Notes From The Gutter
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Training a brood of vipers
The sunset of Monday caught me in the middle of pressures of life in a city 320 kilometres away…
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Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one-landlords expect financial civility from the tenant,…
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Why Giddes must go to America
Republicans, I first saw this surviving acoustic music dinosaur play some two decades ago in a tiny, congested space between…
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Muzzling the barbers
A third successive day passed with none of us spotting Magobo around the ghetto. We were getting worried. His whereabouts…
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Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from…
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Hypocrites without borders
The sun eased into the yellow horizon, retiring from a long day of baking the life underneath it. My…
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The ‘In Our Time’ syndrome
We all have stories. But not everyone tells theirs the same. Sometimes the ones that tell theirs better end…
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The case of a falling people
Falling is not a big deal, at least in a ghetto where many people walk around burdened by socioeconomic hardships.…
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In support of the visa idea!
Republicans, why do we usually think so lowly of ourselves to the detriment of our personal or national growth?…
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Goodbye iconic old lady
Good people, it is sorrowful ‘the old lady’ is gone. Old lady is what former exile Archibald Kapote Mwakasungula…
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A country running on rumour!
This country is one funny pot where people walk and think with their tongues. You can watch them wander about…
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The last ride of 2015
Like always, the minibus to my gutter home on Sunday was a platform for unending debate on topics based…
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Nilibe Problem December!
My neighbour surprises me. He is a middle aged party animal who can suck a lake dry. Fridays are for…
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Lamentable taste for foreign art?
Are all foreign artists that good? My best friend in the gutter is an unchained mind. We often sit by…
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Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from…
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Be careful who leads you!
I am not surprised by the already ugly pushing and shoving for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidential race.…
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When art is a critic!
Times are hard in the country, and even harder in our gutters. I have, however, opted to earn clean. That…
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The artist and the political dimwit
Esteemed Republicans, sometimes we unnecessarily allow ourselves to sink lower than we should. This I have concluded from an…
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Lilongwe, Capital of rot?
As a soul privileged to live under veil of the city skies, albeit deep in the gutter, I must cherish…
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A nation that abuses sympathy
Republicans, our nation glorifies mediocrity. Many of our endeavours run on sympathy and that’s where we lose it. Look here,…
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