Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2015 I had the opportunity to visit the Government Press premises of an African country. That time I was the Government Printer of Malawi. Weeks before the trip materialized I was required to send my personal details, including an image of the first page of my passport, to them in order to obtain the […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesI travelled to Lilongwe last weekend, leaving Blantyre on Friday afternoon and returning on Sunday morning, on the 2nd and 4th February, 2024, respectively. I used Kwezy coaches on both trips. The outbound trip was without issues. I wish I could say the same thing about the return trip which, I am afraid, turned out to be
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen an extraordinary son of a carpenter from Nazareth called his followers two thousand years ago, he did not promise them the Moon. His message was very simple: “I will make you fishers of men”. In one case he even issued the warning that “foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of
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Reading Time: 3 minutesA young British man, born to Jamaican parents, moved from Watford Football Club to the famed Liverpool Team in 1986. His name was John Barnes. He was the first black player for Liverpool. As it turned out, Anfield did not give him the friendliest of welcomes. He was harassed at every opportunity because of the
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Reading Time: 3 minutes“Poverty is a crime….. some of the poor black brothers suffer all the time…..” – Andrew Tosh, 1988. While the sentiments expressed by the son of reggae legend, Peter Tosh, give some insights into the universal problem of poverty, this columnist would describe it as more than a crime. It is a curse. It is
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVisiting the genocide memorial centre in Kigali, Rwanda, is as sobering as it is harrowing and debilitating. The centre graphically chronicles the genesis, the execution and the aftermath of what is perhaps the bloodiest holocaust in modern times, with such succinctness that the patrons are left wondering how human beings can act so hideously against
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTomorrow is New Year’s Day, marking the beginning of a fresh year. Come midnight tonight, we shall kiss goodbye to 2023 and forever consign it to history. There will be ululations, noise making, fire cracking and all manner of audible celebrations to mark the passing of one year and the beginning of another. What is
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTomorrow is this year’s Christmas Day. It is a day on which adherents to the Christian faith all over the world commemorate the birth of a very special individual: Jesus of Nazareth. Quoting Isaiah 7:14, the Gospel writer, Matthew, mentions that Mary’s son would be called Emmanuel. He says in Matthew 1: 22 – 23,
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Reading Time: 3 minutes“….kumene bambo ake, pansi pa mgodi, anali kuswa miyala ndi msana waonso,” goes the last line of the first stanza of a Chichewa poem in a Standard 3 book of the 1960s and 1970s. The book’s title was Liwiro. The poem was about a boy called Kandulo who was born to migrant Malawians in South
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen we talk about corruption and other vices that bedevil our nation, we just think in terms of the civil service. It is like the public officers are really dirty and everybody else is clean. The media, especially, cannot be partakers in corruption or other acts of lawlessness, it is generally believed. Nothing can be
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