Malawi ranked top in Africa on free speech – Afrobarometer

By Nyasa Times Reporter

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Malawi has been ranked top of the countries in Africa with freedom of speech according to the recently published report The Partnership of Free Speech &Good Governancein Africa.

Malawi records 79 percent in a survey that included 34 countries across the continent.

Released by Afrobarometer last week in Kenya, in the survey Tanzania follows on second with 77 percent of the people interviewed, Liberia third on 75 percent, Ghana on 74 and Tunisia 73.

Zimbabwe and Swaziland from the Southern Africa fall in the bottom which has Sudan at the bottom while Togo second bottom.

Malawi President Joyce Banda: Free speech in Malawi

Ivory Coast is on third from the bottom while Zimbabwe on fourth from bottom and Swaziland on fifth.

According to the countries where people feel least free, only about one in four feel they have unrestricted opportunities to speak their minds. Bottom of the log are Sudan (19 percent), Togo (21 percent), Cote dIvoire (21 percent), Zimbabwe (22 percent) and Swaziland (24 percent).

Most of Africas biggest nations fall somewhere in the middle, with 34 percent of Nigerians, 52 percent of South Africans, 53 percent of Egyptians and 55 percent of Kenyans feeling completely free to speak.

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Malawi ranked top in Africa on free speech – Afrobarometer