Mulanje radio innovator gets scholarship at Malawi University of Science and Tech
A 31-year-old radio innovator who got arrested for creating and operating a radio station has won a Malawi University of Science and Technology scholarship.
Gabriel Kondesi, got arrested in 2008 when he was just 13 for creating and operating a radio station in Mulanje.
He has made it into a first cohort of beneficiaries of MUST Community Innovator Programme.
The Malawi University of Science and Technology, through MUST Institute of Industrial Research and Innovation, is introducing a programme where’s by it will be admitting community innovators, mentor them in a local language they understand, just to add academic value to their God-given-talents.
In 2008, Kondesi aged 13 then, assembled radio and TV spare parts and created what he called Pachikweza Broadcasting Station (PBS) and was broadcasting at a radius of over three kilometers.
If Polytechnic had started this long time we could gave been somewhere far BUT eeee 12 points eeee 16 points
Kudos MUST. That’s the way to go
Is he a professional football player, I see his age has dribbled with a dummy like what does that of most of these football players?
This is the way to nature gifted individuals. University education sgould be available for the gifted who have’nt gone through normal schoolinq qmwhere possible
Big up, this is what we call inclusive development, mind you whatever we call a profession today one it was somebody’s creativity, innovation,idea and a God given wisdom search for more even those who are doing community electrification using natural wisdom like the one from Nkhatabay, Kasungu and Mulanje please let us involve them in these types of development you see we have a lot of graduates they are failing to come up with these ideas and innovations, l salute you MUST
Excellent decision! Skill development using language one understands best to carry out research in new technology and innovation. Thank you MUST (Malawi University of Science and Technology).
This is a great idea. It will push the poor who can’t afford to attend school conventionally to develop their skills, contribute to their country and self actualise.
izi ndiye zofunika akamati chitukuko ndichimenechi
Very good. The boy will be taught in a language that stirs his potential in Chichewa indeed this is a first at tertiary level opening the minds that have offer the best skills. Let’s hope that there won’t be any arrests simply because there is canalisation of skills in these students thanks MUST we never waited for foreigners to pick our best to study in the universities of the West. Myopic approach to unravelling zokoma in our innovative youth
This guy is growing like banana. 2 years in a year l guess
Inenso dabwi!
If in 2008 he was 13, he should now be 26 or 27, not 31 as reported by this clueless journalist
Kondesi should be 26 years old if he was 13 years old in 2008..redo your calculations man Journalist….Demet
Remended yes but still toilormake the training to fit their capacity or else we wil miss an opportunity by training in areas they wil not understand and even benefit from. Individual perfomance and capacity assessment required.
Too late uyu simunamu sokolotse ali kubanja, Mlwian good at frustrating visions, at 13 he was tortured big time, I doubt if he is still sharp brain wise. So which faculty is he studying?!
That’s the way to go. Not arresting the boy as it was.
Actually, there is need to arrest the one who ordered the arrest of young boy way back in 2008. I thought this was talent worthy improving. Dzukamalawidzuka
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