

Sarah Nayeja
Nov 16, 20204 min read
The Rule of Law Must Reign, Mr. President
The new president's promises must be upheld if he will consolidate his support over the coming years. Sticking to the law is one of them.
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Tiunike Online
Sep 21, 20204 min read
Men Should Not Call the Shots in Debating Malawi’s Abortion Bill
Women in Malawi need to be in charge of the debate on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill. Men should be made to understand it.
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Tiunike Online
Sep 7, 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?
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Tiunike Online
Jul 20, 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.
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Tiunike Online
May 11, 20205 min read
Mtchona: A Tale of One Malawian Constitutional Lawyer
Malawi put closure to a messy Presidential election of 2019. Behind such constitutional breaches is one man.
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Jessica Mandanda
Apr 30, 20205 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.
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Tiunike Online
Apr 20, 20204 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.
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Sarah Nayeja
Apr 13, 20205 min read
Government at Fault on Church Gatherings
The church in Malawi is caught between an ideal situation and doing the right thing. It just might hurt its flock.
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Tiunike Online
Apr 6, 20205 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.
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Tiunike Online
Mar 2, 20204 min read
Alliance One: 2019 Should Not Be the Sole Benchmark for the 2020 Malawi Presidential Elections
The DPP-UDF alliance is moving full-steam ahead. The MCP and UTM still can't get over who's best to lead theirs.
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Tiunike Online
Feb 17, 20204 min read
To Be An Electoral Commissioner in Malawi: The Truth Shall Not Set You Free!
All testimonies from MEC Commissioners show that self interest reigns supreme over country.
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Tiunike Online
Feb 10, 20205 min read
How Malawi is Making an Unpopular President Less Appealing
President Mutharika has appealed the ConCourt ruling on 2019's elections case. He needs to heed to an unlikely ally.
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Tiunike Online
Feb 3, 20205 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.
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Sarah Nayeja
Jan 27, 20204 min read
Aluta Continua! Malawi’s Own ‘Festival of the Oppressed’
The May 2019 Tripartite Elections came. With high hopes, people turned up in high numbers to vote. “Winners” were announced. As is always...
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Tiunike Online
Jan 6, 20208 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,...
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Tiunike Online
Dec 23, 20196 min read
Malawi’s Biggest Event of 2019: The Fiend Haunting Kamuzu Palace
2019 was meant to be the year of Malawi’s tripartite elections. For the most part, voter expectations had previously oscillated between...
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Tiunike Online
Dec 3, 20195 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...
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Tiunike Online
Sep 30, 20195 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...
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Tiunike Online
Aug 6, 20195 min read
The Marxist Lining in Malawi’s Post-Election Demonstrations
Scenes of Malawi’s young women and (mainly) men looting places of business, performed in the name of a political grievance around the...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 15, 20195 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...
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Tiunike Online
Jun 10, 20195 min read
Is the Presidency a Win? On This and Political Trust in Malawi
Patrick Otieno Lumumba, a Kenyan lawyer more famous for his oratory on political economy in Africa than the technicalities of law, has...
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Tiunike Online
Jun 3, 20196 min read
The Ghost of John Tembo’s ‘Leader of Opposition’ Office
On 21 May 2019, two-thirds of Malawi rejected the comeback of Arthur Peter Mutharika to the presidency. However, the absurdity of a split...
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Jessica Mandanda
May 27, 20194 min read
The Pedagogy of the Malawian Voter
Oppression—overwhelming control—is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life. While life is characterized by growth in a...
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Tiunike Online
May 20, 20196 min read
Malawi’s Fate Tomorrow, In Numbers
A comment to a Nyasatimes news article that appeared last Friday, 17 May 2019, says, “Atupele likely to lead the pack with about 46% of...
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Jessica Mandanda
Feb 25, 20195 min read
The Value of Our Vote: Much at Stake as We Await the Vote in Malawi
T’is the Election year, the year Malawians decide the fate of their country after a questionable and quite trying five years. Highlights...
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Sarah Nayeja
Feb 18, 20195 min read
Sorry, But Not Sorry
Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima must be applauded for taking responsibility and apologising for the ruffing up of Malawi Electoral Commission...
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Tiunike Online
Feb 11, 20194 min read
My Name is Joyce Banda. Call Me Unreliable, Sometimes.
The drama, anxieties and entertainment from the presentation of nomination papers and appointments of running mates are now fizzling out....
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Tiunike Online
Jan 7, 20195 min read
A Tip for 2019: Beware the Illusion of Big Numbers!
Happy New Year to all! The long-awaited 2019 is upon us. Nothing known today will be worth reckoning more than an election whose accurate...
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Tiunike Online
Dec 24, 20185 min read
The Greatest Error of 2018: How the DPP Created Itself A Nemesis
8 December is now past. The United Transformation Movement (UTM) Party has had its elective convention and selected its torchbearer. An...
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Tiunike Online
Nov 12, 20184 min read
Rewarding Vanity: Malawi’s Political Loudmouths are Not Going Anywhere
It’s 2018, and one would think our politics ought to have grown up a little. This website has twice written about how our politics...
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Habiba Rezwana Osman
Sep 10, 20185 min read
Children and Politics - Are Rallies Harmful to our Children who Patronize Them?
This article represents the views of the author and not of any other institution or person. A little more than week ago, I was on a ZBS...
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Jessica Mandanda
Sep 3, 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...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 30, 20185 min read
A Peek Behind the Masintha and Njamba Excitement
It’s safe now to say the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has more contenders to fear beyond the threat the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 9, 20185 min read
Has Malawi’s Independence only liberated us into instruments of the ballot?
Written in commemoration of Malawi's 54th Independence In the inevitable discourse on Malawi’s state of maturity as an independent...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 2, 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...
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Tiunike Online
Jun 11, 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,...
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Habiba Rezwana Osman
May 28, 20185 min read
2019 Elections Must Be Different for Malawi
Malawians remain on the fence insofar as politics is concerned. The craving to challenge the status quo is almost inexistent, and the...
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Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
May 7, 20185 min read
Women’s Rights and Politics: Getting Young Women Involved
Youth in politics have been marginalized for as long as post-independence self-rule has existed in Malawi. The look of our political...
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Tiunike Online
Apr 30, 20185 min read
A Game of Weakening Institutions and Politics in Malawi
In the just past week, the folly of two newsworthy events does not just lie in the failure to prove the guilt of perpetrators of...
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Tiunike Online
Apr 23, 20185 min read
Malawi’s ‘Fyofyonyo! Fyofyonyo!’ road to 2019
There were times Malawian airwaves seemed to not have enough of Patricia ‘Akweni’ Kaliati. Barely two years ago, Akweni was quite notable...
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Tiunike Online
Apr 9, 20186 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...
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Tiunike Online
Mar 19, 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...
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Tiunike Online
Mar 12, 20185 min read
Muluzi’s Legacy of a Laissez-Faire Malawian Democracy
Bakili Muluzi needs to hear this now. Not later. So should we all. Mr. Muluzi made a solemn promise to dress every Malawian in shoes once...
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Tiunike Online
Feb 5, 20185 min read
The Curious Case of the Press Conference at Zobue
The stubborn persistence of power shortages could very well threaten a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) comeback next year. Precious...
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Tiunike Online
Dec 25, 20176 min read
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...
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Tiunike Online
Oct 23, 20176 min read
The Blue Lining in MCP’s Deserved Victory
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) just had a really good week. No, a great week! Claiming three parliamentary seats and two wards across...
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Tiunike Online
Aug 20, 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?...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 10, 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...
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Tiunike Online
Jul 3, 20176 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...
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Tiunike Online
May 8, 20175 min read
Sweeping the Dirt under MCP's Carpet
For a third time in two weeks, something gets to make the waves on the dwindling odds for the Ngwazi's Party, the Malawi Congress Party...
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