Timid and shy: Malawi’s businesses beyond dictatorship
Times hit hard since embracing multipartyism in the early 1990s in our small country. And while capitalism under our young democracy was...
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Tiunike Online
- Jun 11, 2018
- 5 min
The Flipside of Malawi’s Educated Elites
5 June 2018, a Tuesday Peter Mutharika promised Malawi would sublime into European-like infrastructural marvel and standards of living,...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
- May 28, 2018
- 5 min
2019 Elections Must Be Different for Malawi
Malawians remain on the fence insofar as politics is concerned. The craving to challenge the status quo is almost inexistent, and the...
Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
- May 7, 2018
- 5 min
Women’s Rights and Politics: Getting Young Women Involved
Youth in politics have been marginalized for as long as post-independence self-rule has existed in Malawi. The look of our political...
Tiunike Online
- Apr 30, 2018
- 5 min
A Game of Weakening Institutions and Politics in Malawi
In the just past week, the folly of two newsworthy events does not just lie in the failure to prove the guilt of perpetrators of...
Tiunike Online
- Apr 23, 2018
- 5 min
Malawi’s ‘Fyofyonyo! Fyofyonyo!’ road to 2019
There were times Malawian airwaves seemed to not have enough of Patricia ‘Akweni’ Kaliati. Barely two years ago, Akweni was quite notable...
Tiunike Online
- Apr 9, 2018
- 6 min
Africa Unleashed a Monster: She Must Quickly Learn to Tame It.
Under a keen, watchful, eye of Paul Kagame, African nations made a bold move at the end of March 2018 by taking to sign the historical...
Tiunike Online
- Mar 19, 2018
- 5 min
Desmond Bikoko’s dream book for Lilongwe City
An occasional dream is necessary. It is essential to get us going, to energize…to get us to lucidly see the destination we desire. Here...
Tiunike Online
- Mar 12, 2018
- 5 min
Muluzi’s Legacy of a Laissez-Faire Malawian Democracy
Bakili Muluzi needs to hear this now. Not later. So should we all. Mr. Muluzi made a solemn promise to dress every Malawian in shoes once...
Tiunike Online
- Feb 5, 2018
- 5 min
The Curious Case of the Press Conference at Zobue
The stubborn persistence of power shortages could very well threaten a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) comeback next year. Precious...
Tiunike Online
- Dec 25, 2017
- 6 min
Three + One Ways to Look Back at Malawi’s 2017
It is already Christmas 2017, and another rough year comes to an end! Our small, but fast-populating country’s scoresheet of troubles...
Tiunike Online
- Oct 23, 2017
- 6 min
The Blue Lining in MCP’s Deserved Victory
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) just had a really good week. No, a great week! Claiming three parliamentary seats and two wards across...
Tiunike Online
- Aug 20, 2017
- 5 min
A Nation on Blindfolds
Do we wonder how solutions to Malawi’s development seem untenable, yet our leaders consistently convince us they have figured it all out?...
Tiunike Online
- Jul 10, 2017
- 5 min
Africa under Kagame
The election of Rwanda to the African Union presidency in 2018 means Paul Kagame, the country’s president, will be the epitome of this...
Tiunike Online
- Jul 3, 2017
- 6 min
Malawi's 53 Years of Loyalty to the Ancients
Published in celebration (or not) of Malawi's 53 years of independence! In 1994, Malawi had the opportunity to marshal in an aspirational...
Tiunike Online
- May 8, 2017
- 5 min
Sweeping the Dirt under MCP's Carpet
For a third time in two weeks, something gets to make the waves on the dwindling odds for the Ngwazi's Party, the Malawi Congress Party...
Tiunike Online
- May 1, 2017
- 5 min
Western Populism is Africa's Equalizer Game
Global politics took an inward-looking turn in many of the key financier countries of global development in 2016. Plans to deepen...
Tiunike Online
- Apr 24, 2017
- 5 min
A Rising Hope
Rising from the blue bench to address fellow parliamentarians on 27 May 2016, the outspoken Juliana Lunguzi asserted herself as a symbol...
Tiunike Online
- Mar 13, 2017
- 5 min
Mutharika’s Bulldozer Test
Days of almost deafening silence have passed since George Thapatula Chaponda – a.k.a. Bulldozer – was relieved of his duties, pending...
Tiunike Online
- Feb 27, 2017
- 5 min
The ABCs of Educating Parliament in Malawi
A typical review of a draft law in Malawi brings together members of the Parliamentary Committee responsible for the group of laws the...
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