Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring a recent trip to South Africa I decided to get a little adventurous one Sunday morning.  I phoned the session clerk of a CCAP congregation and asked for directions to his church because I wanted to attend a service there. He told me that from Kempton Park, where my hotel was located, I needed […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen white people first came across the great Zimbabwe, they quickly ruled out any possibility that the dzimba dze mabwe (houses of stone) could have been constructed by Africans. The African race was not considered sophisticated enough to embark on an engineering program of that magnitude. A 16th century Portuguese explorer postulated than the great Zimbabwe was

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have always stated, and I want to reiterate here, that achieving technological advancements has nothing to do with race but has everything to do with culture. If a group of people develops an enabling culture, they will climb one strung upon another of technological development. They may be white people or black people or

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe country we now know as the Democratic Republic of Congo has for the past two centuries or so been in one turmoil after another. During the Berlin conference of 1884 – 1885, the Congo Basin was allocated to a private charitable organisation run by King Leopold II of Belgium. In the subsequent years, Leopold

Reading Time: 3 minutesI once was on a team that visited Ntcheu on church business. One member of the team decided to call her son in Blantyre to tell him that if anybody would come home or call, he should inform them that his mum was in Ntcheu. “Where, mum?” the young man asked. She repeated the name

Reading Time: 4 minutesSeveral years ago I was given the responsibility of recruiting engineers for the printing organisation which I worked for. As it turned out, all the engineers I picked were from the northern region. My bosses were puzzled over how I, a non-northerner, could have ‘favoured’ people from the north. The truth of the matter was

Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the most economically backward districts in Malawi is Dowa. This is so despite the district boasting a number of very proficient business people. In short, Dowa – and I would hasten to add Malawi – is a district/country full of ironies. A Dowa native called Mr Kondowe partly owns the Kang’ombe building which