When the American poet, Robert Frost, was writing his famous poem, “The Road Not Taken”, little did he know that one Joseph Nkasa in Malawi will also go for the shunned road. When the character… ...
Articles By Wonderful Mkhutche
Chuma Soko, one of the gifted producers to ever have graced Malawi music died at a young age of twenty five in December, 2003. But in the years he had been in the music industry,… ...
A friend, Sam Gikonyo, had read my articles on music and democracy in 1994 and 1999 suggested that I write on something of recent. By recent, he was meant five years ago. In my response,… ...
1993, ‘Mabala’. Healing the wounds: After growing under the wings of his elder brother, Paul, Lucius Banda decided to make a maiden attempt on the music scene through the release of his album, ‘Son of… ...
On Monday, January 09, 2017, a nostalgic Lucius Banda, through a Facebook post on his account, reminded his fans of the year 1997. He was twenty seven years old then, released his fourth album, ‘Take… ...
Singer Ritaa has recently dropped two singles and instantly proved why she should be considered as one of the best in Malawi. Besides her music, she is making inroads into the hearts of her fans… ...
The share of greatness on the Malawi urban music landscape seems to range in categories like the greatest showman, the greatest comic and the greatest beat-maker among others. Forget his fake social media competition, but… ...
The last time she notably released a song was, ‘Chapatali’, six months ago. She featured Dan Lu in it, and to the surprise of many, it was Dan Lu who did the most part of… ...
His death came as a shock. When such young lives, full of energy and inspiration go away from us in such a sudden manner, it feels like running to whoever owns our existence and beg… ...
Grace Chinga died in March 2016, hours after announcing her fourth studio album titled ‘Esther’. It was a highly anticipated project bearing in mind that it had been six years since she came up with… ...
Evison Matafale died in mysterious circumstances in November 2001 when he was under the Police custody. The two reggae albums he had released before his death, Kuimba One and Two, in 1999 and 2001, respectively,… ...
What Joseph Nkasa was waiting for was a moment of his own. As a mere mortal he could not have known when that would be. But his trying kept the moment to be a possibility.… ...
Joseph Nkasa, although that side of his life is rarely recognized, will go down in the history of Malawi as one of the remarkable ‘from rags to riches’ stories. Born in a poor family in… ...
Today is July 6. Fifty two years ago, it was July 6, 1964, when Malawi was declared a republic. Our journey to this day concretely began that day. Often, there is a hopeless attitude people… ...
Multiparty democracy came to Malawi with the capitalist economy. It shifted the means of production from the state to the free market. Its immediate effect was the loss of jobs for millions of people and… ...