Cilic calls for stop of Muluzi prosecution | Malawi’s leading human rights organization, Civil Liberties Committee (CILIC) has called for an end to prosecutions against Muluzi, saying it is a futile exercise that does not benefit the people. Cilic executive director Emmie Chanika told a local radio station that she fears the corruption charges arrayed against Muluzi is a smokescreen for politically-inspired [...]
In defense of the voiceless Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs)
By Nyasa Times
Published: June 19, 2009
Chanika: Urged to advocate issues of TBA | 
In the ‘River Between’ that I read as an MSCE literature book in the 1980s, the author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o makes a subtle mockery of most (educated) Africans who praise adopted ‘western cultures’ and demonize their own inherited ‘traditional cultures’ in totality. One scene particularly inspires me. A Christian girl, Muthoni, from a family that [...]