14 Facts About David Rubadiri

David Rubadiri was a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet, playwright and novelist.

David Rubadiri attended King's College, Budo, in Uganda from 1941 to 1950, then Makerere University in Kampala, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English literature and History.

David Rubadiri went on to receive a Diploma in Education from the University of Bristol.

At Malawi's independence in 1964, David Rubadiri was appointed the country's first ambassador to the United States and the United Nations.

That same year David Rubadiri appeared on the National Educational Television series African Writers of Today.

David Rubadiri left the Malawian government in 1965 when he broke with President Hastings Banda.

David Rubadiri was Visiting Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University in 1972.

David Rubadiri subsequently taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and was briefly, along with Okot p'Bitek, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, at the invitation of Wole Soyinka.

Between 1975 and 1980, David Rubadiri was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Theater of Kenya.

In 1997, after Banda's death, David Rubadiri was reappointed Malawi's ambassador to the UN, and he was named vice-chancellor of the University of Malawi in 2000.

David Rubadiri received an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde in 2005.

David Rubadiri died on 15 September 2018, aged 88, at Mzuzu Central Hospital.

David Rubadiri's poetry has been praised as being among "the richest of contemporary Africa".

David Rubadiri's work was published in the 1963 anthology Modern Poetry of Africa, and appeared in international publications including Transition, Black Orpheus and Presence Africaine.