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Whither Malawian cartoons?
Jah people, it is not unusual to see cartoonists cartooning around with our minds. This is not to make fun…
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We survived MAM Awards
Jah people, greetings from my sickbed. But mine is the pain hardly emanating from this little trouble. Rather, it is…
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MAM music awards another sham
Like guardians raping children they ought to safeguard, Music Association of Malawi (MAM) has defiled standards by hurrying into awards…
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Poetry is Thangata
Jah People, the gods of written and spoken word art, have blessed us with good people we love to impoverish.…
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Adieu 2013
Jah people, 2013 is dead. Talking about graves, gone is the year we lost artists who kept smiles on our…
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Dressing to kill?
Jah people, half of the festive season has elapsed and the ending has already begun. Accept my belated best wishes…
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Contracts are serious business
Jah people, it seems there is no end to scandals hitting the personalities that entertain us with their musings. This…
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An ode to Mandela, Blacks
Jah people, time is the master. When I sat down to scribble a few musings on Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical film Long…
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Musings from Cashgate Bar
Jah people, Cashgate is catchy. Allan Nyalo, who has renamed his bar after the K120 billion corruption scandal, seems spot…
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Are we gender blind?
Fellow Malawians, the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence commenced Monday—a day after a girl aged 14 or so…
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Fun-starved dead North living
Jah people, who said Mzuzu is the heart of a fun-starved Northern Region? What pessimists call “the Dead North” did…
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Kunkuyu is right, but…
Good people, new Minister of Tourism and Culture Moses Kunkuyu’s sermon on rampant piracy and dilapidated Blantyre Cultural Centre could…
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Telling our stories
Good people, not all is doom and gloom in our Malawi which has been mercilessly ransacked by a mafia-like syndicate…
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DJs: the good and the great
Art lovers, disk jockeying is serious business. Save for their funny names—Pink Panther, Dude the Smasher, Mbuzi, Ng’awuuu—the souls on…
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Indifference is a death threat
Art lovers, my job is not without life-threatening risks. Absurdly, two recycled comedians from a State-sponsored ensemble found it newsworthy…
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Arts no aside
Art lovers, my lamentations of the country’s abhorrently prosy poetry have irked the kindred I love heartily—the poets. Comparing the…
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Fests, fun, greed
Jah people, the just-ended City of Stars in Lilongwe has set a season of festivals into motion. The motion kick-started…
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On prosy Malawian poems
Jah people, poetry is dying and history will not judge the ‘now’ generation kindly. The free-fall of Malawian poetry was…
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…and Mr Splash speaks out!
Jah people, reggae king Bob Marley teaches us that time is the master. And that ticking master has allowed us…
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Garbage in, garbage out
Jah people, competition is nothing without upholding rules of the game. Two spectacles (or debacles) happened this week that affirm…
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