Madalitso Wirima Kambauwa is a Malawian politician and educator. She has been the MP for the Kasungu North-East Constituency and she became the Minister of Education. She was re-elected in 2025 as the MCP candidate.
Wirima graduated in Business Administration from Temple University in Philadelphia and became a Member of Parliament.
In 2021 she was the deputy Minister of Education. In 2022 Lobin C. Lowe, and Kambauwa, were fired as minister and deputy minister for agriculture by the President. They had paid for a large quantity of fertiliser without the required checks. In 2024 an investigation by the ombudsman.Grace Malera recommended the prosecution of the involved public officials,
She was made the Minister of Education of Malawi, by president Lazarus Chakwera. Her term began on January 31, 2023. She became a member of President Chakwera's cabinet and her deputy minister was named as Nancy Chaola Mdooko.
Wirima opened a renamed Institute of Continuing Education in Blantyre noting that education was the key to Malawi's ambitions.
Wirima is a member of the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus which in 2024 was led by Roseby Gadama. She was re-elected in the 2025 election for the same constituency. She stood as the MCP candidate and she took just over 10,000 of the 20,000 votes cast.