Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is a very special day for Christians throughout the world, a day on which the resurrection of Jesus Christ is commemorated. This is either the most extraordinary event in human history or the most ridiculously absurd story ever told, depending on whether you believe it or trash it. I have met people with both […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesI was once deeply saddened to see maize crops weltering by the shores of Lake Malombe. Drought had taken its toll that year, but these crops were not like other crops in the country. They were so close to a huge water body. It only required some innovation to bring the water to the crops

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf we just managed to do half of the things we talk about in Malawi, we would be a great economy and a great society. As they say, talk is cheap. It is unfortunate that we often do not match our talk with appropriate action. There are two sides to this issue. The first side

Reading Time: 3 minutesMany people have accomplished great things in circumstances that were least likely to enable them achieve such exploits. If and when the rural electrification program gets to Masitala Village in Kasungu district, the implementers of that program will find the village already electrified, courtesy of one William Kamkwamba. In 2002 William, a school drop out

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday’s society is very intolerant of underperformance by those in leadership, as it is of leadership’s failure to deliver what they ought to deliver. They are even more intolerant of any acts of impunity from the leadership or from those that hold public office. Sharp criticism of leaders is always in the air. Yes, it

Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking within Blantyre Mission grounds several years ago, I came across a team of boys playing. One after another they would take a sprint, step on a rectangular concrete block, launch themselves into the air and perform a forward somersault before landing on a cushion of cut grass conveniently placed on the other side of

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn my article of several years ago, about the lessons that we can learn from Ben Carson, I referred to a claim by a Zimbabwean prophet that candidates who chose anointed pens would pass examinations regardless of whether they studied or not. “Anointed” means of getting what people crave are becoming very popular these days.

Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently bought an item from the technician that repairs our genset when it develops mechanical problems. He is amazingly good at diagnosing the problems and remedying them. I requested a receipt for the item I purchased from him then I discovered that he could barely write. He struggled to produce the receipt. A few