Long walk to fighting breast cancer
As the world unites in commemorating breast cancer awareness month, a month designed specifically to raise awareness of the disease, Malawi still has a…
Category: Life & Style
Professor Address Malata: First Must female Vice-Chancellor
The name Professor Address Malata is no ordinary name, especially when we talk of women who are making great achievements in the country. She…
Chrissy Zimba: Promoting employment rights for youth with disabilities
At the age of 11, Chrissy Duma-Duma Zimba, now aged 30, fell from a mango tree at her home village in Mzimba, breaking her…
CCAP moderator urges faithful to fulfil vows
Mangochi CCAP Pastor Reverend Manford Kutani has reminded his faithful to honour pledges of supporting the church, which they made with God early this…
Dealing with infertility in today’s marriages
Hayley (not real name) has been married for four years but does not have a child with her husband, whom she met when they…
Jeranjie Kamfose
Often, people take for granted their ability to read and write with ease. But imagine what it would be like to look at a…
No baby? None of your business
There is tremendous pressure put on married couples to have children soon after they get married. Often, questions such as when are you having…
Of relationships and success
People go into relationships for various reasons. While some may prefer to go into a relationship to find true love, some may prefer to…
For natural hair enthusiasts
Growing and maintaining natural hair nowadays seems to be the new type of ‘swagg’ mostly among ladies who opt not to use other chemicals…
Zaithwa Fabiano-research scientist
They say everyone has the strength, the patience and passion to reach for the moon and that if you fall, you will land on…
Zeria Banda-Teacher turned journalist geared to make a difference
Zeria Banda started out as a teacher geared to make a difference in the lives of secondary school students. Today she works as communications…
Ruth Mumba, helping Mbando village with health and technology
Ruth Mumba started volunteering when she was 17-years-old. Her volunteering spirit took her to enriching 95 households from a Facebook encounter in Mbando village,…
Joyce Mvula, Malawi’s’ outstanding Netball shooter
Joyce Mvula, the Queens shooter led the team high and fighting to position six after having fallen off a sixth ranking in the world.…
Justice Rachel Sikwese appointed United Nations judge
Justice Rachel Sikwese, at 49, is Judge to the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT). The youngest to ever sit at the tribunal, Sikwese will…
Charity Salima: Nurse and Midwife Extraordinaire
While others practise nursing and midwifery just to earn a living, the story is different for 60-year-old midwife, Charity Salima who comes from Lichale…
Juliana Kaduya, Mayor of Lilongwe City
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Chilinde 1 Ward Councillor, Juliana Kaduya is Mayor of Lilongwe City, the first female elected in the city. However,…
Agnes Kanjala creating digital financial platforms/ uplifting farmers lives
Agnes Kanjala designs digital financial services products geared toward achieving financial inclusion in Malawi and Zambia. She is a 2019 Mandela Washington Fellow, a…
Catherine Gotani Hara
Catherine Gotani Hara is the First Female Speaker of Parliament in the history of Malawi, a lawmaker with the country’s main opposition party, Malawi…
Trusting strangers is risky
Each morning, I observe a group of students from a certain school hitching a ride. These pupils leave their homes early every morning,…
Eustina Ndaona: Risks her life to fend for her family
They say faith is a belief, so too is fear. To 18-year-old Eustina Ndaona of Phalombe, the two are just sides of the same…
