Francis Moto

Professor Francis P. B. Moto (born 1952) is a Malawian writer, academic, and diplomat.

He attended secondary school in Chichiri in Blantyre and was admitted to the University of Malawi in 1972, obtaining a degree in linguistics in 1977.

From 1990-93, he served as Education Attaché of Malawi in London,[2] Later he worked as lecturer in Chichewa and linguistics at Chancellor College (part of the University of Malawi).

[2] In 2005, following disturbances at the university, Francis Moto was removed as Principal by the then President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika.

Francis Moto's book Trends in Malawi Literature (2001) has been the subject of a detailed critique by Professor Harri Englund of the University of Cambridge.