Emily Lilly Mkamanga (27 December 1949 – 28 November 2021) was a Malawian writer and social commentator.
[1] She was educated at Livingstonia, Uliwa, Lilongwe Girls' Secondary School[2] and the University of Malawi, where she studied in the Bunda College of Agriculture[3] and graduated in 1971.
[5] While the dancing had once been associated with female activists, it came to be required of all women and controlled through the Malawi Congress Party leadership.
[7] In the same year that Suffering in Silence appeared she also co-authored Road to Democracy: role of the media in the 2000 Malawi local government elections: final report.
[8] Mkamanga was a regular columnist for the Nyasa Times, and also wrote political and social opinion pieces elsewhere.