My Turn

Playing with failure (I)

Success is something we all want to be associated with. We are all eager to celebrate our successes by shouting…

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Msinja, Malawi’s Ancient City (I)

The Project Malawi website describes Lilongwe as a place that “was a simple trading centre in the late 1950s, having…

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Whither constitutional supremacy?

It is now close to two decades since Malawi became a democratic State and adopted a new Constitution. Throughout the…

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Get into the appropriate culture

Last year, I went into a voluntary programme to help a small group of Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE)…

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The social dimension in Lake Malawi dispute

A few weeks ago, I attended an international workshop. One of the presentations was on the historical analysis of the…

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Statistics in a nutshell

I am sure many of us can relate to the term ‘statistics,’ albeit in different ways. Maybe the most notable…

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Msyamboza: The silent hero of Dowa (I)

In his interesting article The Gems of Dowa in The Nation of November 26 2012, Joshua Chienda bemoans the irony…

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Blantyre and Zomba need an urban link

The shifting of Malawi’s capital from Zomba to Lilongwe paralysed the former capital’s growth. In 1966, Zomba Town was Malawi’s…

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Show me your product

I recently came across a lady venting out her frustration over the lack of durability of a pair of shoes…

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Visual arts in Malawi’s social realm

For some time, I have been perplexed by the question: What kind of visual arts practice is relevant to the…

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