Bingu wa Mutharika — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Bingu wa Mutharika; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth as Brightson Webster Ryson Thom on 24 February 1934 at Kamoto in Thyolo District, his Delhi and United States education, his civil-service, World Bank, UNECA and COMESA career, his handpicked succession of Bakili Muluzi and 2004 election victory, the founding of the DPP, the fertiliser-subsidy and food-security programme, his African Union chairmanship, the troubled second term and the 2011 protests, and his death in Lilongwe on 5 April 2012. Its personal-life section states he was born and baptised Presbyterian and later converted to Roman Catholicism, citing a BBC profile.