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Mobile phones to find home in classrooms
Despite being debatable, there appears to be a thread of agreement among various stakeholders that not far from today, mobile…
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Seeking contraceptives, failing to get them
There is big, but subversive business going on along Victoria Avenue in Blantyre. Vendors are taking advantage of the…
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When sugar cane theft derails relocation from floods
Group village head (GVH) Kalima was a devastated man just as were his subjects when floods hit his area in…
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Recreation of disaster
A half-finished building with gaping holes meant to be windows is deserted. There are no children on the playground. The…
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Searching mobile phone space in classrooms
In this third part of mobile phones and education in Malawi’s education, our senior news analyst EPHRAIM NYONDO explores views…
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Challenging stereotypes against disability
Beatrice Phiri, a humble lady living with a permanent disability in Chavunguluma Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Chulu in…
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Pains of the elderly in times of disaster
On January 7 2015, Esnart Bokosi, 62, from Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya in Chikwawa escaped death by a whisker.…
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Long sail to examinations
From the grey sandy soils of Nsombi, Lungazi and Ngotangota villages along the eastern shores of Lake Chilwa, school children…
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Balancing education, livelihood
While fellow students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima), are in class or…
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Visually-impaired soars in a trade of the sighted
Usually, the journalism profession favours those with eyesight—reading, writing and running around are all something one generally feels only the…
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Bitter pills of gender inequality
Zenifa Tembo from Mvula Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Kanyenda in Nkhotakota District walks about two kilometres to find…
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Innovating with a motorcycle
Justin Phiri, a 25-year-old young man in Kasungu rural, strongly believes that people do not literally have to wait…
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Mobile phones in classrooms: Friend or foe?
Mobile phones have fundamentally changed not only how we communicate, but how we think, behave and live. But can they…
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Magic and murder: albinism in Malawi
Mbango Chipungu has a good job and lives in an upmarket suburb in Lilongwe, but he cannot remember the…
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To survive in business, make the distance
Building your own business is not a sprint, but a marathon, with hills, headwinds, heat and dust. Those who succeed…
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Goats for keeping girls in school
Sub-Saharan Africa is still, in the disdain words of former British prime minister Tony Blair, a scar on the…
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Fighting HIV and Aids the Islamic way
Growing up, Aisha heard so little about the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) as elders around her were reluctant…
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‘If you lose the foreskin for a benefit, you’ll not have lost’
The way people conduct themselves when they come to visit him at his compound—whose entry has a wooden tower with…
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Stench in our cities
In Blantyre’s Ndirande Township, living or doing business in a waste-free environment is a dream. This is what Ben Chabooka…
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Battling nurses’ shortfalls
In 2004, Malawi’s health system was described as close to collapse due to chronic shortage of human resources. Over…
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