Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one-landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses are the…
Category: Notes From The Gutter
Why Giddes must go to America
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…
Muzzling the barbers
A third successive day passed with none of us spotting Magobo around the ghetto. We were getting worried. His whereabouts were already the subject…
Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses…
Hypocrites without borders
The sun eased into the yellow horizon, retiring from a long day of baking the life underneath it. My tasks in Blantyre were…
The ‘In Our Time’ syndrome
We all have stories. But not everyone tells theirs the same. Sometimes the ones that tell theirs better end up selling their perspectives…
The case of a falling people
Falling is not a big deal, at least in a ghetto where many people walk around burdened by socioeconomic hardships. The world spins too…
In support of the visa idea!
Republicans, why do we usually think so lowly of ourselves to the detriment of our personal or national growth? Look here, if we…
Goodbye iconic old lady
Good people, it is sorrowful ‘the old lady’ is gone. Old lady is what former exile Archibald Kapote Mwakasungula called the country’s first…
A country running on rumour!
This country is one funny pot where people walk and think with their tongues. You can watch them wander about life like excited ions,…
The last ride of 2015
Like always, the minibus to my gutter home on Sunday was a platform for unending debate on topics based on cheap rumour, misunderstandings…
Nilibe Problem December!
My neighbour surprises me. He is a middle aged party animal who can suck a lake dry. Fridays are for booze. Saturday mornings are…
Lamentable taste for foreign art?
Are all foreign artists that good? My best friend in the gutter is an unchained mind. We often sit by his veranda discussing matters…
Khwekhwerere’s good, bad and ugly
In the gutter, the last week of the month is a hard one — landlords expect financial civility from the tenant, and excuses…
Be careful who leads you!
I am not surprised by the already ugly pushing and shoving for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidential race. But not all candidates…
When art is a critic!
Times are hard in the country, and even harder in our gutters. I have, however, opted to earn clean. That is why I have…
The artist and the political dimwit
Esteemed Republicans, sometimes we unnecessarily allow ourselves to sink lower than we should. This I have concluded from an encounter with a birdbrain…
Lilongwe, Capital of rot?
As a soul privileged to live under veil of the city skies, albeit deep in the gutter, I must cherish any good vibe about…
A nation that abuses sympathy
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…
Careful who leads you!
I am not surprised by the already ugly pushing and shoving for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidential race. But not all candidates…