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A Bit of Wisdom - 20/Dec/2009 10:06 - 5242 days ago
“What was the most meaningful change that you contributed to during your placement?” asks my programme manager, Alice. It is...
Bad Moon Rising - 26/Nov/2009 11:43 - 5266 days ago
When the newspapers finally reported the national fuel shortage, they echoed the Government’s claim that the ports in Mozambiq...
Escape from Blantyre - 19/Nov/2009 13:20 - 5273 days ago
Slowly, for I have eaten a little too much, I make my way back to the lodge and the warm bed that waits for me. I pass the Petro...
There Are Worse Places to be Stranded - 13/Nov/2009 08:43 - 5279 days ago
I have only been to Blantyre on two previous occasions, yet there is something very different about the city this evening. The g...
Workshop Syndrome - 03/Nov/2009 06:50 - 5289 days ago
This article first appeared in The Nation newspaper on the 8th May, 2009. It was written by Muza Gondwe, a lecturer at the colle...
Bad for Your Health but Good for Malawi - 22/Oct/2009 13:01 - 5301 days ago
Take the main road north from Lilongwe and you will pass the indomitable township of Kanengo. Traditional, unrefined, industrial...
A Cinderella Story - 14/Oct/2009 13:14 - 5309 days ago
Once-upon-a-time, in a land far, far away, there lived two poor young travellers known as Misja and Stuartee, and their evil nig...
A New Pandemic Engulfs Africa - 02/Oct/2009 05:50 - 5321 days ago
The World Health Organisation yesterday issued a warning to foreign nationals travelling to Malawi, advising them to avoid conta...
Victoria Falls: Part Four– The Journey to Zimbabwe - 25/Sep/2009 12:16 - 5328 days ago
For many hundreds of miles, from the point where the Chobe joins in the west, until the river meets the great Lake Cahora Bassa ...
Victoria Falls: Part Three– Mosi-oa-Tunya - 22/Sep/2009 11:49 - 5331 days ago
How many wonders of the world can you name?My friends and I—a well-travelled and intelligent group let it be said, though admi...
Victoria Falls: Part One - The Journey to Livingstone - 15/Sep/2009 09:24 - 5338 days ago
Before I can catch a taxi that will transport me through the 30-odd kilometres of nothing between the border and the town ofChip...
Victoria Falls: Part One - The Journey to Zambia - 10/Sep/2009 13:20 - 5343 days ago
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No Crisis Here! - 20/Apr/2009 08:38 - 5486 days ago
The BBC World Service would later describe it as an‘energy crisis’.The first time I went to bed hungry after a dinner consis...
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Burger - 30/Mar/2009 12:23 - 5507 days ago
The facts are these:On Monday 9thMarch, 2009, at approximately 1800 hours Southern African Time, I began to prepare dinner in th...
Incident Report: House 1743, Area 18B, Lilongwe - 19/Mar/2009 08:07 - 5518 days ago
On Wednesday 21st January, 2009—a day which saw an unusual amount of rainfall in Lilongwe—I returned home from work early in...
The Precious Few - 27/Feb/2009 12:50 - 5538 days ago
His name is Teonas.My employers instruct me to reimburse the attendees of my meetings and trainings for the transport expenses t...
Maternal Instincts - 20/Feb/2009 11:25 - 5545 days ago
They grow up so fast, don’t they? They used to spend most of their time sleeping like little angels, but before you know it, y...
This is African Football - 20/Jan/2009 14:49 - 5576 days ago
Police officers patrol the touchline with automatic weapons. Employees of the sponsor drive around the pitch waving from their c...
The Next Splendid Premonition - 13/Jan/2009 11:35 - 5583 days ago
The last couple of weeks have been quiet. Though few people celebrated Christmas and New Years, many in the city welcomed the op...
Owed to PCAR - 30/Dec/2008 06:55 - 5597 days ago
After the debacle of my first three days of Malawian schooling, my employers asked me to return to the little mountain town ofDe...
The Alternative Christmas Message - 24/Dec/2008 09:33 - 5603 days ago
There are no hordes of Christmas shoppers on Lilongwe’s high street, no decorations in the shops and offices, no carol singers...
Back to School... Day Three - 22/Dec/2008 07:05 - 5605 days ago
Today is Friday. The weekend begins tomorrow. This thought will help me get through my final day of school. At least, I hope it ...
Back to School... Day Two - 10/Dec/2008 12:15 - 5617 days ago
I manage to haul myself out of bed a little earlier this morning. It’s not easy, especially as I don’t care as much if I’m...
Back to School... Day One - 24/Nov/2008 10:13 - 5633 days ago
The middle of November sees the end of school forMalawi’s children and the beginning of a period of professional development f...
Sweet Little Sixteen - 10/Nov/2008 11:15 - 5647 days ago
“When I was a schoolgirl,” my colleague Doreen tells me, “there were only sixteen children in our class.” Her eyes take ...
What's in a Name? - 03/Nov/2008 15:14 - 5654 days ago
To the people who need help, I am‘brother’; to the people who have goods to sell, I am ‘friend’; to the strangers who pa...
It's All Over Now, Baby Bula - 22/Oct/2008 10:58 - 5666 days ago
No longer will I be laughed at for my methodical, lumbering slowness or my inability to walk on the ceiling. No longer will I be...
What is Today? - 16/Oct/2008 13:24 - 5672 days ago
Today is Wednesday but it should have been Monday. The bank holiday that is today—Wednesday—was, last week, moved from the d...
Show Me the Way to Go Home - 14/Oct/2008 10:03 - 5674 days ago
“Do you guys need a taxi?” asked the man hopefully as he stumbled toward us, car keys jangling in one hand, cup of beer slos...
The Colour of Frustration - 06/Oct/2008 12:08 - 5682 days ago
For a country that’s supposed to be one of the world’s poorest, there are always a surprising number of people waiting to de...
These Lonely Lilongwean Evenings - 03/Oct/2008 09:00 - 5685 days ago
Evening is a lonely time in Lilongwe. Dark comes soon after 6.00 p.m. and does so all year round, summer and winter both. And on...
Look After the Tambala and the Kwacha Will Look After Themselves - 29/Sep/2008 06:58 - 5689 days ago
Now I don’t know whether it’s because of the current financial crisis affecting world money markets, or because I’m workin...
Welcome to Lilongwe - 22/Sep/2008 07:19 - 5696 days ago
Elegant, charming, full of beauty… during my first two weeks in Lilongwe I have found the city to be none of these. And I’m ...
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