Until we become citizens
Not once, but twice, has Steve Nhlane, State House spokesperson, uttered words confirming that we, Malawians, are subjects not citizens...
Not once, but twice, has Steve Nhlane, State House spokesperson, uttered words confirming that we, Malawians, are subjects not citizens...
University students, especially those at Chancellor College and The Polytechnic, are always in the news. Of course, that is not...
In August this year, I read an article in US Time magazine about the bustling rise of Rwanda. Of course,...
I am seeing an important silver lining in the cashgate scandal. Just observing how the government—add the opposition—has handled the...
Some people, and they are many, have faulted Egyptians for ousting the democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi. A democratically elected...
Donors’ resolve to halt budgetary support isn’t necessarily a direct response to the looting at Capital Hill. If the act...
Why, if I may ask, was the wealth which Dr Kamuzu Banda primitively accumulated when he ruled turned into a...
I get surprised when our presidents appear troubled with leading a warm nation that is Malawi. I think it all...
Biology can sometimes provide the best answers to social and political questions that beset humanity. Just consider how interrelated pregnancy...
There is a ‘Bingu’ in President Joyce Banda. Almost all the finest words calling Mrs Banda to publicise her declared...
Journalism can be evil, sometimes. With its philosophy of ‘bad news is good news’, it is quite easy—especially if you...
The increased public outcry for Parliament to divulge details of Mrs. Joyce Banda’s declared assets is a critical national priority,...
Today, I am celebrating the great life of national service, my father who, at 60, and after 36 years of...
I know that even John Tembo himself surely understands that he cannot win the presidency. Do I have a reason?...
Had it been that Speaker of Parliament Mr. Chimunthu Banda was man of honesty, a servant of the people and...
We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. These lines from T.S Elliot’s 1925 poem The Hollow Men...
Some people, and they are many, have faulted Egyptians for ousting the democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi. A democratically elected...
During the eight years he was Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a belligerent public stance to the world, and thus...
Our leaders are always failing Malawi. That is the impression you get whenever you get close to public political discourse....
John Kapito drove me from Capital Hotel in Lilongwe to our offices somewhere along Chilambula road early last year. We...