The Academy has excellent teaching and learning facilities. Subjects are taught in dedicated classrooms which can accommodate up to 30 students. All our classrooms are equipped with modern whiteboards and data projectors.

There are specialist rooms for practical and creative subjects including Art, Music and Food & Nutrition. We also have well-equipped workshops where we teach Engineering and Design & Technology, and two Computing network rooms with 30 PCs in each room.

Our seven Science laboratories are equipped to teach Chemistry, Biology or Physics, and we are in the early stages of a project to construct two new state-of-the-art Chemistry labs.

In addition, the school hall, “The Auditorium,” has a stage used for theatrical productions, and the Library has extensive book collections across two floors, study desks for Sixth Formers, a junior reading section, and computers for research.

The dining hall, an imposing structure with graceful arches like the other Academy buildings, can accommodate over 600 students for meals. With its well-aerated interior and solid walls, the hall has stood the test of time.

Its uses include breakfast from 6:00 a.m., lunch at noon, and supper from 5:00 p.m., along with tea and snacks. Headmaster’s Lunch is served on Wednesdays, when the Headmaster sits with the Headboy and Headgirl together with Heads of House. It’s a time of interaction and a token of appreciation for the work prefects do, reserved for the leading prefects.

The hall is at its grandest during Christmas dinners, unintentionally decorated in the students’ green and gold uniform. Over the years it has served generations whose memories endure because of their documented achievements of national and international interest.

The clinic, which is as old as the Academy, was established to serve students and staff of Kamuzu Academy. It is probably the cleanest place in all the Academy.

Bed Capacity

The clinic has four general wards, two for males and two for females. Each ward has a bed capacity of four, giving a total of 16 beds. In addition, there are four isolation wards, two on each side, bringing total capacity to 20.

Other Facilities

The clinic has a mini operating theatre with an oxygen concentrator, oxygen cylinders, surgical instruments, a mini sterilizing machine, an operating bed, and a functional operating light. Only minor surgical cases are conducted here. There is also a drug store with fitted shelves for essential and non-essential drugs, along with some surgical instruments and laboratory materials.

Personnel

Clinic personnel include one Clinical Officer, one Matron, three nurses, five ward attendants, and one visiting laboratory technician. Most staff live on campus in houses a short distance east of the clinic, just across the ring road.

Welcome to Kamuzu Academy Library, a Model of the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

A purpose-built library and inaugurated by His Excellency Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda and Founder of Kamuzu Academy on 21st November, 1981. It is a two story library. The ground floor houses the reference library and the top floor houses the lending library. The Library contains over 25,000 volumes. In addition to these in-house resources, students have access to exceptional online databases and Internet. Within the library there is a Malawiana and archive room, audio-visual room and two class-size study rooms which are also used for teaching. The library provides a serene and conducive academic environment for individualised and group study.