Feature of the Week
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Commercial agriculture: way to go?
Challenges facing rice production are part of the broader story of Malawi’s small-holder driven agriculture failing to take off and…
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When culture, education marry
When culture and education marry, the results can be phenomenal. BRIGHT KUMWENDA, our special projects editor, writes about how the…
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To be a mother in Malawi is a curse
Child birth in Malawi and many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is a game of chance, with many women dying from…
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A toilet that feeds a family
Most households in Malawi look up to their farms for food. The majority yield insufficient harvests because they cannot afford…
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Highs, lows of early childhood development
It is said that a child who attends kindergarten does well in primary school and later stages of life. Despite…
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Homeless but sheltering multitudes
When she first came to Malawi in 1974 fresh from studying paediatrics in her native Italy, little did Sister Rita…
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Baking waste into wealth
Many slum dwellers do not have a lot of alternatives. With no or limited educational qualifications and access to loans…
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The surgeon and his knives
Dr Carlos Gomez Varela, 37, is one of the few surgeons Malawi has. He has performed over 5 000 surgeries,…
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Creating an HIV-free generation
The Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) has been around for a while now. Although the initiative has faced all manner…
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The haunted house at Biwi
It is the kind of tale you would expect to hear from South Africa, in movies or places where crime…
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Waterproofing Chikhwawa from disaster
Every year, the Lower Shire district of Chikhwawa gets in the news for reasons that are both bad and lethal:…
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‘I have burnt 46 human bodies’
When Fanuel Moffat started working at the Hindu crematorium in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, he never expected to be more than…
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A slum saving itself from itself
Senti slum in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, is a tangle of structures that pass for houses, toilets and other buildings. So…
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‘My uncle raped me over and over again’
For many years, Mirriam [not real name] kept a secret that haunted and tortured her. Raped regularly by her uncle…
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Mingling with the dead
Lufeyo Mphimbi is no ordinary man. His life revolves around the dead. Now, the dead are not anybody’s friend, so…
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Meeting the crocodile man
Teachers spend hours and years trying to shape students. But for one man, every day is potentially his last as…
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Dealing with the menace of defilement
Defilement and rape are increasingly becoming a pandemic in Malawi. This is a fact that worries Inspector General of Police…
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Portrait of Chembe Village
When Kondwani Kamiyala went to Cape Maclear on January 25 2013, he was grateful to be back alive. Not that…
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Kamuzu was not a dictator’
He has been a Cabinet minister, has headed Malawi’s central bank, University of Malawi, Press Corporation, was probably the closest…
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From victim to father of street kids
After successfully escaping from the life of a street kid, fate dealt Godknows Maseko another painful experience that saw him…
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