Opinion Posts

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… ...