Society
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Poor sanitation at festival
People selling merchandise at a makeshift market during last weekend’s Lake of Stars Festival at Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi have…
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Will industrial hemp bring economic miracles?
Government last week announced that President Peter Mutharika had approved the cultivation of industrial hemp for trial purposes. The approval…
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Treat everyone diagnosed with HIV
Treat everyone diagnosed with HIV is the sum of the World Health Organisation (WHO) new guidelines that came out on…
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Have you been cured?
I would love to hear from people who have been cured of HIV and Aids. Please send me your testimonies.…
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Should Malawi scrape off presidential insult laws?
Last week, 60-year-old Alinafe Paul of Balaka was arrested, charged and fined K3 000 ($5) or spend three months in…
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Poet dramatises poems on DVD
While most of us judge poetry as the best units of language arranged and exploring figures of speech in rhyming…
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Mimic of politics
Mimickers providing different dimension to comedy During Malawi Congress Party (MCP) rule, mimicking a president was almost unthinkable. It would…
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Why do religions encourage couples to marry within their faith?
For newly married couples things seem all rosy and blissful. During this time, usually referred to as the ‘honeymoon stage’,…
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Don’t believe everything on the Internet
If you believed everything that came through on the Internet, we would all be beneficiaries of millions of dollars…
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Ageing with HIV
Today, people living with HIV receiving treatment can expect a near normal lifespan – something twenty years ago sounded…
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Unmasking Gule wa Mkulu
Among the Chewa culture, Gule wa Mkulu is a serious matter. Officially recognised by Unesco in 2006 as a heritage…
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Gomani Ngonis and their odd terms
Language is a marker of cultural identity and the two are intrinsically intertwined. It is a fact that terminologies used…
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Should inmates be accorded conjugal rights?
Prison is extremely tough and most times unbearable. No one wishes to experience it. In order to improve the situation…
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Fashion and HIV
Very recently a very successful event was held in Lilongwe that brought together young upcoming fashion designers, men signing up…
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Does talking about sex encourage children to have it?
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled ‘I think my child is having sex’ whose main message was to…
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When art meets politics…
When art meets politics, something has to give. The late Mao Tse-tung, the founding father of the People’s Republic of…
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Political party ownership syndrome: Is this the end?
The issue of ownership of political parties was in the spotlight last week after People’s Party (PP) provincial governor…
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Katema Beni
Beni, a popular dance among Yaos, evokes emotions of the two world wars. Brought to Malawi by local ex-military men…
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HIV and the brain
A lot of people associate HIV as a disease that attacks the immune system enabling opportunistic diseases to manifest, viral…
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Spiritual poetry on TV
When he was asked what art poetry is and what a poet actually does, renowned and legendary man of verse…
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