# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-chirwa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:11:07.992Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-chirwa"
name: "Vera Chirwa"
slug: "vera-chirwa"
description: "Vera Mlangazua Chirwa is a Malawi-born lawyer and human and civil rights activist. She was Malawi's first woman lawyer and a founding member of the Malawi Congress Party and the Nyasaland African Women's League. She fought for multiparty democratic rule in Malawi and was charged with treason, tried and sentenced to death by President Kamuzu Banda. She spent 12 years on death row. She was married to lawyer Orton Chirwa, Malawian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, who later died in prison."
tagline: "Malawian lawyer and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vera_Mlangazuwa_Chirwa%2C_1960s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1932-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.07584666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Vera Chirwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chirwa"
    title: "Vera Chirwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chirwa"
    title: "Vera Chirwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chirwa"
    title: "Vera Chirwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chirwa"
    title: "Vera Chirwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Чирва, Вера"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vera Chirwa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump