The Unraveling Geopolitical Landscape May be Good for Developing Countries like Malawi
Photo by Freedom House Shifting Global Aid Dynamics and the SDGs Global foreign aid patterns have undergone notable changes. In this...
Tiunike Online
Mar 1018 min read
The Hidden Consequences of Medical Misdiagnoses in Malawi: Physical Damage to Psychological Turmoil
Pic by UNICEF In July of 2021, three distant relatives in Lilongwe, who did not share a household nor occupations, found themselves all...
Tiunike Online
Aug 14, 20235 min read
Total Reform of Government: Realizing Demand-driven, Structured Growth in Malawi
Pic by World Nuclear News
Joshua Nthakomwa
Nov 22, 20229 min read
Malawi’s Age of Covid-19: No Goodbyes to Public Debt in Sight
Malawi’s economy is still heavily aid-reliant. In the last year alone, we received at least US$1 billion in development aid through...
Tiunike Online
Jan 4, 20215 min read
Malawi’s Intergenerational Debt Burden: Youth Voices Needed!
Malawi's elders, the bulk of our stock of decision-makers, continue to borrow for government. It is Malawi's youth who will pay for it.
Jessica Mandanda
Oct 19, 20205 min read
Sprucing up Average Joe and Plain Jane: Malawi Cannot Keep Up its Song on Literacy
Literacy counted on the ability to read, write and count is hurting Malawi's education and prospects for survival in a dynamic world.
Tiunike Online
Oct 12, 20204 min read
In Government We (Hope to) Trust: Voting and Governance in Malawi and Africa
Goevernment has a role to play. In many African countries, it is failing its citizens...and voters. Could Malawi have found a solution?
Tiunike Online
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Malawi Beyond DPP: The Price Tonse Alliance Government May Need to Pay
The Tonse Alliance Government is set to clean up corruption in Malawi. They may have to fight the troubles within too.
Tiunike Online
Jul 20, 20204 min read
Is A New Vision for Malawi Needed to Close the Poverty Gap?
The Vision 2020 remains relevant to today's development as it did 21.5 years ago. Something needs to be done to make it work for the future.
Tiunike Online
Jun 1, 20205 min read
Covid-19: A Chance for Malawi’s Traditional Governance to Shine
Malawians, including this website, have been barking about Government's poor adaptation of Covid-19 measures. We can offer solutions too.
Tiunike Online
May 25, 20206 min read
Malawi and the ‘Shadow Pandemic’: How to Win the Battle on GBV under Covid-19
Malawi isn't doing too badly in preventing gender-based violence in the time of Covid-19. But there are still some gaps.
Habiba Rezwana Osman
May 18, 20204 min read
Covid-19 Lock Down in Malawi: Not a Great Time to Be Poor
The variance between the rich and poor, the privileged and not, is going to be accentuated by Covid-19.
Jessica Mandanda
Apr 30, 20205 min read
A Divided Society: Covid-19 Response and Inequality in Primary Education in Malawi
Government of Malawi is trying to bridge the gap between affluent and poor learners. The challenges in primary education are dire.
Yandura Chipeta
Apr 27, 20205 min read
Covid-19, Food and Politics: Chilima Could Have Emerged as A True Leader
Vice President Saulos Chilima criticized the Malawi Government on food access during a lock down. Perhaps he should think his rant through.
Tiunike Online
Apr 20, 20204 min read
A Few More Things Malawians Need to Hear, Mr. President
As things take a bad turn, President Peter Mutharika is taking control of the Covid-19 crisis. His plan needs to be more comprehensive.
Tiunike Online
Apr 6, 20205 min read
A Monster Knocks at the Door: Malawi Sleeps in the Wake of Covid-19
As Minister of disasters, Everton Chimulirenji should wish the Covid-19 pandemic were a foreign problem. It isn't.
Tiunike Online
Mar 30, 20204 min read
The Whistleblower’s Tale – A Ray of Hope for Malawi’s Institutions
On 28 November 2019, a whistleblower changed Malawi's fate better than the ongoing Elections Case ever will.
Tiunike Online
Feb 3, 20205 min read
Living on the Margins in Malawi’s Year of the Vision. It's 2020!
Tinyade is completing her final year of Business Administration at The Polytechnic in Blantyre. She looks funny. Her limbs appear stiff,...
Tiunike Online
Jan 6, 20208 min read
Towards a progressive debate on LGBTQI+ Rights in Malawi
Highlights from a groundbreaking study Context and research strategy It is now nearly a decade since Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge...
Alan Msosa
Dec 16, 20194 min read
All Hands on Deck! A Comprehensive Financing Model for HIV/AIDS in Malawi
In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2019. With approximately 38,000 new HIV infections recorded in 2018 in Malawi, the fight against AIDS...
Tiunike Online
Dec 3, 20195 min read
Malawi’s Mobile Money Tax: A Good Idea Gets Lost in the Noise
The Government of Malawi’s (GoM) proposal to introduce a 1% tax on mobile money transactions in Malawi was ill-timed and ill-defended....
Tiunike Online
Oct 8, 20194 min read
Malawi at the Intersection of Morality, Politics and the Economy
The Nation on Sunday of 15 September 2019 reported the government's position relating to the fears that many had in the heated...
Tiunike Online
Sep 30, 20195 min read
The Dead Specialist: Implications of Dealing Away Specialization for Development in Malawi and Elsew
How far are tertiary education institutions willing to take interdisciplinary studies? Why does combining chemistry and economics,...
Tiunike Online
Jul 29, 20194 min read
An Unhappy Independence: How Did Malawi Miss Her Vision?
“By the year 2020, Malawi, as a God-fearing nation, will be secure, democratically mature, environmentally sustainable, self-reliant with...
Tiunike Online
Jul 15, 20195 min read
Restructuring Agriculture in Malawi: Let the Hoe Rest in Pieces
Agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi bears the image of a poor rural farmer. And while males are most associated with...
Tiunike Online
Jul 1, 20195 min read
Fait Accompli: To Be A Government Intern in Malawi
It’s worth saying that every hearsay and every whisper about the inner workings of our civil service had always seemed fictitious....
Jessica Mandanda
Apr 29, 20195 min read
Floods of Dependence: Letting the Grief Repeat
56 Malawians have been confirmed dead as a result of the devastating impacts of Cyclone Idai. More have died in Zimbabwe and its direct...
Tiunike Online
Apr 15, 20194 min read
Kwerekwere, Go Away! The Choty Goty’s Mine!
Barely four years since President Jacob Zuma addressed the South African Parliament on xenophobic killings, what he sketchily termed...
Tiunike Online
Apr 8, 20195 min read
Why Investing in A Toyota Corolla “Today” Makes Sense for Malawi’s Development
Even Malawian millennials will be proud to recall the EU stickers that were pasted on EU project Volkswagens in the 1990s and 2000s....
Tiunike Online
Mar 25, 20195 min read
The Second-Hand Wardrobe in Africa – A Treasure or A Shame?
The sighting of compatriots clad in fancy GAP or H&M brands on the streets of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu, Zomba or any other town for that...
Novilhelha Moleni
Mar 4, 20195 min read
Humanity on Sale: Will 2019 Be the Same for Persons with Albinism in Malawi?
Tiunike Online has reported, commented and shared in the lament on the predicament of persons with albinism (PWAs) in the last 3 years on...
Tiunike Online
Feb 4, 20195 min read
Prison Reform in Malawi: Let's Valorize Inmates' Talents
Malawians who will have been of age (or just sane) during the eighties and early nineties will recall the famous Kasungu Prison field...
Tiunike Online
Jan 21, 20195 min read
To Be in the World, Malawi Must Speak the Languages of the World
For a few Malawians, it is not too astonishing to hear that the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) offers a Chichewa...
Tiunike Online
Nov 5, 20185 min read
MRA Reforms: Will the Portrait of a Hardliner help in a Lighter Tax System?
The determination of taxes in Malawi, or anywhere in the world, for that matter, remains an incessantly debatable matter. The idea of...
Tiunike Online
Oct 1, 20185 min read
Chasing the Good in a Bad Situation
“People-centered!” has been the new mantra of development work as the world lives in limbo regarding the feasibility of reaching desired...
Tiunike Online
Sep 17, 20184 min read
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 3, 20184 min read
Why We Should Raise Electricity Tariffs in Malawi…Because It Is Cheaper!
The opinions and views expressed in this article are the author's and do not represent those of any institution. Of late I have been...
Tiunike Online
Aug 27, 201812 min read
Relating with Mutharika’s Wisdom on Zitete
Two years ago, President Peter Mutharika was quoted daring all Malawians, in the face of a looming disastrous hunger, to turn to patching...
Bertha Lilian Munthali
Aug 6, 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 2, 20185 min read
Not Hired! Changing the Business Mindset for Youth Employment in Malawi
The Malawi labour force is clogged with jobseekers that will take a long time to be matched by vacancies, if they will be matched at all....
Tiunike Online
Jun 25, 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 11, 20185 min read
The Future City Dweller – The Disparities That Remain
The modern city is the quintessential symbol of human progress, a loud indicator of a country’s willingness and readiness to spring to...
Tiunike Online
Jun 4, 20185 min read
Too Much Governance for Too Little Local Development
Early 2013, there was an outcry at Lunjika, Mzimba District. A Member of Parliament in one constituency had decided to apportion much of...
Tiunike Online
May 21, 20186 min read
How Malawi can Break Through a $3 Billion Market
Ann Landers, a pseudonym used for an American columnist, once said, “opportunities usually disguise themselves as hard work, so most...
Tiunike Online
May 14, 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 9, 20186 min read
The Moon
I approached the traffic lights slowly. I was driving home from work. The lights were on red. I always try to beat the time when...
Sarah Nayeja
Apr 2, 20186 min read
Microfinancing in Malawi – On the Margins of Inclusiveness
Microcredit, an extension of easy access financial loans mainly directed at the poor, was lauded for its potential to tackle poverty in...
Tiunike Online
Mar 26, 20185 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 19, 20185 min read
Is Foreign AID the Solution to Malawi’s Malaise or the Problem?
Published in the author's personal capacity. So let me at the outset declare that I have worked for one international agency or another...
Tom Mtenje
Mar 5, 20185 min read
Patriots on the Move - Diaspora Malawians in Development
The government of Malawi is trying to acculturate resources generated by Malawians living abroad in its menu for development. Starting at...
Tiunike Online
Feb 26, 20185 min read