Politics of ‘kutola chikwama’
19 May 2022 President Lazarus Chakwera has a particular way of sloganeering. His way with playing with words is his...
My Diary
Tonse government that never was
May 11 2022 Politicians are busy repositioning themselves on how, again, to fool Malawians and get their vote in 2025....
‘Big Brother’ Chakwera is watching you
May 5 2022 George Orwell’s Animal Farm has always been a call of point for socio-political discourse. The book produces...
Caesar milking a very thin cow
It is clear that the Tonse Alliance administration is a talking government, whose delivery is next to zero. For that...
Lost in social media frenzy
Malawi moves at a supersonic speed so much that events overtake our perceptions on the necessary issues. Social media has...
A lot from inspecting crops
April 14 2022 So, President Lazarus Chakwera has been up and down the country inspecting crops. The crop inspections have...
Competing to do wrong
April 7 2022 It is apparent that the government of President Lazarus Chakwera is downspiralling at a supersonic speed. While...
It is a tired script, Your Excellency
President Lazarus Chakwera during the week went about inspecting crops and addressing development rallies. The crop inspection tours were conducted...
Bail pending appeal, a real thorn
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday reserved its ruling on an application by convicted former minister of Homeland...
Oh hail, the lords of floods
Malawi is devastated. The destruction caused by Cyclone Ana and, just last week, Cyclone Gombe, are heartrending. Lives have been...
Leave no room for impunity
March 3 2022 As I write, the demonstrations organised by the Citizens Against Impunity and Corruption are expected tomorrow. The...
No tolerance for intolerance
February 24 2022 As I write, the Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine has invaded major world news outlets. But that, locally...
Nankhumwa: Endangered as a pangolin
February 17 2022 We all have known the devastation our country is going through. The environmental degradation we have in...
Malawi is quite funny ha-ha
Malawi is funny. It is funny strange, not funny ha-ha as some would want you to believe! What else would...
Of Chizuma, Chalamanda and other matters
Former president Bakili Muluzi once said that Malawians forget so easily. Nobody could put it better: We are a forgetting...
Deeper meaning in BBC onslaught
As I write this afternoon, there have been Malawians storming the BBC News Africa page on Facebook, tearing the broadcaster...
No sacred cows on Covid funds
What started as a simple citizen demand to the Department of Disaster Management (Dodma) to make public expenditure reports on...
Here was a Tutu, when comes another
As I write, there is only one day before we go into 2022. Whew! What a year 2021 has been!...
Tonse can as well arrest ‘omanga mvula’
December 15 2021 Some people are born heroes, others have heroism thrust on them. Yet others, like Bon Kalindo, have...
Tonse can as well arrest ‘omanga mvula’
December 15 2021 Some people are born heroes, others have heroism thrust on them. Yet others, like Bon Kalindo, have...
