Reading Time: 3 minutesMaybe because of lack of financial resources, many Malawians do not venture far beyond their places of origin. Their knowledge of the world therefore is limited by what they know of their homes. If you ask somebody from Waliranji in Mchinji about Nyezelera in Phalombe, for example, chances are they will be blank. Very few […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have seen, in the past week or two, an invitation to those who are able, to express their interest in running mega farms. Should it not be the sole responsibility Government engage in this important activity in order to extend the much needed assistance to its people? Absolutely not! As pointed out a number

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change – Charles Darwin. What is meant by adaptability is the ability to change to suit the environment. The father of evolution made the lofty claim given above after observing

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe past two weeks have been dominated by the news of DSTv having made a decision to exit the Malawi market. This followed a misunderstanding between them and the regulatory authority, MACRA, as to how the latter is supposed to regulate the former. We have yet to know the final outcome of the issue and

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe conclude the discussion of followership this week by focusing on another of the important attributes followers are expected to exhibit: creativity. It would not be an overstatement to say that creativity within the followership is non-negotiable. When I last checked, the price of cooking oil was prohibitively high in our shops, while the price

Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week I focused on attribute of followership, namely courage. This week we shall discuss one more important attribute, namely competency. As a country we are desperately wanting in this attribute. There is no denying that we have a number of competent individuals in various fields, in Social and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Accountancy, Medicine and

Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of our democratic presidents said that leading a country was no child play, meaning that it was not for the fainthearted. An organization or a nation can stand or fall depending on how it is led. This is how central leadership is to the running of the affairs of a family, a village, an

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have heard people say History is difficult because it requires you to remember the years in which certain events took place. David Livingstone set his eyes on Lake Malawi in 1859; Henry Henderson established Blantyre Mission in 1876; the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1912; Kamuzu

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf I was asked what I considered to be the greatest problem vexing Malawi, I would probably single out the shortage of forex. I have seen it coming over a number of years. I remember writing some ten or so years ago about our supermarkets being stuffed with a disproportionate number of foreign goods in

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have stated elsewhere that as a youths growing up at Nkhoma Mission, my brother and I made several attempts to construct a bulb from thin wire extracted from the gauze placed on windows to prevent mosquitoes getting in. A coil was made from this thin wire and placed in a bottle with the two