{"id":6531,"date":"2015-07-27T08:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:50:29","slug":"ethel-kamwendo-banda-wambali-mkandawire-decorated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/07\/27\/ethel-kamwendo-banda-wambali-mkandawire-decorated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Kamwendo Banda, Wambali Mkandawire decorated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary musician Mtebeti Wambali Mkandawire and gospel songbird Ethel Kamwendo Banda on Saturday received honorary PhD and masters in musicology, respectively, conferred by Cyprus International Institute of USA during a graduation ceremony held at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus International Institute Second Vice Chancellor Professor Gusto Gadama said last Tuesday that the two were conferred with the degrees for contributing a lot in the development of music in the country.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving his PhD in musicology in the morning, Wambali capped it all with a two hour non-stop performance at the same venue on Saturday night during the launch of his ninth album <em>(Calabrash Breath)<\/em>. In the picture Ethel Kamwendo Banda (centre) poses with fellow female gospel artists after receiving her honorary masters degree in musicology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary musician Mtebeti Wambali Mkandawire and gospel songbird Ethel Kamwendo Banda on Saturday received honorary PhD and masters in musicology, respectively, conferred by Cyprus International Institute of USA during a graduation ceremony held at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe. Cyprus International Institute Second Vice Chancellor Professor Gusto Gadama said last Tuesday that the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}