Obverse: Portrait of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda - first president of Malawi at left, fisherman in boat on Lake Malawi at center.
Reverse: Tea Pickers at the foothills of Mount Mulanje.
The Malawi pound appeared in 1964 after the pound of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In 1971 the pound was renamed into the kwacha, which equals 100 tambala.