Songs, sorrows about Chikangawa
Kondwani Munthali should be congratulated on his feature on the Chikangawa Forest published in The Nation of February 17 2012....
Columns
Climate change mitigation, adaptation
Climate change is an outcome of changes of several environmental phenomena which include bio-geo-chemical cycles, ecosystems, water resources, resource utilisation,...
Who cares about the stadium?
When I first heard that government had decided to construct a sports stadium in Lilongwe with Chinese funding, I just...
Malawi’s real wealth, misconceptions
The political weather of Malawi is stormy and acrimonious, largely because the Ministry of Information and Civic Education has not...
War against corruption
On February 5 2012, I was one of the people who filled the College of Medicine hall in Blantyre to...
The hegemony of traditional leaders
Leading or ruling a country as President Bingu wa Mutharika and his DPP are doing in this country is like...
Will MPs dance on economy’s tomb?
Honourable Folks, as representatives of the people in Parliament are mulling over the mid-year budget report of Finance Minister Ken...
Three years? Bingu must be joking
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 By the time you read this, Finance Minister Ken Lipenga will have delivered a mid-term review of...
President ‘used to be’
Like most families in the Northern Region, particularly Karonga, I too used to have an uncle who trekked to the...
Diversification: Whose responsibility?
Malawi is economically sitting on a time bomb. When time comes and the bomb explodes, there may be the dreaded...
Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases
Though much of the world has never heard of diseases like lymphatic filariasis or schistosomiasis, these and other neglected tropical...
Reconciliation over private investment
Since there are cogent reasons both for encouraging foreign direct investment and banning it, in practice, what do governments do?...
Ecama must be relevant
Over the past year, the Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) has never ceased to depress me with its increasing irrelevance....
Economics versus justice
When we read of how newly-industrialised countries of the Far East emerged from the Third to First world economies, we...
Melanoma: A deadly hidden cancer
Being an orthopaedic surgeon and a member of the Chinese medical team, I was sent to Malawi by my mission...
Thanks for the free bulbs, but…
It has been a long wait but finally, it seems, former Finance minister Ken Kandodo’s promise that government will distribute...
Close your gaps
People who excel in their careers and professions spend a lot of time setting their goals, analysing their stand and...
On Malawi’s health financing system
Universal coverage implies guaranteeing access to appropriate mix of health services: (preventive, curative and rehabilitative) care to all citizens at...
Youths make dictators, too
The push by young people in Malawi to assume leadership in 2014, is sensible and appealing. The youthful population has...
Private foreign investment
...Continued from Friday Last week, we discussed arguments in favour of foreign investments. Today, we will look at arguments against...
