Opinion Posts

Talking Blues Xtra: Merit or quota?

Jan 17, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

The Ministry of Education is under attack. The issue? The selection of the 2019/20 PSLCE candidates to national secondary schools whose allocation of students to Malawi’s 24 national secondary schools is as below: Northern Education… ...

Talking Blues: When comes another Rev Chilembwe?

Jan 17, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

There was this pious dude. Never missed a Church service. Tithed religiously. The Bible was his pillow and was well regarded. One day he took time off to meditate, fast and praise the Lord. Avoiding… ...

Talking Blues: A tale of leading by doing nothing

Jan 10, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Once upon a time, there was a village in a valley straddling a river called Lawi. Its people earned their livelihoods by subsistence farming; cultivating various crops by the river. One day, as they were… ...

Devotion: Pray and Fast

Jan 09, 2021 Pastor Daniel Walusa 0 &

2 Chronicles 7:14 "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will… ...

Christmas Blues: Talking Blues Special, Merry Christmas Malawi

Dec 24, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

For every Malawian, the year 2020 started with unprecedented suspense arising from waiting for the then-pending judgement by the Constitutional Court which was at that time deliberating on the controversial May 2019 Presidential Elections Case.… ...

Eli Njuchi, the ‘Promised One’ Mafunyeta said must Come Back Again

Dec 14, 2020 Russell Chimbayo 0 &

Few years ago dancehall musician Mafunyeta did a song titled Come Back Again in which he foretold of his death and the rise of a new king of the genre. He sang: Vic Marley is… ...

Talking Blues: Kantoletole! Osatolayo! Samwa mkaka!

Dec 13, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice President Saulos Chilima were at Capital Hill on Friday, leading this month’s environmental clean-up activity. This is the president’s second clean-up excursion since Cabinet resolved that the campaign be institutionalised… ...

Talking Blues: Malawi goes full circle, reverts to factory settings – colonial status

Dec 06, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 2 &

Social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, were hot this past week. The controversy was about Malawi’s new well-wisher, Mr Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Tony Blair as he is better known, served as Prime Minister of… ...

Talking Blues: Is President Chakwera’s come-to-Jesus moment a harbinger of good tidings?

Nov 30, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Monday 23 November 2020 will be remembered as the day that President Lazarus Chakwera experienced his presidential come-to-Jesus moment. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace when chairing the signing ceremony of Public Service Reform Performance Contracts with… ...

Talking Blues: The best things in life are free

Nov 22, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Our Malawi society can be categorized in several ways. We could break it into urban and rural people, the educated and the uneducated, the young and the old, etc. These are simplistic categorizations because in… ...

Talking Blues: Isn’t President Chakwera proving to be all talk and no trouser?

Nov 16, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Facts being to the mind what food is to the body (Edmund Burke), I will start with facts. Justice Dr Chifundo Kachale’s extraordinary leadership in managing the 23 June 2020 Fresh Presidential Election raised our… ...

Talking Blues: Let the MSCE and NOCMA fiascos serve as Chakwera’s wake-up call

Nov 08, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Yet to be written is the story of Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s perseverance when most of its liberation peers have since gone into oblivion. MCP’s history is pregnant with lessons. Not only has MCP survived,… ...

Talking Blues: Sex for grades, sex for upkeep, sex for promotion? What a sick nation we are!

Nov 02, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director-General Aubrey Sumbuleta is on forced leave due to sexual harassment allegations which some female members of staff leveled against him. Minister of Information Gospel Kazako confirmed this, saying: “He has… ...

Talking Blues: Team Chakwera debuts in insalubrious corruption-tinged headlines

Oct 25, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

If rhetoric was all we needed to beat corruption, once we clear the backlog of cases Reyneck Matemba is reeling under, we would have had no reason to keep the Anti-corruption Bureau and the Corrupt… ...

Talking Blues: Hats off to the Malawi Human Rights Defenders Coalition

Oct 18, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

“We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You must start with a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way… ...