Chiume was born in 1953. He obtained a BSc Degree in Quantity Surveying in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK, and the Surveyors Institute of Malawi. He worked for Brendan Penny Associates, Bristol in the UK, and Peter Richards & Partners in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. Chiume established his own consultancy of Chartered Quantity Surveyors in Lilongwe.^[1]

Chiume joined the Democratic Progressive Party and became the party's Administrative Secretary. From 2008, he was a member of the DPP Governing Council. On 19 May 2009, Chiume was elected Member of Parliament for Nkhata bay North Constituency on the DPP ticket.^[1] He was appointed Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Energy in the cabinet that became effective on 15 June 2009.^[1]^[2], and was confirmed in this position in the reshuffle announced on 9 August 2010.^[3] He then served as Minister for Justice between 2011 and 2012,^[4] and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2012 and 2014.^[5]

In 2018 he was there as the local MP when TX Chipunga Community Secondary School was begun. The boarding school would allow girls in Chipinga to avoid a 30 km round trip to access secondary education. The school was built on land donated by the community and a $100,000 grant.^[6] The first students were at the school in 2019 and the first set graduated in 2023.^[7]

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