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Health
Rural clinic halts children deaths
Makoli Village is just about 14 kilometres from Mangochi District Hospital, but it takes almost seven hours to pass through…
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Editors Pick
Hiding behind laws to accomplish digital surveillance
For close to 10 years now, the Malawi government has been gathering personal information of its citizens and stockpiling it…
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Health
Chief leads Covid fight
When Malawi first got to know about the coronavirus, Malawians did not expect the disease to find its way into…
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Editors Pick
Nine years of a ‘Spy Machine’
Back in October 2011, all Malawi’s four telecommunication service providers, sent identical text messages to subscriber Alick Kimu on his…
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National News
Bank rebukes MW on graft
The World Bank country manager Greg Toulmin has said corruption is one of Malawi’s major obstacles to prosperity. Malawi is…
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National News
AG evasive on IFMIS saga
Bidding was done in 2015. 12 bidders expressed interest. World Bank pulled out, process halted. K5 billion set aside to…
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Society
Untold Story of Anjiru Fumulani
Anjiru Fumulani, the 35-year-old band leader of the famous Black Missionaries reggae band has an interesting story. It looks like…
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Following up on Beam’s musical equipment
A couple of months ago, Malawi First Lady Gertrude Mutharika donated sets of musical instruments to University of Malawi’s Chancellor…
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Development
Luanar’s 50-50 programmes
In 2013, Malawi ratified a regional agreement to accommodate equal numbers of men and women in decision-making positions. However, the…
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Atoht Manje rising from the ghetto furore
Ellias Missi known in showbiz cycles as Atoht Manje is one self made artiste. I first saw him as an…
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Cosoma is guilty as charged
It all started immediately after gospel songbird Grace Chinga died. Her music started suffering serious piracy that the family members…
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Ujeni records is too good to be true
A Norwegian man going by the name of Karstein Grønnesby announced recently that he has established a record company called…
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Picking stars in the urban genre
There is always talking of deterioration of serious music in Malawi. The general feeling especially from the old folks is…
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A speck in the glamorous Nyasa Music Awards
On May 5 2017 the Comesa Hall in Blantyre was host to the inaugural show for Nyasa Music Awards. If…
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Quantity versus quality in live shows—Part I
This week as I took a walk around Motel Paradise I couldn’t help it but notice the numerous posters advertising…
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The ‘Wadutsa Pompa’ rivalry
The first time I ever remember of rivalry over one particular song is when Annie Matumbi did collaboration with Nelson…
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Computer manipulated Reggae music
You remember those days when artists would go into the studio and separately record all the guitars, drum beat, vocals…
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Sangie gives her music a women theme
The unique approach to this male-dominated industry has earned Sangie, the upcoming female artist, much respect among music lovers and…
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Do we have a song for re-edition?
I read in the Jamaican The Sunday Gleaner of April 2, 2017 that it has been over 40 years since…
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Business as usual at Wendy’s launch
Considering that Wendy Harawa is a good buddy of mine I should have been waxing lyrical about the launch of…
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