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these discudsions getting too emotional dometimes..lpointing ti ina fact that some malawians are hurting & our leaders think its normal even ze church clergy guys cinfysed lot too!
Anthu akamatinena kuti a malawi ndife opusa ngati amkanama,we don’t see any problem in that but mimicking. We are a nation l fail to describe!
I want to agree with Mr Chikavu that indeed we Malawians contribute 45& to malaise of our problems. Why can’t we just burn houses of all these thieves called politicians feed them to the crocodiles & start new life with no immunity to the number thief called number citizen. People have done in Burkina Fassou why can’t we did it here(sig-MULUZI)
I cannot believe this meek passive replies here. Turning the other cheek, praying that God will one day etc. etc. Totally lame and free and no change and go to church and pray once more. You have to think 20th-21st July, please wake up Someone sacrificed their life for YOU.
While I agree with most of the issues you have raised, I just don’t agree with your graph analysis on the four presidents. The Kwacha was strongest under Kamuzu because he ran our economy better than any other leader that followed him. The Kwacha to dollars or pounds was really competitive under Kamuzu. Also you are not comparing like with like, Kamuzu ruled for 30 years but you only chose 10 years. Despite that the Kwacha was still strongest under Kamuzu. Are you just favouring your fellow economists? By the way I am also an economist but I don’t agree… Read more »
Bwana “kenkkk” Nyirenda , the writer of this article, has done nothing wrong here. The problem is with us Malawians because we can’t detach ourselves from our perceptions and prejudices. We are strongly brain washed that Kamuzu was better than anybody else to the extent that we can’t accept otherwise even in the face of reliable available evidence. Nyirenda is just showing us what the really data say. In research we don’t force ourselves to accept null hypothesis when the results show that we should reject it. Give us the new data to support what you are claiming, otherwise Nyirenda… Read more »
I am afraid you are not convincing me. My only option remaining is to agree to disagree!!!
I don’t see anything new in this article. What exactly should the president do? What would Chikavu Nyirenda do if he were president. Otherwise it is a waste of time reading some of these articles.
Kamuzu=181% (9yrs); Muluzi=2312.9 (10yrs); Bingu=51.3% (8yrs); Joyce=155% (2yrs). Looking at the statistics about the depreciation of our currency in the graph above in this article, my conclusion is that it is good to be led by an economist than wembawemba people. According to the statistics in the graph, Bingu wa Mutharika is outclassing even Kamuzu. Mmmm Bingu was a true economist. If Nyerenda had factored in devaluation Joyce would have been the worst president ever in terms of currency management (International Economics). Even APM, though we don’t have the figures yet, never match Bingu wa Mutharika. Tribal hatred aside, we… Read more »
Let we learn to stand alone for how long we will depend of other people to help us, donors there are doing right to teach us lesson to be self dependence
Very good article. I have one problem. What measures have been put in place to take our country out of the donor dependence trap which we have not been able to defeat for 50years? Is it because our leadership is happy with the situation? Or is it that we don’t have a clue as a nation as to what to do? If that is the case, why do all those parliamentarians meet periodically? What do they discuss, and is it of benefit to me as a commoner? Our over dependence on aid is sickening and embarrassing at the same time.… Read more »
Yeah, … Tick! Tock! Tick! Malawi will never get out of its poverty trap because it has little to sell to the world. The tobacco produced mainly in the Central Region and Rumphi/Mzimba(North) can not generate enough dollars for 16 million people. Funny thing, some whole villages and districts are dependent on vending. Why should someone travel from Nsanje or Mwanza or Zomba to Kasungu only to be a vendor? They will say “there is more money in the Central Region”. So, why does Kasungu have more money than your district and they will say, “er … Dr Banda…er…” Unless… Read more »