Habiba Rezwana Osman
- Mar 15
- 5 min
Reflecting on Women’s Leadership in the Month of Women
March is the month of women. International Women's Day is annually celebrated in almost every country of the world on 8 March. The...
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Sarah Nayeja
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
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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Jessica Mandanda
- Oct 19, 2020
- 5 min
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.
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Tiunike Online
- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
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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Jessica Mandanda
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5 min
Malawi’s Public Space: A Place for Women?
Public spaces in Malawi remain a substantial barrier for women and gender equality. For the sake of progress, we need to change this.
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Habiba Rezwana Osman
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
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.
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Jessica Mandanda
- Apr 30, 2020
- 5 min
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
- Feb 24, 2020
- 5 min
Sex Work in Malawi: An Eternal Problem Can’t be Resolved by Punishment
Sex work and prostitution may use the same tools, but they are different and need different approaches to resolve.
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Tiunike Online
- Jan 6, 2020
- 8 min
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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Alan Msosa
- Dec 16, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Jessica Mandanda
- Nov 18, 2019
- 4 min
Sexuality in Malawi: If Only We had a Feminist Government
“The discrimination and criminalization of same sex relations, regardless of whatever colonized cultural and religious reasons we may...
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Tiunike Online
- Jan 28, 2019
- 5 min
Gender Equality – Nuance to Straitjacket Philosophy
It's not uncommon to hear development practitioners preaching gender equality in the context of the missed development opportunities that...
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Habiba Rezwana Osman
- Jan 14, 2019
- 6 min
#Metoo, #TimesUp, #HearMeToo and other Campaigns: Are We Getting Anywhere?
This article has been written in the author's personal capacity. I am joining this conversation not just as an African woman but also as...
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Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
- Nov 26, 2018
- 5 min
A Bold Manifestation of Hope: The Women’s Assembly
The room was abuzz and women of all ages, from all walks of Malawian life, flooded in through the doors. A momentous occasion was here at...
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Jessica Mandanda
- Oct 15, 2018
- 5 min
The Indirect Protagonists of Patriarchy
“Thus to challenge patriarchy, to dispute the idea that it is men who should be dominant figures in the family and society, is to be seen...
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Tiunike Online
- Sep 17, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Tiunike Online
- Jun 18, 2018
- 5 min
Keeping Up Appearances - The Tender Side of the Human Male
There is a less sensual side of the gender inequality conversation much of the expertise employed to work on the social problem...
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Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
- May 7, 2018
- 5 min
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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Habiba Rezwana Osman
- Jan 29, 2018
- 5 min
Malawi in 2017: A Reflection on Gender-based & Other Forms of Violence
Published in the author’s personal capacity. I will consider 2017 as an interesting year for Malawi in terms of addressing gender based...
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Tiunike Online
- Jul 31, 2017
- 5 min
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...
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Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
- Jun 5, 2017
- 5 min
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...
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Habiba Rezwana Osman
- Apr 17, 2017
- 6 min
Anti-Trafficking Response in Malawi
Published in the author's personal capacity. Pictures depicting a room overcrowded with young Malawian girls in Kuwait showed the...
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Sarah Nayeja
- Mar 20, 2017
- 5 min
Freedom Uncensored: An Experience with Domestic Workers in Malawi
Both colonialism and the semblance of development that followed it taught us, Malawians, the tradition of hiring house help, or who...
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Tiunike Online
- Mar 6, 2017
- 5 min
How Power and Gender are Rewriting Culture in Malawi
Published in celebration of the 2017 International Women's Day In 2016, Malawi's cultures were brought under international scrutiny for...
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Tiunike Online
- Dec 17, 2016
- 6 min
Reflecting 2016, A Remarkable Year of Women.
So much happened in 2016. History was made, and history was changed. We glued our eyes to the screens, to the papers, and our ears to...
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Tiunike Online
- Dec 13, 2016
- 6 min
Abortion in the Age of Religionism
The notion that a (young) woman will lasciviously churn out unborn babies through her life, because a law permits it, is absurd. Women,...
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Tiunike Online
- Nov 29, 2016
- 6 min
The State vs Culture: The (De)Merits of Mr. Aniva’s Sentence
The two-year sentence of 22 November 2016 that convicted 45-year-old Eric Aniva of Nsanje District, met with both jubilation and...
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Leona Barusya and Venge Nyirongo
- Nov 17, 2016
- 6 min
Female Leadership in Africa – Nibbling Away at the Glass Ceiling
Published in the authors' personal capacity. A no woman vote recently contributed to crashing Mrs. Clinton’s aspirations to smash the...
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Venge Nyirongo
- Sep 21, 2016
- 5 min
Unpaid Care Work in Development: Women Investing in Silence
Written in the author's personal capacity. A well-grounded argument for gender equality and sustainable development resides in the...
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Bertha Lilian Munthali
- Sep 12, 2016
- 7 min
Short-circuiting Luck, Culture and Tradition on My Journey to Womanhood
I was only weeks away from my 16th birthday when I became of age, the woman I had fancied ever since I was a seven-year-old. It was the...
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Tiunike Online
- Aug 19, 2016
- 4 min
Culture and Tradition in Malawi: Other Lessons from Mr. Aniva’s Arrest
On 21 July 2016, the world was introduced to Mr. Eric Aniva. This was through a 2-minute BBC documentary interview titled “The man hired...
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