Monitoring from afar the Malawian reaction to the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika and the inauguration, after a brief succession struggle, of Joyce Banda as the new president I couldn't help being reminded of a Private Eye cover from September 1966 after the assassination of South African President Hendrik Verwoerd.
The cover reporting his killing showed celebrating Zulus with the headline "A Nation Mourns". While there weren't many exuberant demonstrations of joy at his death, there was little mourning, and within hours of Joyce Banda's swearing in, Malawian bloggers were joking about the attempts by the late president's brother and his supporters to carry out a constitutional coup.
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