Opinion Posts

Talking Blues: MCP and DPP, lead us not into temptation!

May 15, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

“You [Mark Antony] climbed up, approached Caesar’s chair … and offered him a crown. …Where did you get the crown? You didn’t just find it lying there; you brought it from home, a premeditated and… ...

Opinion: Nafenso tilaweko

May 06, 2022 Contributor* 0 &

If you ever you want to experience a small dose of inequality, inefficiency, and corruption in Malawi, start at Kamuzu International Airport. You can’t get past security, check-in, immigration, and other formalities without being asked… ...

Talking Blues: Where do we go from here?

May 01, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera is one lucky fella. With the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in total disarray, and its opposition sister United Democratic Front (UDF) in snooze mode, no one can stop or slow… ...

Talking Blues: The day Malawi Police almost played with fire

Apr 24, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 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 Mapwiya Muulupale 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… ...

FAM should give Malawians better reasons: Mwase’s record at Afcon was better than Marinica’s

Apr 13, 2022 Lyonike Mughogho 1 &

The Flames qualified for their third African cup of Nations last year, thanks to Meck Mwase's productive tactics against Burkina Faso, Uganda, and South Sudan. Our boys were arguably odds-on favourites to finish third in… ...

Where is the teacher? educational policies a mock for teachers       

Apr 12, 2022 Masiya Bingiza Nkhoma 0 &

“Teachers are the only human being who celebrates when other person’s children succeed in life. It’s only a teacher who can miss a good sleep thinking on how he or she can do to help… ...

Opinion: On population growth in Malawi

Apr 10, 2022 Guest Writer 1 &

By Lucius Gerrald  Globally, it is difficult to come to the exact number of births every day since not all births are registered or recorded. But, according to United Nations (UN), it is estimated that… ...

What would be Bingu’s advice today to some of DPP’s overzealous young leaders

Apr 05, 2022 Contributor* 0 &

Young men, since my departure, I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that established and propelled you to success in politics, and you are unto another strange gospel What are you, that… ...

Malawians were betrayed

Apr 05, 2022 Guest Writer 0 &

This blind youthful generation must understand that there are three catastrophic injuries which devil incessantly causes to humanity in this decadent world. These evils are emphatically mentioned by unadulterated mouth of Jesus the only true… ...

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

Apr 03, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 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 Mapwiya Muulupale 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: On Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Malawi voted right

Mar 14, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 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… ...

Biblical allusions in “There is no Wine” by Mlaka Maliro

Mar 13, 2022 Masiya Bingiza Nkhoma 1 &

With the attainment of multiparty democracy in 1994, Malawi weaned itself from a repressive reign of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Through the Censorship and Control of Entertainment Act, the… ...

Talking Blues: A clarion call to the slumbering Malawi youth

Mar 06, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 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… ...