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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


The Public Economics of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Gift was a security guard in Lilongwe in the latter years of the 2000s. Despite hard work and sharp alertness in attending to duty, a...

Tiunike Online
Dec 11, 20175 min read


The Nasty Nuances of Malawi’s Abating Inflation
The Malawi Government has gone to town on the recent reduction of the inflation rate in the country, which has reportedly hit 8.3%. It is...

Tiunike Online
Nov 20, 20175 min read


Fixing Road Accidents in Malawi: Good Intentions, Bad Solutions
Our motoring problems have sworn a stubborn persistence, growing every day and claiming more Malawian lives that ought not be lost. The...

Tiunike Online
Nov 13, 20175 min read


Goodbye Mental Arithmetic ... Welcome Calculator!
Technology is leaping forward, and will unlikely be slowing down in the foreseeable future. The impacts of these advancements are...

Tiunike Online
Nov 6, 20175 min read


Malawi's Love for Poverty, Till Death Do Us Part?
Poverty, in whatever shape, form or size it smiles on you, is no characteristic to espouse. It is degrading to one’s life, and certainly...

Tiunike Online
Oct 29, 20175 min read


What’s in A Gift?
In commemoration of the 2017 Mother's Day in Malawi. Every Mother’s Day, the modern family starts with the now mastered art of treating...

Tiunike Online
Oct 8, 20175 min read


Finessing Development Targeting for Impact
There are times when development interventions counter their very intention to get the poor out of poverty. In the name of fair play and...

Tiunike Online
Sep 24, 20175 min read


The Uncharted Territory of NGOs and Development in Malawi
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a critical role in the development of our country since independence, when we set forth...

Tiunike Online
Sep 10, 20175 min read


Being Malawian and the Right to Belong
Published in celebration of Tiunike Online's First Birthday! A regular malaria illness, remedied by a regular dose of Lonart or Fansida,...

Tiunike Online
Sep 3, 20175 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


Leveraging Technology for Education
The poor child in Malawi, if we go by current prospects, is bound to remain poor and serve his/her rich counterpart enjoying bacon and...

Tiunike Online
Aug 13, 20175 min read


The Edison Effect
In 1877, Thomas Edison and his team invented the phonograph, a sound recording machine that was the first to reproduce the sounds it...

Tiunike Online
Aug 6, 20175 min read


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...

Tiunike Online
Jul 30, 20175 min read


ICT and Development in Africa: Dealing Away Common Naivety
In January 2017, in a meeting that took place in Italy, one of the meeting leaders – let us call him Mr. Hardy – boasted how “if we’re...

Tiunike Online
Jul 16, 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


The Taxation Myth and Attracting Investment in Malawi
Tax holidays are not effective business incentives. They are not the reason firms will stay and continue investing in Malawi’s economy....

Tiunike Online
Jun 25, 20176 min read


The Veiled Prospects of Malawi’s Zero-Aid Budget
The Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA) was recently quoted reprimanding the government on its tardy redress of the compromised...

Tiunike Online
Jun 11, 20176 min read


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...

Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
Jun 4, 20175 min read
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