You would think that on who is greater, and consequently should emulate from the other, between Robert Chiwamba and Lucius Banda is a settled question. It doesn’t look like it, however.
One of the icons of Malawi music, Lucius Banda, has run out of steam as is evident in his latest single, Takana Abortion, such that to maintain his waning relevance in the discourse of contemporary art he has decided to borrow heavily on the title – and even content – from Takana Mathanyula, a poem performed by Robert Chiwamba.
It is ironic that Soldier Lucius Banda preaches love while urging Malawians to oppose those who love each other:
Ndi mtima wachikondi, tigwirane manja kukanitsisa malamulowa (With a show of love, let us unite to oppose these laws [that aim to decriminalise abortion and homosexuality])…
Lucius makes two speculations that pretend to be facts. Firstly, it is Lucius’ misuse of Genesis 19.
M’ngelo wamphongo anakana kukwatirana ndi mwamuna (the male angels refused to marry a fellow man)
What my good ol’ Soldier ignores in this line is that the angels had not consented to sex with the men of Sodom who had demanded for them. Lucius’ imagination presupposes against the common view that Angels do not marry. Rather, he makes us believe that these angels only refused because those who wanted to sleep or marry them were men; as if they would have agreed were the pursuers female.
It is obvious that, like all those railing against homosexuality using the Bible, Lucius twisted the Bible to suit his own position on homosexuality. Unlike what we see in this Chapter of Genesis, homosexuality involves adults who consent to engage in sexual acts with one another.
The mob in Sodom who demanded for the angels wanted to rape these heavenly visitors. Calls for homosexuality must therefore not be equated with rape; as doing so further undermines the grave nature of rape and what its survivors go through.
Secondly, Lucius makes a common error of argument by masquerading Christian or biblical notions as irrefutable facts.
Tisamatengere zinthuzi, tizipenya komwe tachoka, ndikutali tachoka ndi mulengi wathu (Let us not adopt abortion/homosexuality because we are believers of God).
He urges Malawians to stand firm in Biblical teaching to oppose homosexuality, saying homosexuality is foreign. Ironically, Christians and a majority of religious beliefs in Malawi are foreign: introduced by either Westerners who made way for colonialism and thangata or by Arab traders who were also at the centre of slave trade.
It is for this that should I ever have the chance to meet Soldier, I will ask him as to what position should those who don’t believe in these religious teachings take on homosexuality and abortion.
The song also shows that Mr. Banda has left out his old mojo of standing up for human rights and social justice by adopting a strong conservative, selective position against abortion in a similar manner preached by Robert Chiwamba in Takana Mathanyula.
Atalenga Adam, sanampatse James (When God created Adam, he did not give him James to be his wife) sings Soldier who, at the speed of light, moves from his primary theme of standing against abortion to homosexuality.
No one should therefore be taken to task for renaming the song Takana Mathanyula as abortion only dominates the first verse. The whole song dwells on homosexuality. More like a rendition of Robert Chiwamba’s poem by the same title.
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Malungo ndioopsya. Wina akayimba za kuwopsya kwa malungo ndi kupewa kwake, inenso nkuyimba zomwezo mu njira Tina ndakopela? Those are issues at hand. Mathanyula ndi abortion . I thought munena kuti watenga poem ngati rylc ya nyimbo yake. Go and make a good comparison again
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The author must be gay. He cannot differentiate substance in the song from relics. He is emotionally taken up. Did Kawamba complain? Are you Kawamba?
Am Shocked! Here’s Someone Masquarading As Malawi24, Who Measerably Fails To Discredit Lucius Banda And Thinks That Unleashing A Weapon Into The Human Exhaust Pipe Where Decayed Vegetables Seek Refuge Is ‘ COOL’!!!
Soldier started singing before Ur so called Facebook page..mxieeew haters.
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Amalawi umbuli suzatithera antaa,olo mukane kt mathanyula/ arbotion wat wat,we can’t win,coz peterment wasainna kale, he just want to brain us, mukambirana mutopa tsiku lina muzangomva kuti peter akukwatilana ndi chakwera then u will know kt malawi for sale
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kodi amalawi tinakhala bwanji? instead of focusing problems dat we malawians we are facing and how can solve them bt ur busy writing stories thats cannt even fill astreet hungry child dat cannt even stop maternol death and even dat cannt transform economy and so much problems
Welcome To Malawi 24,home Of False Stories In Malawi. Enjoy The Language But Dnt Believe The Stories
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No one has a monopoly of ideas inspiration can come from any one and in life no man is greater than the other.Greatness of human beings is a creation of the mind,Only God is great and does not need inspiration or help from man’s ideas and thoughts.As long as one is still here,alive and on earth, one will learn something from another person who is educated or not.Watching children play and talk will always bring up something new in our minds but they just children,sometimes not even yet in school.Inventors will look at someone and see their need and get an idea.
The brain wash… then you believe you are creative enough in your analysis? Remember culture is so strong than you think, it brings people together ndiye there is no argument in your reasoning and lacks basis.. ukufuna to tell us chanzeru ndi mathanyula akowo? think outside your tin and be free to think in an open environment dont be corrupted with that corrupted journalism school of thought.lucious was there he knows how best to reach his audience and that has nothing to do with you. Be ethical and eat ethical money not from this myopic kind of thinking and writing.