LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's Bingu wa Mutharika liked to portray himself as the all-knowing "economist-in-chief", presiding over an unprecedented run of boom years in the destitute southern African state.
Instead, he is more likely to be remembered as an old-fashioned African autocrat who picked a disastrous fight with foreign donors and ordered a crackdown on anti-government protesters in which 20 people were killed - a watershed moment for the peace-loving "Warm Heart of Africa".
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