"In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight, the self-same way with more advised watch to find the other forth - and by adventuring both,… ...
Articles By Mapwiya Muulupale
Saying that President Lazarus Chakwera’s Sermon of the Eight Rubbles delivered on this year’s independence cum inauguration day excited many Malawians is an understatement. That sermon struck the right chords. It thrilled the nation. Cynics… ...
It was supposed to go the other way round. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) parliamentarians were supposed to go to town on President Lazarus Chakwera during the Presidential Question Time organized under Section 89(4) of the… ...
Sincere apologies for missing an entry last week. Please take note that I now have a mechanism in place to spare you from reading recycled pieces. Talking of recycling, it is enough that the Malawi… ...
Since independence, Malawi has had six presidents who have presided over ‘seven’ regimes. We had the Kamuzu era, Bakili’s lost decade, Bingu’s first and second terms, Joyce Banda’s cash-gate stained short stint, Peter Mutharika’s six… ...
History is littered with infamous con men. Gregor MacGregor and Victor Lustig are perhaps the most legendary. MacGregor, a Scot, is best known for a scam where he invented an entirely non-existent country and was… ...
The trajectory of an average Malawian family’s rise from poverty to affluence used to be predictable. A family invariably started humbly. Then it tried this and that business before specializing in one. What followed was… ...
