Malawi in 2017: A Reflection on Gender-based & Other Forms of Violence
Published in the author’s personal capacity. I will consider 2017 as an interesting year for Malawi in terms of addressing gender based...
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Tiunike Online
- Jul 31, 2017
- 5 min
All I Want is Aspirin, My Bed and a Hot Water Bottle!
In March 2017, Tiunike Online initiated a social media discussion on the merits of instituting (a) menstrual holiday(s) for women. Our...
Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
- Jun 5, 2017
- 5 min
Gender and the Law in Practice for Development
Malawi recently took a historic step in the fight against child marriage in amending Section 22 of the Constitution, calming the...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
- Apr 17, 2017
- 6 min
Anti-Trafficking Response in Malawi
Published in the author's personal capacity. Pictures depicting a room overcrowded with young Malawian girls in Kuwait showed the...
Sarah Nayeja
- Mar 20, 2017
- 5 min
Freedom Uncensored: An Experience with Domestic Workers in Malawi
Both colonialism and the semblance of development that followed it taught us, Malawians, the tradition of hiring house help, or who...
Tiunike Online
- Mar 6, 2017
- 5 min
How Power and Gender are Rewriting Culture in Malawi
Published in celebration of the 2017 International Women's Day In 2016, Malawi's cultures were brought under international scrutiny for...
Tiunike Online
- Dec 17, 2016
- 6 min
Reflecting 2016, A Remarkable Year of Women.
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...
Tiunike Online
- Dec 13, 2016
- 6 min
Abortion in the Age of Religionism
The notion that a (young) woman will lasciviously churn out unborn babies through her life, because a law permits it, is absurd. Women,...
Tiunike Online
- Nov 29, 2016
- 6 min
The State vs Culture: The (De)Merits of Mr. Aniva’s Sentence
The two-year sentence of 22 November 2016 that convicted 45-year-old Eric Aniva of Nsanje District, met with both jubilation and...
Leona Barusya and Venge Nyirongo
- Nov 17, 2016
- 6 min
Female Leadership in Africa – Nibbling Away at the Glass Ceiling
Published in the authors' personal capacity. A no woman vote recently contributed to crashing Mrs. Clinton’s aspirations to smash the...
Venge Nyirongo
- Sep 21, 2016
- 5 min
Unpaid Care Work in Development: Women Investing in Silence
Written in the author's personal capacity. A well-grounded argument for gender equality and sustainable development resides in the...
Bertha Lilian Munthali
- Sep 12, 2016
- 7 min
Short-circuiting Luck, Culture and Tradition on My Journey to Womanhood
I was only weeks away from my 16th birthday when I became of age, the woman I had fancied ever since I was a seven-year-old. It was the...
Tiunike Online
- Aug 19, 2016
- 4 min
Culture and Tradition in Malawi: Other Lessons from Mr. Aniva’s Arrest
On 21 July 2016, the world was introduced to Mr. Eric Aniva. This was through a 2-minute BBC documentary interview titled “The man hired...
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