A Monument More Lasting than BronzeFormed in 1964, the year of independence, the University of Malawi promised more than the distant University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland founded 1952 ever could. A decade and a half later, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, by then Life President of the Republic of Malawi, let it be known to the University that a Department of Classics was to be established teaching the history and languages of the ancient Mediterranean world at Zomba, on the edge of the