We Must Learn Not To Shun Insects

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe population of the whole world is around 8 billion now and it is expected to climb to 10 billion by 2050. The land cover will remain the same as it is now, which poses a great challenge in terms of feeding the burgeoning population. We just do not have the land on which to […]

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‘The Chicken Is A fool’

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Reading Time: 3 minutesI get wakened up in the morning by the singing of birds that have built their nests in some cavities in the walls of the house. There are about two or three bird species living in the vicinity of the home. Living at Kongwe Mission in Dowa and later at Nkhoma mission, on the eastern

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Fare Thee Well Johnson, Welcome Soul Searching

Reading Time: 3 minutesSeveral articles ago, I extolled some black people that have made significant contributions to modern day civilisation through their innovations or outstanding abilities. Among them was an African American lady called Katherine Johnson who turned out to be a “human computer”, making the calculations that helped NASA propel man to the Moon and back to

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Surrounded, You Are Somebody

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHistory is replete with individuals who have achieved great things but, almost without exception, with the help of others. If anybody thinks they are so good that they will make great accomplishments on their own, they deceive themselves. A great Chichewa proverb goes, Tiwiri tiwiri n’tianthu, kalikokha n’kanyama (You are somebody when you are surrounded,

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Black Stars Shine Brightly Too

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe month of February is set aside to remember the black people who have done remarkable things and have contributed to the well being of society. We often think that all the inventions that have been made, particularly in the world of technology, have been made by white people. That simply is not true. Take

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Show Us Something Else, Man Of God

Reading Time: 3 minutesA few years ago, a clip showing a Malawian man of God displaying his recently acquired affluence  – away from home – went round on social media. One of the points raised in the said clip was that the man of God was being welcomed by mzungu (a white man). I find it difficult to appreciate

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African Brilliance Is Often Doubted, Denied

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

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