Malawi’s economy is still heavily aid-reliant. In the last year alone, we received at least US$1 billion in development aid through...

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.

Literacy counted on the ability to read, write and count is hurting Malawi's education and prospects for survival in a dynamic world.

Goevernment has a role to play. In many African countries, it is failing its citizens...and voters. Could Malawi have found a solution?

The Tonse Alliance Government is set to clean up corruption in Malawi. They may have to fight the troubles within too.

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.

Malawians, including this website, have been barking about Government's poor adaptation of Covid-19 measures. We can offer solutions too.

Malawi isn't doing too badly in preventing gender-based violence in the time of Covid-19. But there are still some gaps.

The variance between the rich and poor, the privileged and not, is going to be accentuated by Covid-19.

Government of Malawi is trying to bridge the gap between affluent and poor learners. The challenges in primary education are dire.

Vice President Saulos Chilima criticized the Malawi Government on food access during a lock down. Perhaps he should think his rant through.

As things take a bad turn, President Peter Mutharika is taking control of the Covid-19 crisis. His plan needs to be more comprehensive.

As Minister of disasters, Everton Chimulirenji should wish the Covid-19 pandemic were a foreign problem. It isn't.

On 28 November 2019, a whistleblower changed Malawi's fate better than the ongoing Elections Case ever will.

Tinyade is completing her final year of Business Administration at The Polytechnic in Blantyre. She looks funny. Her limbs appear stiff,...

Highlights from a groundbreaking study Context and research strategy It is now nearly a decade since Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge...

In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2019. With approximately 38,000 new HIV infections recorded in 2018 in Malawi, the fight against AIDS...

The Government of Malawi’s (GoM) proposal to introduce a 1% tax on mobile money transactions in Malawi was ill-timed and ill-defended....

The Nation on Sunday of 15 September 2019 reported the government's position relating to the fears that many had in the heated...

How far are tertiary education institutions willing to take interdisciplinary studies? Why does combining chemistry and economics,...

“By the year 2020, Malawi, as a God-fearing nation, will be secure, democratically mature, environmentally sustainable, self-reliant with...

Agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi bears the image of a poor rural farmer. And while males are most associated with...

It’s worth saying that every hearsay and every whisper about the inner workings of our civil service had always seemed fictitious....

56 Malawians have been confirmed dead as a result of the devastating impacts of Cyclone Idai. More have died in Zimbabwe and its direct...

Barely four years since President Jacob Zuma addressed the South African Parliament on xenophobic killings, what he sketchily termed...

Even Malawian millennials will be proud to recall the EU stickers that were pasted on EU project Volkswagens in the 1990s and 2000s....

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...

Tiunike Online has reported, commented and shared in the lament on the predicament of persons with albinism (PWAs) in the last 3 years on...

Malawians who will have been of age (or just sane) during the eighties and early nineties will recall the famous Kasungu Prison field...

For a few Malawians, it is not too astonishing to hear that the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) offers a Chichewa...

The determination of taxes in Malawi, or anywhere in the world, for that matter, remains an incessantly debatable matter. The idea of...

“People-centered!” has been the new mantra of development work as the world lives in limbo regarding the feasibility of reaching desired...

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

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...

Two years ago, President Peter Mutharika was quoted daring all Malawians, in the face of a looming disastrous hunger, to turn to patching...

Times hit hard since embracing multipartyism in the early 1990s in our small country. And while capitalism under our young democracy was...

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....

5 June 2018, a Tuesday Peter Mutharika promised Malawi would sublime into European-like infrastructural marvel and standards of living,...

The modern city is the quintessential symbol of human progress, a loud indicator of a country’s willingness and readiness to spring to...

Early 2013, there was an outcry at Lunjika, Mzimba District. A Member of Parliament in one constituency had decided to apportion much of...

Ann Landers, a pseudonym used for an American columnist, once said, “opportunities usually disguise themselves as hard work, so most...

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...

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...

Microcredit, an extension of easy access financial loans mainly directed at the poor, was lauded for its potential to tackle poverty in...

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...

Published in the author's personal capacity. So let me at the outset declare that I have worked for one international agency or another...