Mapwiya Muulupale

Talking Blues: The day Malawi Police almost played with fire

Apr 24, 2022 0

A revolution can be defined as a radical change in the established order. Revolutions typically happen when dissatisfied citizens conclude that government institutions have failed or no longer serve their intended purpose. As a result,… ...

Talking Blues: Easter edition – Can our Lazarus rise with the risen Lord?

Apr 17, 2022 0

”We in the opposition have previously and tirelessly raised such issues of nauseating corruption by President Peter Mutharika’s administration. He needs to resign and call for early elections.” Pres Lazarus Chakwera in July 2018, serving… ...

Talking Blues: Only the dead have seen the end of war

Apr 03, 2022 0

Oblivious to Sun Tzu’s advice in The Art of War exhorting warriors that the supreme art of war means subduing the enemy without firing a single shot, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ill-advisedly invaded Ukraine on… ...

Talking Blues: The making and the breaking of legacies

Mar 27, 2022 0

“I really do not want my pictures in your offices because the president is not an icon, an idol, or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead and look at them each time you make… ...

Talking Blues: Topsy turvy policies will be the end of us

Mar 21, 2022 0

”In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty.” - Bob Marley, Rat Race, Rastaman Vibration album According to the OECD, Russia and Ukraine account for 30% of global wheat exports, more than a quarter… ...

Talking Blues: On Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Malawi voted right

Mar 14, 2022 1

Aerial bombs have been dropped on Mariupol, Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24 [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP] No plan survives contact with the enemy is wisdom attributed to Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke… ...

Talking Blues: A clarion call to the slumbering Malawi youth

Mar 06, 2022 0

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed,” - Simone de Beauvoir ~~~~~~~~~~~ My quest this week is to discuss self-inflicted oppression that can only be redressed… ...