chichewa, Chitumba, Chiyao, Chisena, Chitonga, Chingoni, Portuguese
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Library Service is free. Access to the public archives and historical manuscripts requires permission from the creating agencies to access their material.

• Access restrictions:

  40-year rule plus ministerial approval, currently National Heritage

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Guides
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

• Malawi National Bibliography.