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Has Malawi’s Independence only liberated us into instruments of the ballot?
Written in commemoration of Malawi's 54th Independence In the inevitable discourse on Malawi’s state of maturity as an independent...

Tiunike Online
Jul 9, 20185 min read
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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...

Tiunike Online
Jul 2, 20185 min read
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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,...

Tiunike Online
Jun 11, 20185 min read
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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...

Habiba Rezwana Osman
May 28, 20185 min read
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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...

Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
May 7, 20185 min read
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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 30, 20185 min read
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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 23, 20185 min read
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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
Apr 9, 20186 min read
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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 19, 20185 min read
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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
Mar 12, 20185 min read
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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
Feb 5, 20185 min read
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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
Dec 25, 20176 min read
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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
Oct 23, 20176 min read
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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
Aug 20, 20175 min read
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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 10, 20175 min read
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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
Jul 3, 20176 min read
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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 8, 20175 min read
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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
May 1, 20175 min read
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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
Apr 24, 20175 min read
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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
Mar 13, 20175 min read
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