A story goes that as former president Kamuzu Banda of Malawi got older, he started forgetting the events around him. It is reported that one day as he was being driven to state house, he saw ladies by the roadside who had knelt down.
"Are you saying that I am still president?" he reportedly asked. His driver and escorts were too embarrassed to respond to him.
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