August 01, 2020 Wise One From the East

The mystery behind the gruesome murder of Issa Njauju! A whistle-blower’s account

First published in 2016* Advisory: Wise One from the East, like you, has unanswered questions about the gruesome murder of…

April 17, 2018 Wise One From the East

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Men, said Franklin D. Roosevelt, are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds. On my mind…

April 15, 2017 Wise One From the East

Easter Reflection: Malawi’s ovine petitions, the frog and the scorpion

No amount of bytes or government-biting (Malawi Nation) and no grand slams or Mutharika-slamming (The Daily Times) will lead Malawians…

January 14, 2017 Wise One From the East

Malawi war on tax defaulters: Selective justice is injustice

The embattled Chaponda administration – ooops, that came out wrong; the beleaguered Peter Mutharika administration – sorry this is outright…

August 27, 2016 Wise One From the East

Malawi politics: Of a ‘Moses’ hoping from one alliance to another towards the promised land

In alliances we trust: An alliance in politics, said Ambrose Bierce, is the union of two thieves who have their…

July 29, 2016 Wise One From the East

Mr President, in Malawi, hyenas exist in both high and low places, arrest them all

In Malawi, just in the past two weeks forty eight people have been arrested. Sixteen were students from the Chancellor…

July 22, 2016 Wise One From the East

Malawi: Guns, Smoke and Screens – the State wins round one, lessons galore

As expected, Ralph Kasambara has left no-one in doubt. He will appeal against his conviction by the High Court in…