Muhlako Wa Alhomwe: Playing Folksy Politics?
Malawi President Mutharika: Government immersing itself in the Lomwe superiority arcana
In a country impaired by appalling poverty, jungle politics and petty jealousies—the voters are in pre-labor contractions. Oh! Lord! Bless their hearts!
They are waiting for the time when the five year long opus, of gross abuses of public office by the Mutharika government expire in May 2009.
Definitely, there will be a media whirl of incalculable enormity to give the most apt narrative of the fall of the “Self-styled Titans” of transgender politics to the spellbound nation come May 2009.
Accepting defeat will be the fitting epitaph for the eulogy and chronicles of felonious acts of sleaze and protection of polyamorous and predatory corporate and cabinet associates—the underwear brigade—who have hijacked our economy for personal enrichment.
These economic and political malfunctions form a sardonic or incongruous counterpoint to the expectations of the masses of a government that was going to staunch the hemorrhaging of public resources by unscrupulous public officers, the poor standards of living, and all the other socio-economic tummy turns that the poor masses have to deal with.
These rampant orgies of mismanagement of the contents of the “public trough” and the colossal improper manipulative practices of tribalism and nepotism by dysfunctional powers that be are basically playing into the hands of those who do not wish our country well.
In fact these maladies pale in comparison to some of the ills of the Banda era. Justifiable that the sleazy-high-roller party hatchet men and women who are basking in the objectionable state of euphoria circa-DPP power play should not be afforded another opportunity to parade their snake eyes again.
Proper to the unheralded drum beat, Malawians got another serving-of-raw tribalism as they witnessed a brassy wave of phony Lomwe cultural activists literary jumping on the apolitical Muhlako wa Alhomwe Foundation concept. This will of course alter the cultural trajectory of this nation as we are slowly seeing huge fissures in the wedlock of coexistence of local tribes which was once the envy of Africa.
The launching of the Muhlako wa Alhomwe Foundation is one of the many scattering decoys the current government is trying to employ to consolidate its illegal hegemony over Malawians. This is something off the heel that will require heavy cleansing by the sagacious electorates.
By promoting to eminence one tribe just because the President happens to share the same crocodile skin with some members of the Lomwe domain, the DPP is taking the nation on an unpalatable trip to self destruction. By pivoting away from national unity to solitary tribal and unproductive politics, Mutharika will find himself counting meager votes from the Lomwe enclave.
Malawi is a nation with so many tribes and it is illogical for anybody to suggest that Lomwe should be taught in schools just because the president belongs to the Lomwe fraternity. Does this not sound like someone clamoring for the teaching of all the languages spoken in Malawi in our public schools?
Where are the resources and government programs that will implement such projects, when government cannot do anything worthy talking about with the very few languages currently being taught in schools? Somebody is in survival mode here! I can smell some urine!
The Lomwe people just like any other tribe in Malawi are free to form social clubs where they can bury each other when they die or drink their sisal spiked local spirits, but to engender their sorority in main stream politics, just like the “Human Toilet” Patricia Botomani-Kaliati was venting that this is the time of the Lomwes since they are in control, is to utter some of the most feverish garbage ever spewed by a human being.
The Lomwes are controlling nobody. The fact is that we have a President who happens to answer to the Lomwe tag, and has allowed him to be abused and used by his hang-abouts who happen to be so stack up.
While the Mutharika government is immersing itself in the Lomwe superiority arcana, which was fraudulently designed to strengthen its political base, the Malawi nation is slowly becoming a splintered country and the cultural mosaics that wedded us together are painfully getting eroded.
Thus to politically infuse the Lomwe Foundation concept in our political milieu is to sow seeds of suspicion and bile in the minds of the masses. It is not a winner!
Certainly, by playing exaggerated “folksy” politics with our rich cultural heritage of coexistence and national unity, the DPP is emblazoning its predatory agenda and sinister insignia on suspecting Malawians. Hamunati...muona!
*The Author happens to be an open minded Lomwe from Thyolo whose Father worked with one Webster Ryson Thom Mtalika in Zomba before joining Mtalika in exile.
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Comments (16 posted):
WHICH TRIBE DO YOU BELONG?
* WISH ICOULD SEE AND MEET YOU.
KOMA MBWIYE, NDISAKUSWA NDI KASEMASEMA WAMVA???
Bingu is like Kamuzu, both of them arrive in Malawi to power at an advanced age.
Bingu is like Kamuzu,both of them advence their own so called Tribes Bingu Lomwe the better word is Ngulu, Kamuzu advnced Chinyanja the better word Chichewa.
Bingu is like Kamuzu, they both created youth groups DPP Youth Morale and League of Malawi Youth respectively.
Bingu is like Kamuzu, Hads created zigewenga and Kamuzu had Zigewnga including Bingu himself, Chapondas and many more. Every dictator (Kamuzu and Bingu) has to have a CHIGEWENGA to say thatanything bad is done by that one (opposition) not this one (Government).
Bingu is like Kamuzu,Kamuzu had one party state where MPs were singing praise in Parliament Bingu is going there see how Chimunthu and others including Khembo., Chiziko are praise sining him.
Bingu is like Kamuzu, Kamuzu economy was far better Bingu is trying but he has an arlet opposition on checks and balances.
Bingu is like Kamuzu, Alomwe and Achewa respectively.
Bingu is like Kamuzu, Hewill accept deafeat in the general election even before the MEC has declared wh the winner will is because Bingu is like Kamuzu.
Kupsa mtima koteroko is demonic,nkhani yake yomweyi? Koma kunyumbako ngakhale makoswe amadziwanso kuti mphaka wankulu watulukira. * feel sorry for your mouth. May God help you.
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