Culture
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Character Building
Last week we outlined what the Young Professionals Forum is all about -our vision, mission, and objectives etc. We feel…
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Shakira! Shakira!
I had just emptied a plateful of boiled chicken when Chimimba reappeared with the same girl he had hooked the…
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Emancipate yourself
It’s startling how we sit quiet and die. Few get up and start doing something about their problems though Bob…
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Live from male ward
When you see a man opening the passenger door for a woman, either the woman or the car is new.…
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Joanalisa, the monster
Likening love to war often attracts intoxicating protests from lovebirds. However, this is the sober truth: Love is the only…
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We buried Sibweni
Death of a beer buyer kills  beggars and storytellers twice. Nobody laments this more than Chimutu, who took Chimimba and…
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Dead with a sex worker
The ongoing Euro 2012 was supposed to be a blockbuster for people who take televised football matches as an excuse…
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VIP mess in the club
Roses are thorns. Chimutu’s tavern talk shows love is war—easier to start than to stop. The beer-beggar’s subjects range from…
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Waiting for a quickie
The lack of creativity in the booze business is ridiculously sobering. Club owners could have escaped scorning eyes only if…
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Squeezing lonely hearts
 So long we have been discussing Chimimba’s girl-chasing escapades. Few of those who retell the short-time things the man…
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Happy with lying looks
A sober soul’s paradise is a drunkard’s hell. I realised this when I took Chimutu and his sweetheart from overseas…
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Devalued with kwacha
Rejoice, it’s Joyce. The Economist magazine had no better rhymes for Malawi’s transition from the late president Bingu wa Mutharika…
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Big boss big trouble
When Chimimba’s wife entered the human resource office, rumour-mongers were murmuring that he had added yet another lover to his…
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After greener grass
Whenever something terrible happens, Malawians talk about everything except whether the tragedy could have been avoided if people always remembered…
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Goodbye lipstick stuff
The former Minister of Lipstick and Lip Service never ceased to mesmerise with her tragicomic loudness before the announcement of…
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More than just maids
They are called housemaids. These girls suffer more than just what they are paid for in this sex-loving country -and…
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No free rides any more
Just when I thought free rides are a blessing in time of fuel crisis, Zimbabwean women proved me wrong. They…
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Chipolopolo not sexy
 On Sunday, my wife Caroline gave me a public lecture on HIV and Aids before I left for my…
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Beyond new highways
My moment in the nightlife culture of the Northern Region was muted by murmurs that chiefs want the nearly completed…
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Drunken intellectuals
Good writing is more valuable than files of political rhetoric weighing down the Capital Hill in Lilongwe. If not, why…
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