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...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
Mar 15, 20215 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.
Sarah Nayeja
Nov 16, 20204 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
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.
Tiunike Online
Sep 21, 20204 min read
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.
Jessica Mandanda
Aug 24, 20205 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
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.
Tiunike Online
Feb 24, 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
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...
Jessica Mandanda
Nov 18, 20194 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Jan 28, 20195 min read
#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...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
Jan 14, 20196 min read
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...
Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
Nov 26, 20185 min read
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...
Jessica Mandanda
Oct 15, 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
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...
Tiunike Online
Jun 18, 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...
Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
May 7, 20185 min read
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...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
Jan 29, 20185 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Jul 31, 20175 min read
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...
Ulemu Hannah Kanyongolo
Jun 5, 20175 min read
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...
Habiba Rezwana Osman
Apr 17, 20176 min read
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...
Sarah Nayeja
Mar 20, 20175 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Mar 6, 20175 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Dec 17, 20166 min read
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,...
Tiunike Online
Dec 13, 20166 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Nov 29, 20166 min read
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...
Leona Barusya and Venge Nyirongo
Nov 17, 20166 min read
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...
Venge Nyirongo
Sep 21, 20165 min read
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...
Bertha Lilian Munthali
Sep 12, 20167 min read
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...
Tiunike Online
Aug 19, 20164 min read