 Chisiza went north to Tanganyika (now Tanzania), where in 1949 he briefly worked as a clerk in the police records department in Dar es Salaam.He studied for four years at Aggrey Memorial College in Uganda, earning a Cambridge International General Certificate of Education.There, he joined and became secretary of the Nyasaland Students' Association active at Makerere College in Kampala, and supported himself by working odd jobs.