Culture
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Chewa’s Kulamba ceremony on Saturday
The cultural pilgrimage of the Chewa’s from Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique, the annual Kulamba Ceremony, takes place on August 31,…
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Offerings: A dying culture?
The story of giving sacrifices is not new in Malawi. It is a tradition that comes from the biblical story…
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Kungoni Cultural Centre: A proud home of culture
A visit to Dedza District cannot be complete without stopping over at the Kungoni Cultural Centre. Founded in 1976, the…
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When cleanliness is an abomination
Usually people are distinguished by the customs they follow during funerals, weddings and other rites of passage events. One such…
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Is the concept of kumudzi dying out?
Now that the long holiday is here in the past parents would send children to the village (kumudzi) for holidays.…
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Waist beads resurfacing?
In this era when so much is getting lost in modernity; when many wives would gladly choose a bar of…
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Are men still head of house?
A common wedding says women should persevere whatever they meet in their families. But that song has died out and…
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Funeral rite in shaving heads
A people’s culture is usually determined by the practices they follow, usually as a rite of passage, during weddings and…
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Sexual maturity among Lhomwe girls
Among the Lhomwe’s and other tribes in Malawi a rite of passage is marked by an initiation ceremony. Girld who…
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Mbirigha: A token to a husband
Giving out a daughter to a man for marriage transfers the parental role of the wife’s parents to the man.…
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Are powers of the uncles fading?
Change is one element that has exceptionally rocked the world. If we are to press the refresher button and reflect…
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Nthano or Ndano a fading tradition
There used to be a time when the moon came out and children sat around the elders in the communities…
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The Rasta way of life
In Malawian society, we have seen various cultures changing to suit the demands of time. Rastafarians are a group of…
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UK diaspora celebrates Malawian culture
Africa is a rich continent with remarkable cultural diversity and affluent natural resources yet for so long it has been…
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Twins: A blessing or a curse?
A girl is abandoned in a stream at birth, some distance away from where she is born. However, throughout the…
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Mixture of cultures in chinkhoswe ceremony
Culture being the learned behaviours that identify people and differentiate groups of people seems to be changing drastically. Recently, in…
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Namibian culture of shebeens
The internationally accepted definition of culture by Unesco states that it includes “the whole complex of distinctive, spiritual, material, intellectual…
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As traditions evolve over time
There is an adage that says change is inevitable. The way a lot of things such as dressing, language, food…
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Preparing a Chewa girl for marriage
In the past, for a man and a woman to live together as husband and wife among the Chewa’s, there…
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Mrs Wang’s husband is not Mr Wang
In their book 101 Stories for Foreigners to Understand Chinese People, Yi S. Ellis and Bryan D. Ellis explain that…
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