Most Malawians who are not from the lakeshore, just like foreigners to Malawi, confess that chambo is the real delicacy from the lake of stars, Africa’s most beautiful lake, Lake Malawi. Of course, they have adequate and justifiable grounds to come to this conclusion. If truth be told, those of us blessed to come from…

I had an exciting post into my WhatsApp inbox recently. It was Henry Kachaje’s writings on foolhardiness of laziness under the guise of faith. I am sure everyone who is technologically enabled has read it. Put simply, it illuminates on the fact that lazy people of zero initiative and determination are a fatalistic lot. The…

Last week, I had an exciting post into my WhatsApp inbox. It was Henry Kachaje’s writings on the foolhardiness of laziness under the guise of faith. I am sure most Malawians are technologically enabled have read it. It illuminates on the fact that lazy and people of zero initiative and determination are a fatalistic lot.…

I had an exciting post into my WhatsApp inbox recently. It was Henry Kachaje’s writings on foolhardiness of laziness under the guise of faith. I am sure everyone who is technologically enabled has read it. Put simply, it illuminates on the fact that lazy people of zero initiative and determination are a fatalistic lot. The…

Iran is back into the global family of commerce and diplomacy thanks to the acumen of seven years of Democrats’ leadership in the White House. It championed determined and dogged six party talks that saw the resolving of the long-standing and sticky challenge of Iran being a State pursuing nuclear weapons and in return a…

  Every entity, be it a nation, State, a body corporate of either a philanthropic or commercial orientation and even an individual, needs a simple essence for success: a Unique Selling Proposition, technically known in marketing and sales as USP. A USP is a DNA that distinguishes, for example, Wilkins Mijiga’s value to the entire…

“The fish rots from the head” Damian Collins, British member of Parliament (MP) on Monday said about football scandal rocking Fifa. MP Collins was commenting disgraceful eight-year bans handed down on each of the Fifa leaders, Sepp Blatter (Fifa president) and Michel Platini (Uefa president and Fifa vice-president). The veracity of the wisdom above is…

Last week’s BBC’s news about the German Police raiding offices of German FA for tax evasion surrounding the awarding of the 2006 World Cup hosting in Germany shocked those of us that looked up to the western countries for inspiration and, as benchmarks for appropriate behaviour, in sports leadership governance. The story goes that the…

An ecosystem in commerce is about the interconnectedness and linkages in the business of the exchange of goods and services. In business language, the currency of an economic ecosystem is value, which is the focus of every activity in that commercial ecosystem. With its roots in biology, the traditional definition of an ecosystem is a…

An ecosystem in commerce is about the interconnectedness and linkages in the business of the exchange of goods and services. In business language, the currency of an economic ecosystem is value, which is the focus of every activity in that commercial ecosystem. With its roots in biology, the traditional definition of an ecosystem is a…

A story is often told about a passenger that got on a bus in Mzuzu, paid a fare for Lilongwe. When they got to Lilongwe, the passenger refused to get off the bus and paid an extra fare to Dedza. Arriving in Dedza, the conductor was agitated because the passenger refused to get off the…

A story is often told about a passenger that got on a bus in Mzuzu, paid a fare for Lilongwe. When they got to Lilongwe, the passenger refused to get off the bus and paid an extra fare to Dedza. Arriving in Dedza, the conductor was agitated because the passenger refused to get off the…

The afternoon of Saturday, September 12 2015, was a wonderful moment of smiles, beautiful singing and speeches full of hope for the children of Mkope School for the Blind, in Traditional Authority (T/A) Nankumba in Mangochi District. The 40 pupils at the school, in the company of their head teacher, special teachers and the Anglican…

Our culture is rich in inspired wisdom. Take for example the one saying that goes “chipande chathelele chikoma nkuyenderana”, extoling and encouraging the virtues and pursuit for reciprocity and translating that life is a two-way traffic. In recent times, the Malawi kwacha has precipitously depreciated against major currencies of the West. With this depreciation, Malawians…

The headline banner at the back of one of the daily papers of Monday August 31 2015 read ‘Carlsberg Cup final raises K29 million’. That banner immediately raised eyebrows of disbelief from both Mighty Wanderers and Big Bullets. Left at that, one would be disappointed, albeit sizeably, especially considering that the final on August 29…

This is a sequel to last week’s discourse on What Happens Upstream Affects the People Downstream. As a matter of fact, the conclusion should have been that everyone gets affected, not only the folks downstream. This thesis gets arrived at informed by hindsight, as they say we are always wiser with hindsight, that itself being…

In the past two weeks, Malawi has been experiencing a spell of power outages, which left most of us puzzled as to why all of a sudden things had deteriorated. It has since been announced this week that this is due to further strained power generation capacity because of low water levels in Lake Malawi…