Just a Coincidence

Absurd laws, absurd country

I find it particularly absurd to learn that there is something that looks like a presidential and exclusive nature of…

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On indigenous chickens, some feedback

A few weeks ago, I posted an entry about care for indigenous chickens. I received a number of interesting feedback…

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Who wins Miami Dade?

In a couple of days, the United States presidential elections will be done and over with. Who wins or not…

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To travel to Belgium or Liberia

I am writing this piece when I have just returned from an official, call it business if you will, trip…

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How short can the President’s convoy be?

Among the many proposals, let me call demands, that have been towards President Joyce Banda is that the length of…

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Well done Joyce Banda

Let me start by recognising the 30-percent salary cut that Vice-President Khumbo Kachali announced for himself and his boss, President…

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While you were away

When my place of work had ‘unlimited’ resources, there were these sticky paper message pads. If it happened that someone…

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Democracy by voting?

The interpretation of whether there was or there was not democracy at the Peoples Party Convention can vary from yes…

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Not knowing pains me

I read a news article which stated that “Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara, sold his shares in…

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Where we differ fromKenyans

  I think many of us Malawians know that Kenyans and Malawians are not exactly similar in the way we…

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Who wants to die for Malawi? Not me

It is often in vogue to appear patriotic and say: “Well, I am ready to shed my blood and I…

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If we only knew the truth

I never knew, but the visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in some ways put our country on…

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Lake Malawi belongs to Malawi and Mozambique

Several years back, I had commented in this newspaper on the border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania on Lake Malawi…

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Learning from other people’s mistakes

I was reading one of the magazines from my church. The following quote caught my eye: “When an individual hits…

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Reporting the July 20 murders

I am writing this article having watched and listened to the President’s press conference on the July 20, 2011 Commission…

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A new beginning, but…

I was at an international meeting at the same time President Joyce Banda was at the Queen Diamond Jubilee and…

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What is the root of the problems?

I was interested in Mzimba West MP, Honourable Billy Kaunda’s parliamentary submission where he asked Minister of Home Affairs what…

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Muluzi’s lost decade

On 28th May 2012, a local radio announcer talked about Mrs Emmie Chanika and me in our capacity as authors…

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Nothing new in Joyce Banda speech?

I have read with interest comments that there was in fact nothing new in President Joyce Banda’s speech at the…

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Don’t fire Ken Lipenga

I write to join the group or be the only one if that group doesn’t exist yet who are against…

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