Malawi’s rivers make the system of veins pumping life into the country’s largest water reservoir, Lake Malawi. As it makes its 402-kilometer journey down the rift valley towards Mozambique, it morphs into the great Shire River, which, with a life of its own, supports hundreds of thousands of lives in Malawi’s southern region. Its occasional flooding of the southern valley, burgeoning into Lake Malombe at some point, permits the thrift of cash crops like sugarcane, a major sup

According to Professor Peter Mutharika, a.k.a. President of Malawi, quality of life in 2018 Malawi is measured by the number of Malawians sitting behind a steering wheel. The type of cars, their physical health, nor the means by which many have been acquired feature as important indicators. It seems not to matter that the persons behind the wheel will have their children spend another day skipping science lab because he has not lived up to providing electricity to the schools

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 rare occurrence among workers in the industry he served, revealing his HIV status to his employers was not the quickest thing he could do. But soon a regular malaria or bout of flu could no longer be handled with the calm demeanor that a few pills of Fansida or the traditional water and rest remedy could previously resolve. So much was at stake

Our motoring problems have sworn a stubborn persistence, growing every day and claiming more Malawian lives that ought not be lost. The tragic death of Mr. Gausi on Kamuzu Procession Road, on a police motorbike that led Bakili Muluzi’s presidential convoy, was avoidable if Mr. Muluzi himself paid attention to the potholes emerging on our roads. The nine (9) police officers we buried in December 2009, again on presidential motorcade duty, could probably have been saved. All th

There are times when development interventions counter their very intention to get the poor out of poverty. In the name of fair play and inclusivity, the one-size-fits-all approach to development projects is causing more harm for the poor, and will likely keep them locked up in the vice’s cycle forever. Almost every development project and policy is guilty of this gross miscalculation, and targeting techniques in the conduct of pre-assessments for projects needs a radical ove

On Wednesday, 22 March 2017, the President of Malawi, Peter Mutharika, made the assertion in Mangochi District that will likely let the country see an earth drill make a hole into Lake Malawi, suck some crude oil out of the earth buried under it onto its shores, and start making some easy money. The trade benefits from the fossil fuel make both critics and fans jubilate with premature excitement at the prospect of earning what has been normally elusive cash, in foreign curren