My Diary
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May, not so lazy a month
May 24 2023 The Standard 8 English textbook once had a poem about two cows chewing and mooing as they…
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Marching on to 2025
May 18 2023 This is a time to think deeply about our lives. Time to think. Time to reflect. We…
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To collect is not to use
As I write, there is a video clip showing an overzealous police officer chasing Kamuzu International Airport. The officer is…
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A day without news
Today is World Press Freedom Day (WFPD) a day to celebrate freedom of the press. Freedom of the press embodies…
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Maize vanished, no one to answer for it
Between July and September last year, an estimated number of people, representing 13 percent of the country’s population, experienced acute…
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Maize vanished, no one to answer for it
Between July and September last year, an estimated number of people, representing 13 percent of the country’s population, experienced acute…
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Disaster exposes Dodma gaps
March 30 2023 T hat there is a tragedy in our hands goes without saying. Cyclone Freddy has seen one…
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APM politicizing Freddy tragedy, sadly
It has been a traumatic time for Malawi. The nation is at a heavy loss. Cyclone Freddy will definitely be…
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Disaster exposes Dodma gaps
That there is a tragedy in our hands goes without saying. Cyclone Freddy has seen one of the worst tragedies…
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A ditty for Sauka
Malawi on Thursday woke to the sad news that Beatrice Sauka, the widow of the composer of the Malawi National…
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Of crime, the Budget
So, literally, Malawi is a crime scene. Daily, there is news of robberies, gruesome murders, rape and many other crimes.…
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Parliament: Empty talk show
It was clear from the word go that the 50th Session of Parliament would be the usual kindergatten talk show…
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Repairing roads, a headache
February 16 2023 As I write, the rains have reached a stage where the Department of Disaster Management (DoDMA) is…
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Corruption as an elephant
February 2 2023 A story is told of two men who went into a museum way back. In the museum,…
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Tonse has squandered the goodwill
Sometime back, one of the Tonse Alliance partners, Kamuzu Chibambo who is also president of the People’s Transformation Party (Petra),…
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Cholera, AIP and the Cabinet
One good thing about travel is that you get to understand certain things that you normally ignore or take for…
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Corruption as an elephant
A story is told of two men who went into a museum way back. In the museum, the men were…
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Speaking for the mountains
Pheeew! So the eventful 2022 is behind us. Oh what a year it was! Allow me to get into something…
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After the commission, what next?
January 5 2023 So, we were still enjoying the fine and fresh breeze of the New Year. There we were…
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Good-riddance 2022
During the run-up to the June 23 2020 court-sanctioned fresh presidential election, one of President Lazarus Chakwera’s rallying calls was…
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