Feature of the Week
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Disability rights warrior
Last November, rights activist Rachel Kachaje was happy when Stellenbosch University resolved to give her an honorary doctorate in recognition…
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Orange potatoes tackle malnutrition
Dorica Samson knew what malnutrition can do to poor children when her frail son, Chrispin, was bedridden at a rural…
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Lulanga’s stitch in time
A dusty footpath to Nelson Lulanga’s place at Chipoka in Salima District looks less trodden with dry leaves forming a…
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Deported as Covid spreads
Amid an increasingly fierce scramble for jobs and falling crop yield from degraded soils, busloads of young Malawians keep fleeing…
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Forgotten inmate walks free
Last week, on a sunny Tuesday, a frail-looking 41-year-old finally walked to freedom after “wasting 12 years” at Mzuzu Prison…
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Sharing mining gains
As mining firms reap the benefits of Malawi’s emerging extractive sector, dust refuses to settle on local communities’ petitions for…
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Fatherhood and the Coronavirus Pandemic
For the past seven months, the world has been mystified by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which has devastated world economies,…
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Tearful homecomming
In 2019, Madalitso Gombo, from Njolomole in Ntcheu, followed her husband who worked as a gardener in Johannesburg, South Africa.…
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Youth gang up against drugs
After noticing many young people in Area 36 high on drugs and liquor, their peers decided they had to do…
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Pupils electrify Mzimba school
The tale of self-made engineer Corled Nkosi, who electrified Kasangazi Village in Mzimba, has been told too many times. The…
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