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Just Another Day In Malawi
The headlines on the news the other night told us of the planned demonstrations for the coming months. In particular, the Teachers Union...

Jessica Mandanda
Sep 2, 20184 min read


A Peek Behind the Masintha and Njamba Excitement
It’s safe now to say the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has more contenders to fear beyond the threat the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)...

Tiunike Online
Jul 30, 20185 min read


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 8, 20185 min read


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 1, 20185 min read


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 10, 20185 min read


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


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 6, 20185 min read


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 29, 20185 min read


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 22, 20185 min read


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 8, 20186 min read


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 18, 20185 min read


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 11, 20185 min read


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


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


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 22, 20176 min read


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


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 9, 20175 min read


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 2, 20176 min read


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 7, 20175 min read


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 30, 20175 min read
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