Killing the Chief to Spite the Village: The Erosion of Traditional Leadership in Modern Malawi - Several traditional leaders in Malawi have lately taken to the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) TV to argue on the president’s behalf about why the Mala...

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Encouragement - It was incredibly encouraging to have our friend, Todd Naille visit us in Africa. We are thankful for his courage to hop on Ethiopian Airlines(sleep in the...

The familiar voices - The heat and pressure of the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) elections is now gone. I no longer have interest in our game because of the midiocrity th...

No, Mr President, It’s Not by Choice that You’re Stepping Down in 2014 - Malawi President, Bingu wa Mutharika recently announced that he is to step-down in 2014, at the end of his second and final term in office. The announcem...

Calabash - Right-handed, Posing he on life's position- Or, put more corneally, right place, right time- Grabbed he 'Calabash 2004' And the contents- good food, still wa...

The Old Man and I - By Tendy Kay The wind blew hard, Cars swooshed past; Bicycles, people, swayed faster, And he stared. As we walked along, The old man with the bristly hair...

National Prayer and Fasting begins - Pray without ceasing 1 Thessalonian s 5 verses 16 to 18: Is it really possible to pray without ceasing and to give thanks to the Lord in all circumstances....

....Blame Game.... - *...But it was her fault she didn't take me back/* *how could you not forgive me/how could you not accept I'm a manic depressed nervous wreck/* *how could y...

THE FOLLY OF THE CSOs CALL FOR A REFERENDUM - One of the most curious and ridiculously suspicious ideas I have heard in recent times is a call by some representatives of Civil Society Organizations (CS...

Why I am a 'non-trinitarian' Seventh-Day Adventist (Part 3) - I remain convinced that Scripture says that there is one God, the Father (1 Cor 8:6, John 17:3, 1 John 5:20) and Jesus is the Son of God (John 3:16, Col 1:...

Photos! - Grandma (agogo) who lives down the road from me. She usually opens her mouth and shows me her missing teeth.... Dry Season, valley behind my house. rai...

Pretty Women - Malawi has been getting a lot of international press recently, and not all of it has been good. The Guardian newspaper just published a scathing assessmen...

Malawian Women in Public Places by Vinjeru Mkandawire - As a young girl growing up in Malawi, I once wore trousers to church. They were a brand new pair purchased on my father’s recent trip abroad. A few minutes...

To The New Group - You are arriving in a little under a month. If you’re anything like me you will be really excited and then the night before you fly out you’ll be the equiv...

The most popular question about HIV - One of my other passions is writing an HIV and AIDS column in the Malawi Nation Newspaper. Readers are welcome to, in fact they are strongly encouraged to,...

Could you lead a global conversation? #5 - Thanks for your responses to this call for participants. In order to decide who would be best-placed to convene and/or participate, could I ask that any in...

- Doing ‘Gender’ Cannot Improve Malawian Women’s Lives: A Critical Assessment of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy Abstract Despite the various str...

Kenyan men are paralyzed by patriarchy - not women in power or with pangas - Lewis Ricardo Gordon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University, gives an interesting story about his time as professor at a university whose enviro...

Lost in Translation - Sometimes I can't help but laugh at people who try a bit too hard to be cleverer than everyone else. Here is a case of a certain politician giving an intervi...

Recommended Reading For Support Raising Missionaries - Moving to a far away land to serve as a missionary is easy. Building a community of people around you to partner with the ministry through prayer and fina...

I am in Mozambique - ** My short visit to Maputo Mozambique this week reveals that Mozambicans like to enjoy life to the fullest. I am staying at Rovuma hotel and its looks ...

Death has robbed me of George, Mayeso, Elisha and Chipo - I woke up on Thursday 2nd February to day hearing that seasoned journalist George Dambula has passed on. While gathering details for burial, Friday early ...

Malawi is sitting on a time bomb, ready to explode - *If you care for Malawi, Malawians and people living in it, its time you got on your knees and started praying. Regardless of whatever or whoever you belie...

To my Valentine ;-) - Just dropping in to wish happy valentines to my love Flonks! Love u xox !..and everyone else enjoy the good day !

An interesting piece on bicycle ambulances in the Malawi Daily Times - An interesting piece in the Daily Times edition of Monday, February 13th offers yet another dimension on the mediocrity of 'bicycle ambulances'. While my...

The misfortunes of an old party? analysing the factors - what led to the MCP disaster in 2009? read on at an International Relations journal| IPSA *Abstract* In this article, an attempt has been made to explain t...

Increased cases of Africans losing their cash to Japan based used car fraudsters! - For most of us in Africa, buying a brand new car is not easy. We, however, benefit from the booming used car industry in Japan. These cars are generally ch...

The Renovation of a Nation - I have come for a visit to my home village in the district of Thyolo, which is by aesthetic measures one the most scenic places in Malawi. Boundless are th...

Thinking and Praying Radio - My mind keeps busy often because of my work. Sometimes painfully I fail to be outside the radio mindset. Is it that I have become addicted? I like my work ...

Chance and the Youth Troupe - Last week was marvelous. I felt that things were moving forward just as they should be. A moment of sheer certainty, my place here has had meaning. As some...

A lesson learned - Writing from the deep side of tired! After 7 hours of learning important things, two hours of planned socialising, two hours of important phone/skype calls...

How long? - Happy new year folks. I hope 2012 will be a better year for Malawians especially. 2011 was such a debacle, horrible and a year to forget. The economic down...

Dallas FW Star-Telegram Read it: 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' teaches perseverance - Posted Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon Dial, $16.99; ages 7-9 What it's about: This is the inspi...

Grown up fears - Everyone has their fair share of fears but there are some fears which seem to strike people as they get older. By older I mean from that age when people ha...

Grown up fears - Everyone has their fair share of fears but there are some fears which seem to strike people as they get older. By older I mean from that age when people ha...

Malawi Nyasa Times - Nyasa Times: Online newspaper for Malawi including news, features, polls, photos, videos and comments. Go to the official Nyasa Times website. *Nyasa Tim...

Daddy’s Object Lesson - One day, it must have been in 1984, dad taught me a lesson that made sense 20 years later. That evening in 1984, I was asked a question that slept in my ...

Likoma Island - Happy New Year!!!! For the holidays this year, I traveled to Nkhata Bay and Likoma Island with two fellow PCV friends. Here is a rundown of my fab travel...

hello world - Its been a while since I lasted blogged. Almost two years now. I secretly hoped that my blog would just disappear. Almost three years ago, I was introduced...

Life Is Rotten At The Core - Well, life is an unpredictable progress where we are not sure of what will happen tomorrow. Death is perfect evidence that our mission on earth is now over...

Thoughts about feelings of entitlement - This morning as I was praying and thinking about things, I had a profound revelation come to me (well, profound to me anyways): As I was praying and asking...

MY PACIFIC DIARIES; At The Marina - A gentle breeze, the leaves shake gently, tiny waves sweepover the water creating ripples and patterns as the boats rock graciously onthe water, just anoth...

Christmas 2011 - By GC policy, we had to take several days of vacation time before the end of 2011 (or lose those vacation days). So, we decided to go to central Malawi ...

Life in DC - After spending the first few months after of return to the US in Philadelphia, with our daughter, we are now trying to settle into the DC area. Kaye has se...

IZITHAKAZELO OF NGUNI CLANS - Below are some izithakazelo (Kinship group praises) for some nguni or ngoni clans collected from the web. As you may notice some are in Zulu, Xhosa and ot...

MY FIRST DIFFERENT STORY TO WRITE. - How I wished to post this page on my blog the time I got the diploma done. How can I share sorrows and hide cerebrations. Sorry, had no much access to in...

Fall blooms and dies over a few weeks -

Alfred Msadala - Renowned poet, critic and thinker, Alfred Msadala is president of the Malawi PEN Association, which runs projects with schools and communities to promote p...

Charitable status for Westgate/Zingwangwa link? - Following the success of recent events by patients and staff at Westgate Medical Practice, Dundee, Scotland to raise funds for their colleagues in their tw...

Permaculture, Natural Medicine Training, Festivals! - Some photos of October, my last month in Malawi... Diesel Petrol Palibe: a frequent scene these days Somehow China always takes the cake. Alex talks ...

Rudyard Kipling's Words of Wisdom - *by Rudyard Kipling* IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,...

Les Sections Quebecoises: Raising the Bar! - A few months ago I had a great Skype call with Fannie, the president at Polytechnique, where she recommended the idea of holding a Quebec Presidents weeken...

What’s with these festivals? - Looking at the newspapers this month, one gets the impression that all Malawians do is party. Apart from eating, of course. In the next 30 days, Malawian...

The Power Tripper (Pun intended) - *With cavalier insouciance,* *he altered our flag,* *With sheer defiance,* *Like a rampant stag,* *When we stood rooted in trance,* *He stood proudly ...

FROM GREEN GOLD TO CLEAN GOLD. - Can tourism replace tobacco as the country’s main forex earner? For most people, this question is very simple. Tourism can contribute to the country’s econ...

To Lie or Not to Lie.... - To lie or not to lie, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in your culture to bare the loss of pride, and admit you messed up, or to lie about your s...

High rentals in Lilongwe - Finding a house in Lilongwe has become a nightmare, not only for people moving into the city but also for the residents. This is mainly due to the high ...

And I’m Back - After an interesting, challenging, exciting, confusing, frustrating, outstanding, life-altering summer working for EWB in Malawi, I am officially back on n...

Anger - It is good to be angry But not to be wise. It is good to be angry But not to be blind. But we want to be angry It's therapeutic It makes us easy to manipula...

If the shoe fits… - ..doesn’t mean you should wear it. Malawians, this can also be applied to all forms of clothing. Just because it fits you, doesn’t mean you should wear it....

Lunch with primates - Esther and I sat on the terrace of a bourgeois hotel on top of Zomba plateau. There were trees, bushes. There was a manicured lawn and a chess set with pie...

A prayer for malawi - God Help Malawi

Celebrating Life [Cape Town, 4th July, 2011.] - Sometimes I log on to such media like Facebook and notice that some of my friends are complaining about the situation back home in Malawi. Here in my almos...

26 days until we leave Malawi for good - Dear followers, lot’s of things happened in 2011 that we haven’t shared with you and now it’s almost time to say good-bye to this beautiful country and its...

Elephant Fear - Wow, I guess I should be a little embarrassed about my lack of blogging for the last four months. One month sans blog turned into two and then somehow I ...

Tumultous Times - I live in Malawi. I didn't grow up here but I have always been from here and have now returned and settled in. It is a place of remarkable contrasts i...

‘Bingu must blame himself for mass protests’ – PAC by Nyasa Times - This post has been posted here without any permission from Nyasatimes and the author. simply because the original site has been blocked am only trying to s...

Passion. - * * The maker of passion Fights for my freedom to live and love Not only tonight, but forever... Hold my hand and follow me Down to the river To que...

My Glimpses of Malawi - In December 2010 to January 2011 I was in Malawi. I attended a Prison visit with part of a small group called a cell group from Lilongwe Baptist church. My...

No independence for women - Today, July 6, 2011, Malawi is commemorating 47 years of independence. Instead of celebrating, many Malawians are bemoaning the miserable living condition...

WIP - Work In Progress

Transitions - Many of you are on my "group" list and have received an email update from me. However some are not so briefly I want to update you that I am leaving Malawi...

The Difference Between Fake Journalism(film) and real Journalism(real life). - *First and foremost, thank you for showing us a video on photos. It was truly inspiring.* The Pulitzer Prize video was so raw as i watched i...

ARE ALL OUR PRESIDENTS THIEVES? PATRONAGE, AND PREFERMENT - UPDATE - PREFERMENT BY MALAWI COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (macra) A FOUL STINK AT MACRA Only three days after I posted the main item below a clear indicatio...

MALAWI TOBACCO FARMERS CRYING FOUL.. - For so many years now,so many tobacco farmers in Malawi have been complaining of poor tobacco prices offered by the foreighn buyers at the acution floors ...

I’m Working On It… - Sorry for the delay in writing a final post – I’m working on it! It’s crazy how quickly things get busy, but rest assured that I’m processing and working o...

Venus Hottentot, Josephine Baker, now Beyonce - Venus Hottentot, Josephine Baker, now Beyonce Posted April 19th, 2011 by Wandia Njoya in Global ...

Petition the President to Guarantee Academic Freedom - Please Sign! - Petition to the President for Academic Freedom

ENSURE ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN MALAWI Petition - ENSURE ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN MALAWI Petition

Statement on Re-instatement of National Youth Council of Malawi (NYCOM) - The National Youth Taskforce, mandated by a cross section of youth organisations and groups in all parts of the country, would like to commend the State Pr...

DISSAPOINTED WITH THE CONDUCT OF CHANCO STAFF UNION - In her rebarbative cynicism and her mordant clarity, Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) acting president has been to any media house electroni...

Jali Trading Centre -

On the First Lady - Madam Callista Mutharika - *She deserves a salary* *By Hastings Maloya* I always find it difficult and of course tricky to comment on issues related to the country’s highest office ...

Malawi: The country needs a David in Bingu’s service - The current leadership has all the hallmarks of King Saul of old. In order to restore some sanity in the country I suggest three things that need to be don...

SCIENCE & CRITICAL THINKING - *Science & Critical Thinking - the Secular Humanist View* is our regular column in Malawi's Sunday Times Newspaper which we will now publish weekly on this...

Cover Letter writing tips - The Cover Letter is probably one of the most important letters you will ever write. Every CV needs to be accompanied by a great covering letter. As a recru...

price hikes, exports and hunger. - In the wake of rising commodity prices, there’s been quite a bit of talk in the newspapers and blogosphere arguing both sides of the debate. While most of ...

BAM! Africa is scary too! - You should have seen the lightning storm we had last night! Everyone ended up huddled in the middle of the floor as it pounded around us! I was watching ...

From Pakistan, with fond memories - This afternoon, we went up the Margalla Mountains here in Islamabad. There is a fine restaurant there, perched right at the top, such that you can see the ...

Valuing Health Workers: : Implementing Sustainable Interventions to Improve Health Worker Motivation in Malawi - MHEN and VSO Malawi The Government of Malawi has made a firm commitment to addressing the health needs of the country, through the implementation of the Es...

Gratitude - This has been too long in coming, though I have carried it in my heart if not always at the front of my mind as I've made my way in life thus far. I am now...

Lake of Stars - Lake of Stars was unreal. Three days of great music and relaxation on the beach of Lake Malawi made for an unforgettable weekend. Everything started Thur...

Jawless evolution explained - With all respect to the author of this research and article in Science, I would like to express my appreciation of what microRNA's have done in jawless ver...

Its a Long Way to Lilongwe - *By Harry Kooistra* From the air approaching Lilongwe International Airport, Malawi appears a luscious green – an appealing contrast to wintry Michigan. Th...

Heart Healing - This is Glory - just back from Johannesburg. He attends the cardiology clinic I run in Queens. We referred him 18 months ago for repair of his congenital h...

Pictures from our fieldwork - Pictures from our fieldwork in central and southern Malawi in 2009 can be seen at: http://www.steinholden.com/malpics/index.html#home

Nsanje Port:Beyond transportation - The dream in living color or is that technicolor? As Malawians we have been infused with the dream of the Nsanje Inland Port and its long term outcomes for...

Gov’t to abolish Car Ownership Schemes for Parastatals - As budgets squeeze, one of the first areas that many companies including government look for cost savings is the company car fleet. It is often tempting to...

Happy Families - As I got back to the office from the AXA coach station, I saw lots of very proud young people walking out from the Polytechnic having received their degree...

Dedza reels under high population growth - With a population of 624,445 people (2008 Population and Housing Census), 56 per cent of which are young people under 19, the population of Dedza district...

Free Bawo Game App release Delayed - It was originally announced on bawogame.com that Fumba Game Lab*™*** (FGL*™* **) will launch the free downloadable bawo app on the 8th of August, but due ...

LOVE CAN SAVE THE WORLD - By Clement A. Kwizome What is Love? There are a number of definitions which a lot of people can define what love really is. To some love is defined as that...

singing on sunday - ‘if you a scared motherfucker, go to church, go to church.’ – icecube acacia wasn’t scared, but she was curious about God. some sundays she stayed in bed a...

Mr President, let's scrap elections - For one thing they demean us. We as a [...]

Barcamp Malawi 17 - 18 July 2010 - The geeks in Malawi have been reading about Barcamps being held all over the world around their favourite topics. But finally, time has come for Malawian g...

Be a Force for good - Do you ever wonder what your colleagues think about your attitude? Everyone likes a person with a good ‘spirit’ but positive attitudes don’t just happen, t...

eIFL Statement at 20th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 20) held in Geneva, Switzerland 21st to 24th June 2010 #2 - Well done Kondwani. I very much like the content. Keep it up.

We Have Moved - Great to have you here, dear reader because we need to move together. We are at mzatinkolokosa.com You can get in touch on www.mzati@mzatinkolokosa.com Wr...

The Return - You might have had a wonderful literary dish of Ngugi wa Thiong’o served with his novels entitled The river between, A grain of wheat, Devil on the cross, ...

There is Hope LIVE in London - You are invited to a sunset party with live music on Monday 24th May from 6:30pm in the Rutland Arms’ upper room. Watch the sun set over the river from the...

On Aleke Kadonaphani Banda’s death - We the Tonga peoples of NKhata Bay, Nkhota Kota and Mangochi join our beloved brothers and sisters in Malawi and abroad in mourning Aleke Kodaphani Banda ...

Rwanda's laptop revolution | PETER BEAUMONT - Source: The Mail & Guardian Rwanda's laptop revolution PETER BEAUMONT | KIGALI, RWANDA - Mar 28 2010 06:44 Two small boys are standing hunched outside the...

Rejection to Prosperity - *A Woman’s Fight to End Hunger and Poverty in Her Life and Village.* ** *By Zilani Khonje* Driving through Dioni Village in Traditional Authority Msakambwe...

Any Grand Poets Left? - Excerpt from ‘Nadezhda Mandelstam: A visit’ by Bruce Chatwin 1989 … when I pulled out three jars of my mother’s Seville orange marmalade, she stubbed out t...

Gateway Load Balancing and Router Redundancy with HSRP & GBLP - I have two ISP's providing VPN links between my HQ and three remote offices, we are using broadband links and Leased Lines in all the sites, the idea for t...

What about us - People usually choose what to do in life e.g to smoke, drink alcohol and so on. In Europe thus part of life lthough others do not smoking. Yes! it is their...

Vacational QUOTA - Not the pieces that you scribe after a heavy meal. Contending with the reality of life, one is tempted to think what it really means. I have no habit of co...

ON THE COMMEMORATION THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY - “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an...

Round - I can see the world flashing before my eyes, but really it’s only a blur, a multi-coloured blur. There are what appears to be thousands of bright lights f...

Nakalayepo ni zga sukulu ku Sekondare - Usabata yo asilagha, aba boma bafumizizge amita agha bana bo basaliwa kuya pakumanyila ku masukulu gho bakuti agha boma. Mu chisu ichi bati mu amasukulu a...

The Gay situation in Malawi - Last week, both the local and international media reported about the Malawi's First Gay Couple taking matrimonial vows at the first-ever gay marriage in Ma...

Mzuzu City in Pictures -

Absolutely the Warmest Heart of Africa! - by Tammy Mbendera Most information you will find online will begin by telling you of the poverty of this country but that’s just a matter of dollars an...

MEC defies AG order - Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) has defied order from Auditor General (AG) order not to engage PricewaterHouse Cooper, an audit firm without seeking perm...

James dreams of a home - He was born nine years ago. Remembers little of his past life, does not remember his parents neither he remembers if at all he had brothers and sisters. Th...

US Health-Care; a need for a little more 'care' for the poor - My early education taught me that communism is a sin; socialism an error and capitalism the absolute and righteous way. After all, I was the underling of c...

WaPi “Move” - Unfortunately, I took a long time away from the WAPi blog, essentially, to get ready for WAPi. WAPi Move took place on Saturday, July 25, 2009, and was att...

Randy Nasungwi - Old Time Friend - Randy Nasungwi ...

- Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their e...

HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship, a tutorial on getting around filters and blocked ports - HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship, a tutorial on getting around filters and blocked ports

OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND MEANING OF RATIONING - FOLKS, I have no doubt that between now and the next election in 2014 we will see more progressive changes in the country. Like any other citizen, I fully ...

Michael Jackson Malware Has Already Hit the Net - Trojans attempt to exploit the postmortem interest around the late King of Pop. Story by Alex Goldman: Malware writers, always eager to take advantage of br...

Land registration process! - Went to Lands today and the process is as follows: Firstly they will need to produce a sketch plan and map for the area and plot @ K 50,000.00 (Govn rate b...

Pictures from Chipembere in Blantyre, Malawi: Part III - Pictures from Chipembere highway in Blantyre, Malawi

K6.7 billion for city roads - By DEBORAH NYANGULU-CHIPOFYARoads Authority (RA) has set aside K6.7 billion for the rehabilitation and resealing of roads in the cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre...

Patience Part 1 - In recent years (about 3yrs), I have found myself using the word patience for so many times. I have used this word for many reasons but the one that stand ...

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It is with us all...lets face it positively - By Chiku JereThis story tells how HIV and Aids got closer to my life, both as a journalist and an individual.“I got infected because of the loving and caring...

Message of hope - Messages of hope may be presented in many ways. One way to express this message is through music. I recently discovered this song by one of Malawi's singer...

Richard Msowoya: The next second vice President for Malawi - If MCP wins the May 19 elections then former Minister in President Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration Richard Msowoya is expected to be the third powerful...

बकिली मुलुजी इन इदेंतिटी क्रिसिस पोस्ट प्रेसिदेंक्य? - Muluzi in identity crisis post presidency?By Isaac Cheke ZibaIn just about six weeks the Malawi nation heads to the polls – yes the presidential and parliame...

Meet Malawi’s budding clothing designer - Perceptibly, for quite a long time, the Malawian clothing market has been saturated with foreign (unused and second hand) clothes from western, Asian and A...

CHANCO EDUCATION STUDENTS' GRIEVANCES - Number and times University authorities do not handle issues affecting students within a reasonable time frame. It is either they choose they come back to ...

Re-thinking the U.S foreign policy - The post Second World War epoch was marked by increased global hegemony by the United States due to its military might and growing economy. The United St...

GNU OR NOT? - GNU OR NOT? By Andekuche D Samalani Chanthunya The interpretation of Section 65 by the Courts have once again sparked the debate of whether its time to com...

Dr Khumbo Kalua new Blog - I have decided to migrate from this blog to a better one Dr Khumbo Kaluawhere i continue to write about health issues on Malawi. Read the following on my s...

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