Category: Notes From The Gutter
March 18, 2016
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one-landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses are the…
March 11, 2016
Republicans, I first saw this surviving acoustic music dinosaur play some two decades ago in a tiny, congested space between Limbe’s market and Chibuku…
March 4, 2016
A third successive day passed with none of us spotting Magobo around the ghetto. We were getting worried. His whereabouts were already the subject…
February 26, 2016
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses…
February 19, 2016
The sun eased into the yellow horizon, retiring from a long day of baking the life underneath it. My tasks in Blantyre were…
February 12, 2016
We all have stories. But not everyone tells theirs the same. Sometimes the ones that tell theirs better end up selling their perspectives…
February 5, 2016
Falling is not a big deal, at least in a ghetto where many people walk around burdened by socioeconomic hardships. The world spins too…
January 15, 2016
Republicans, why do we usually think so lowly of ourselves to the detriment of our personal or national growth? Look here, if we…
January 15, 2016
Good people, it is sorrowful ‘the old lady’ is gone. Old lady is what former exile Archibald Kapote Mwakasungula called the country’s first…
January 8, 2016
This country is one funny pot where people walk and think with their tongues. You can watch them wander about life like excited ions,…
December 31, 2015
Like always, the minibus to my gutter home on Sunday was a platform for unending debate on topics based on cheap rumour, misunderstandings…
December 18, 2015
My neighbour surprises me. He is a middle aged party animal who can suck a lake dry. Fridays are for booze. Saturday mornings are…
December 11, 2015
Are all foreign artists that good? My best friend in the gutter is an unchained mind. We often sit by his veranda discussing matters…
December 4, 2015
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses…
November 27, 2015
I am not surprised by the already ugly pushing and shoving for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidential race. But not all candidates…
November 20, 2015
Times are hard in the country, and even harder in our gutters. I have, however, opted to earn clean. That is why I have…
November 13, 2015
Esteemed Republicans, sometimes we unnecessarily allow ourselves to sink lower than we should. This I have concluded from an encounter with a birdbrain…
October 30, 2015
As a soul privileged to live under veil of the city skies, albeit deep in the gutter, I must cherish any good vibe about…
October 23, 2015
Republicans, our nation glorifies mediocrity. Many of our endeavours run on sympathy and that’s where we lose it. Look here, instead of sweating it…
October 16, 2015
I am not surprised by the already ugly pushing and shoving for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidential race. But not all candidates…