Published: September 1, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 3 ... and a new flag flaps |
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Bingu assents to new flag bill screamed the front page of one daily in early August. President endorses flag change, read another. Thus, in one fell swoop, the famously beautiful and richly meaningful Malawi flag, which featured a rising sun in red on its top black band, was history. In its place was something hardly [...]
Published: August 30, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 2 -- Beauty and the Beasts |
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Blantyre weather, much like Dunstain Mwaungulu, has a great capacity to mesmerise. I was walking along Victoria Avenue in a kind of shower. Not your garden variety shower, mind you. This one was very light and there was no breeze. This was no Chiperone shower, this was a fluffy precipitation in which you could walk [...]
Published: August 29, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 1 |
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I would like to thank His Excellency the State President of the Republic of Malawi in Africa, Professor Ngwazi Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, for abandoning his previous practice of making the life of returning Malawians based abroad, whom he knew held political views different from his own, difficult. Under his leadership, these used to be [...]
Published: August 28, 2010
Rescuing the University of Malawi? |
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We have been talking about this for a long time and repeatedly: The academic malaise, social pathology, and physical decay and dilapidation at Chancellor College, where we have both taught since 1997. As we write this article, now at night, about half the corridors of Chanco teaching and administration area are in darkness due to [...]
Published: August 26, 2010
Editorial: The President can do better than threatsMalawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is set to wed Calista Chapola-Chimbombo |
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Malawi president, Bingu wa Mutharika, in what can only be termed as a tantrum of a dying horse has threatened to close down any newspaper that is bent on watering down his government’s efforts of development by amplifying what he has called lies. Mutharika, speaking at the opening of an agricultural fair in Blantyre on [...]
Published: August 25, 2010
Marginalizing the north |
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A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of having lunch with one of Africa’s well known development economists. Our conversations dwelt on the political and ethnic marginalization and conflicts in the Niger Delta, Northern Uganda, South Sudan, Kenyan East Valley, Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, and of course, the Northern Region in Malawi. I [...]
Published: August 23, 2010
Political parties in Malawi: an endangered species? |
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It is a fact that a well-functioning democracy depends on strong and well-functioning political parties. Yet in Malawi it is evident that there is need to strengthen still further our political parties, which are more fragile than they seem on the surface. Unless democracy takes deep root in these institutions, there will always be chaos [...]
Published: August 20, 2010
Timau: Vuwa rhetoric driving Malawi back to old Kamuzu days |
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We, the Timau Crew like Simon Vuwa Kaunda. In fact, we and many Malawians were impressed with Kaunda’s input to the nation as Minster of Sports before he was sacked. Kaunda had a positive approach towards his work. The Minister’s attitude was to deliver and politics was left between himself and his party and his [...]
Published: August 16, 2010
Timau: Oh God! Another player at it again |
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When Malawi’s Fifa rankings continue to go the positive way, some players will feel the pain. That is why the Malawi national football team ( the Flames) coach, Kinnah Phiri must make sure that bad-mannered players are not recalled to the national team. When impolite, self-important and egotistical players get away with it while young [...]
Published: August 15, 2010
Case for electricity interconnection between Malawi and Mozambique |
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Malawi is one of the countries in the region experiencing the most electricity shortage and needs to expand its power systems to meet increasing demand. In order to improve the quantity, reliability and quality of the energy supply required for the country’s economic growth, Malawi needs to seriously consider electricity imports as one important element [...]
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