Richard Msowoya is a Malawian politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi from 2014 to 2019.
Msowoya served as Deputy Minister of Education in Bingu wa Mutharika's cabinet but he resigned following the introduction of the controversial 'equitable' selection of students into Malawian public higher education institutions, dubbed, 'the quota' system which, presumably, disenfranchises capable students from more populous and intellectually more gifted districts.
[1] He was also the running mate of Lazarus Chakwera, the Malawi Congress Party's presidential candidate in the May 2014 general elections.
[2] In July 2018, Msowoya announced that he had joined the then newly formed United Transformation Movement (UTM).
[3] During the 2019 Presidential and parliamentary elections, Msowoya decided not to contest in his Karonga Nyungwe constituency.