D.D Phiri
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Distance learning uplifts people
Distance and open learning is the new term for what used to be called correspondence education. While in the past…
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How Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart II
When someone asked Chinua Achebe what he would have done if the manuscripts of Things Fall Apart had got lost, he replied:…
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Organisation, economics development agriculture
I have often written on this page that capable managers are of equal importance to engineers. This has been reiterated because…
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Five marriage systems (II)
There are those who think women suffer more violence from the husband under the lobola than underchikamwini or bride service. When challenged to…
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Five marriage systems (I)
In Cultural Anthropology, one of the best books of its kind I have read, Garry Ferraro of the University of…
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Democracy with many faces
Government, it has been said, is a necessary evil. It is the evil we must live with because in its…
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Malawi’s contributions to Southern Africa (II)
In 1912, Pixley Ka Izaka (sic) Seme, a lawyer who had studied in the United States and Britain, summoned a…
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Stray thoughts on education and Chingoni
In The Nation of Tuesday, January 2013, there was a heading ‘Secondary school curriculum review necessary’, under which the principal…
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National and smaller languages II
A Chichewa board was established in Malawi to teach the nation real Chichewa. While accorded recognition to the manner people…
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John Chilembwe in African history
Many years have passed since I saw a large book on African struggle for independence which was authored by a…
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Of national and smaller languages
I have written on a topic with the above heading before. But this was about 15 to 20 years ago.…
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On Malawi and Tanzania relations
On Monday December 24 2012, there appeared on the front page of The Nation a news item headed ‘Church intervenes…
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The road to social and moral decay
Since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1993, some people claim the sort of rights which, if not regulated, can…
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On rights and duties
During the first 30 years of Malawi’s independence, our leader, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, insisted that people should observe four corners…
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On US presidential elections, Malawi’s new party
This year’s presidential elections in the United States, like the one which took place four years ago, has a lot…
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On suspending the law about same sex relationships
In the November 7 2012 issue of The Nation, we read that the spokesperson of the Malawi Law Society (MLS)…
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On minorities and secessions
Recently, I have observed three television scenes that have reminded me of conflicts in Africa whose causes are a bit…
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Threat of wars in Africa and the world
News about wars attracts wide readership or big audiences for the media. In his autobiography titled My Early Life, Winston…
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On promises, the great women of Malawi
On Thursday 11 October 2012, a man turned up at my office and asked me to provide profiles of the…
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A scientist view of God and religion
Three or four years ago, I was locked in a dispute on this page with men who do not believe…
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