Malawi recently took a historic step in the fight against child marriage in amending Section 22 of the Constitution, calming the...

The World Bank Group has taken a significant step announcing resumption of aid to budget support in Malawi, after more than three years...

In February 2006, Professor Ken Robinson delivered a momentous talk at TED2006. The entertainment aside, his talk hinged on the mistake...

Many social ills continue to wreck havoc in this our motherland. Somehow, bolts and nuts seem to be getting loose in almost every...

Global politics took an inward-looking turn in many of the key financier countries of global development in 2016. Plans to deepen...

On Wednesday, 22 March 2017, the President of Malawi, Peter Mutharika, made the assertion in Mangochi District that will likely let the...

The Integrated Financial Management Information System, or to use its famous short name, IFMIS, took off in Malawi as early as 1995,...

A perspective emerged as the world weathered the effects of the financial crisis and its implications compelling countries to tighten up...

Both colonialism and the semblance of development that followed it taught us, Malawians, the tradition of hiring house help, or who...

Days of almost deafening silence have passed since George Thapatula Chaponda – a.k.a. Bulldozer – was relieved of his duties, pending...

In our recent article on the maize procurement saga we all devoutly call Maizegate, we made a rather strong case that cast doubt in the...

Early January 2017, a bridge collapsed on the M1 road between Phwezi and Chiweta in the North. Wait a second, this is the link between...

Malawi’s hunger games are becoming bizarre. In an effort to quell a looming disaster, President Peter Mutharika’s government issued MK28...

Someone recently wondered whether a country would make developmental progress if policy makers were to pay attention to college projects....

Published in the author's personal capacity. A recent conversation with a friend on the question of the effectiveness of social...

2016 was indeed a remarkable year of women. As we published our last piece of the year, Christine La Garde, head of the International...

So much happened in 2016. History was made, and history was changed. We glued our eyes to the screens, to the papers, and our ears to...

In the era of Malawi’s proudly self-proclaimed “Mandasi lady,” a.k.a., president Joyce Banda, there were close to a million registered...

The year 1997 had high profile events for Malawi. The world buried Princess Diana, an embattled royal who revealed the many scandals...

The electricity problem in Malawi has never been an insurmountable challenge. Rather, it has been let free to escalate to its current...