Catalog
20 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Size | 148 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Bakili Muluzi at right, with a central vignette of a man paddling a canoe beneath a stylized sun; a Lesser Striped Swallow vignette occupies the upper left, while a sunburst motif and fish device appear at lower left. The note carries a multicolour guilloche underprint throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of tea harvesting workers in a field with the Mulanje Massif mountain range receding into the background; a fish device is positioned at the lower right within a guilloche border frame. |
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The P#32 was part of a mid-1990s series refresh that coincided with Malawi's rocky transition toward multiparty democracy — the 1994 elections ended three decades of Hastings Banda's one-party rule, and the new government inherited an economy battered by donor aid suspensions and severe drought. De La Rue had printed Malawian notes continuously since the Reserve Bank's establishment in 1965, making this one of the longer unbroken printer-issuer relationships in sub-Saharan Africa.
The watermark remains the sole security feature — modest even by mid-1990s standards, when magnetic inks and security threads were already common on regional issues of comparable denomination.