Kondowe was born in 1973. She graduated in law at the University of Malawi in 1996. She studied International Trade Law and she obtained a master's degree from the University of Essex in 2000.[1]
She married a Shyley Sinya Kondowe who was a business person. In 1999 they had a daughter named Nthangwanika Kondowe and she would become associated with Hip Hop music.[2]
She was a member of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and in 2014 she became one of its vice-presidents. Elijah Chola was the President and they served until 2017.[3]
In 2016 the United Nations Environment Programme was featuring her work in support of the Paris Agreement. She was arguing that the agreement was a key part of the support that Africa might expect to mitigate climate change and it was important that the agreement was upheld.[4]
In 2020, President Chakwera came to power thanks to judges who over turned a previous national election. Several judges were promoted and Kondowe was one of six women who were promoted to be high court judges at the Kamuzu Palace.[5] The appointment was lauded by feminists like Emma Kaliya and Maggie Kathewera Banda[6] because half of the appointees were women.The others were Agnes Patemba, Anneline Kanthambi; Violet Chipao, Vikochi Chima and Charlotte Wezi Malonda.[7]
Kondowe wrote "An Analysis of the Electoral Legal Environment for the 2013 Zimbabwean Harmonized Elections" in 2013 and she contributed to "In Search of Justice: Women and the Administration of Law in Malawi" which was published in 2000.[3][8]
