North Malawi independence: Yes, secession is good

Big people have spoken against federalism or secession of the peoples north of Nkhamenya, people like Chief Kyungu, Chikulamayembe, and big heads like Vuwa Kaunda. At this point it seems secession is bad, but with all due respect to my elders, I beg to differ, secession (federalism) is good and needs to be pursued, here is why.

Why Secessionists Secede

People secede to fix historical injustices, to protect their interests to better manage their affairs or just to show that they are free humans, this is rooted in the choice theory.  The PKK in Turkey, the Southern States in USA, Tibetans and Turkic Muslims in China, Some tribes in Thailand, Some Caucasians in South Africa, Some folks in Spain, Scotland, Eastern Ukrainians and even the ISIS guys…so many people want to secede and as such, feeling like seceding is no shame at all.yes

In the case of the people north of Kasungu, secession would be good in the following ways:

Millions of jobs would be created. A new state requires infrastructure: builders, transporters, administrators. Ministries would be created, ambassadors sent out, prisons, parliament and stadia built…many idle youths engaged.

Secession is a mark of liberty. Anyone is free to manage their affairs and if anyone secedes, they would feel good, certainly as they attain their sought after need, some sort of self actualization or catharsis, if you catch my drift.

Resources would better be managed. Bingu wa Mutharika said the people north of Kasungu dominate universities and civil service yet contribute little to the GDP, this would be a good opportunity for the rest of Malawi to better share the resources without worrying of parasites from north of Jenda.

On the other hand, the people north of Kasungu would use their little GDP to carter for themselves without feeling like Lilongwe is stealing. They would generate their own income from Chikangawa Forest, Lake Malawi, Nyika National Park or whatever they can sell to get by.

Secession would free the people north of Kasungu of wanton debt. A new state would not inherit any debt from the World Bank or IMF unless that money went into their territory which in this case is likely to be little, they would then start afresh, paying only for what they eat.

Secession would also be a good way to escape the bad government in Lilongwe. The archaic laws that punish gays, criminalize abortion, give too much power to the president would all be dumped. Imagine how a constitution drafted by minds born after the World War II would look like? It would reflect life as this century demands.

Secession would revitalize people, with many politically alienated and feeling powerless in the current political process, they would for the first time participate in a process they truly own and one in which their say can matter.

Secession would be in tandem age old black consciousness ideals. You see, the state of Malawi was not voluntarily created or endorsed by the native populace; it was forced on everyone by the Europeans during the scramble for Africa.

The Europeans knew but never cared about the different tribes that seem never to cleave when they made African nations. Secession would be the first step in creating an Africa by Africans; it is a good way to truly be independent and saying f**k you to the racist colonialists past and present.

T/A Kyungu said Malawi is united; he is one of the most naïve chiefs if that is his real outlook on Malawi. Malawi is not warlike but it is still one of the most divided nations. In courts people are identified by their tribes, in university people’s villages count – the kind of stuff that was happening in Rwanda before the genocide switch flipped. In Malawi tribe is silent, but material and where tribe is material, unity is utopia.

The people north of Kasungu are easy to mark, they have certain names, and they speak certain languages. In schools their kids cannot study in their native language, they have to learn another tribe’s language.

In workplaces if they are two of similar surnames it is fishy…this is true even for a soccer team. It is easy to feel threatened when you are being watched and marked and treated like vermin – is anyone surprised that these people want out?

From Kamuzu Banda to Peter Mutharika, it has always been the same. Select a few people from there as tokens and keep the north nothing but a green patch of dirt.

The people currently calling for secession in Malawi are greedy parrots and of shaky moral fibre, agreed, but to call their arguments shaky as well is dangerous.

You see, Karl Marx argued that an oppressor works hard to keep the oppressed, most of the people against secession are those that benefit from the status quo…here I will not mention the honourable chiefs like Kyungu and elders like Vuwa Kaunda out of respect.

And the thing about secession is that those outside the region have no say, the fate of someone in Karonga cannot be determined by someone in Nsanje, and so if anyone wants out, they are.

Nobody is going to lose their lives, Malawi houses some of the least militant people, we don’t have the guns or balls to start a war…the only time anyone is going to die is when a political idea like secession is taken personal by those with violent intents.

Opponents of secession should be coming to the fray with plausible and practical solutions like how the nation will ensure that is inclusive now that some sections say they are alienated – not just saying secession is bad and appealing to vague and abstract terms – unity and harmony.

Why should people stay together if they cannot reason together? The Sunni man can never truly live with a Shia, it is keeping them together as in the case of Iraq that creates trouble, some elements will never cleave and in Africa that element is tribe…from Rwanda, to Nigeria to Botswana.

I only spoke up because people want to hide, sidestep, sugar-coat and ignore the divisions amongst Malawians. This is Africa the land of tribes, if we are to run a nation, we must first acknowledge diversity and its issues and then do something about these issues otherwise…well, secession?

Secession is good, everyone needs to secede. Kamuzu Banda successfully championed the secession Nyasaland from the ‘stupid federation’ of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. You also need to secede from the oppressive landlord and build your own house, secede from your intrusive pastor and lead life your way, secede from your demanding wife and live a peaceful life, secede from fake friends and start over, secede from Facebook and live real life.

*The author is a journalist and graduate of University of Malawi and a blogger. He penned this article for Nyasa Times

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153 replies on “North Malawi independence: Yes, secession is good”

  1. ANGAYA INU DO NOT FORGET THE ISSUE WITH LAKE MALAWI WITH TANZANIA HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED. NDIYE NOKHA ATUMBUKA MUNGAIME NDI MATAIFA NDAKAIKA. IFE ATONGA TAKANA. MBUVUBWAWO MUCHITA

  2. I Stand to be xcooled but how can one region (North) become a federal state when the other two regions remain intact as one Nation state? I dont see that being practical but rather say you want total indepence.

    And if this is your long term plan. i swear no one will grant you your wish . No No No impossible. We are already a small country and despite the many jokes we throw at each others tribes we are a very united African country and we love each other. Inuyo mukuyambitsa chisokonezo .

    1. I agree with your sentiments about one region wanting to become a federal state while the other two remain a unitary state is a non-starter. They should be wanting to become an independent state which is where I disagree with you. If this is what they would like, it is not anyone’s right but theirs to choose. They can become an independent state. Else, for federalism, they should be trying to engage the other regions who can also benefit from the arrangement. However, this is where they are doing it all wrong. They are adopting the smarter-than-thou attitude, calling the others names and thinking they will get their wish. With federalism, they will still benefit from the existing established structures whilst they develop their homeland. While with independence, they should stand to lose a lot because I see them being forced to leave their jobs, property and what have you. We also stand to lose because we have intermarriages and as the current law stands about citizenship, our spouses from the north will be victimised.

  3. an abusive husband never knows how cruel he is to his loving wife. every time the wife goes on her knees, the evil husband kicks her more for praying. koma ana amulungu sangakhale kulira masiku onse a moyo wawo.

    everyone knows wat they value most. a yao amafuna ana awo akhale kuchinamwali 2 months n amati kudya nkulemera(xool doesn’t bother thm), a chewa amakonda gule ndi kulima. northerners like futbol n xool.

    if this government had wise men, they cldnt have bn fighting to bring down the for runner in the accademic race, but encourage everyones need. that will help not onky our GDP growth, but it wil also help a specialist in one field teach those who lug behind in a specific are.

    federalism doesn’t mean the north will b a seperate nation, but simply give priority to things that people of that region treasure the most. my priority is not yours. we should learn to respect other peoples priority.

    killing northerners academically is as sinful as asking someone to kil your childs future. kuponda ana a neighbor wanu mumtondo. we r christians. kiling your neighbors child is not constructive politics, but an act of jealous.

    wina is simply crying; ukundipondera mwana! a wat do we answer back? let’s learn to b christians with love. amen!

    if you don’t value your wifes need. pliz let them go. amen! we wil love u stil. amen! its devorce, but seperation. amen!

  4. One thing that kind of baffles me a lot is, the people rejecting the secession n federalism stuff are not northerners neither do they put anything sensible forward to suggest the ‘ideas’ are bad. Is it a fear of a loss or something related. Let the northerners trade their on business and should there be repercussions, which am glad they aren’t, should be faced by them alone. Stay with ur Quota and Nepotism stuff. Mbuli inu! Nakalala asaaaa!

  5. DIVEDED WE FALL UNITED WE STAND i am a northrnr and am against th idea, we r not babies that i need to xplain why its a bad idea

  6. Ooooh you will not be borrowing from imf and world bank? Eeeeh macheka angapange support the nation? Even america can stand without loan so you hahahaha. Wake up guys ask your brother who stays in LL to go home and build good city of mzuzu. Anthu oipa inu kudzikonda kotani kumeneku. Mzeru mulibenso ngati ndinu amzeru bwanji malawi ikungosaukabe ku north bwanji kulibe kosauka. Mumathawa chani kwanuko?

  7. … archaic laws that punish gays, criminalize abortion, give too much power to the president would all be dumped. Is this an open admission Northerners are gay?

  8. The right people to discuss about Northern Region to be a federal system are the Northerners themselves. Inu amene simukudziwa ubwino wake especially amene simuli a ku Northern region, the best that you can do is to keep quite.

    1. It is misguided of you to think that federalism question should only be answered by northerners. For the north to become a federal state means it it still part of malawi and the whole Malawi must decide in this regard. However, when the question is, should the northern region become an independent state? then yes, only the northerners must answer this question. Zinazi osamayankhulira mu chigulu. You must have your facts.

  9. I have liked your views! Kweni para mukuyoghoya muyoghoyenge mwakukhwaskana na makani agho wina mupoto wangakondwa nagho. Mwaniseruska pakuyoghoya nakuzunula zina lakuti GAY, nabokola mwe!!!!

  10. Kamuzu told these people to go and work kwawo, they were mad at him. Now they have realized that Kamuzu was right to send them to their home and they want to go, why stopping them. These people are ungrateful and amaphangira kwambiri so A BIG LET THEM GO KWAWO DONT STOP THEM. A VERY BIG YES FOR THE NORTH TO BE AN INDEPENDENT STATE.

  11. guys tiyeni tingoyankhula nkhani pamene iliri osati zonyozana mitundu sibwino wt umst no is womwa tea azamwaso stop applying decent jokes to we northerners ok bcz u r jst noting wait for the revolution coming soon

  12. You will see these hinyas. Once they become independent they will change there names to Chewa names, in order to grab jobs from the South and central region. Let them pack and go and the two regions should tighted registration of their citizens.

  13. How i wish this could be debated on the radio with level headed and natural Malawians living in Malawi, not in diaspora.
    In brief i will say that malaians have intermarried and are living all over. it is my belief that it is the northeners who left Malawi and still have a wrong hangover of the previous nepotism. some Northerners are even MPs in the south just as it is in the centre. You can imagine the stress that will be caused by this race/regional issue to the families of Malawi. I know some man was born in Mbalachanda, grew up there and he is still there. This man cant know and appreciate what Malawi is at large socially. Lets just lobey the Governments of the day to develop Malawi equally.
    Zikakhala za nzeru ndiye musamathimbwidzike, i personnally have never been beaten by a northener in class. i am a senior officer and have several of them as my juniors as well as my employees. tipatsane ulemu chabe apa.

    1. chisale!!!!!
      this idiot what is he saying here??????? why dont u ask fellow southerners why they are in large numbers as tobbaco tenants in central and northern regions????? why is that north and center has 800,000 tobbaco tenants from southern region ngati u are that brainy????????????????? why is it that when there is hunger of 10 districts in malawi, then 7 districts will b from south, 2 center and 1 from north if u are that brainy despite all coupons being given to u???????? i dont get u, why is it that u measure u success yardstick against northerners when their yardstick is not even southerners, their yardstick is europe and USA that is why they are 300,000 northerners in diaspora!!!!! musova, why dont u ask peter mathanyula to a prove their wishes quicker if u are that brainyy?????????????

  14. @spencer chingwengwe and jay ndi ena nonse mukunyoza akumupoto munkhaniyi.zikuwoneselatu kuti nzelu mulibe,mukanaziwa kuti kumpoto ndi amodzi a madela amene akuzidalila bwenzi simukutelo.

    Chofunika ndikugawana dzelu kuti tikonze malawi wathuyu,pokhala dziko la mtendele kuti akhale malawi odalilika.tisakangane chifukwa cha zipembezo ndi ndale abale ndi alongo.

  15. Tisiyeni atumbuka tiyime pa tokha tatukwanidwa ndi kunyozedwa mokwana. mesa mumati ndife osagwirizana pano nde mudya manyi anu. ANorth Malawi is Posibo It bigings with Me.

  16. Hot debate indeed. Mayesa atumbuka mumadanana nawo? Asiyeni apite nanga! Mukuopa chani! You. Can’t work without tumbukas guys. If they leave muzaonekera how lazy and incompetent you are. Atumbuka ali nkuipa kwake koma kwakukulu nkwabwino. You think federal is evil how? Right now even in UK. Scotland wants to be on their own. Do you know the reasons? Check or google it u will know what they want.

  17. Neighboring Tanzania is claiming part of the lake as its own. Wit happens in the event of war? Lets hope the lake will not include Karonga and Chitipa. Muzathanaa Nazi? Mukuchuluka muli mphamvu. We are one people tsankho ndiloipa.

  18. Just a waste of time my brothers! Just reason with the Gvt to develop North now. It’s hard to go Federal as this will just increase racism and some races will start to suffer just becaz someone wants to steal more from the poor northerners. What people needs to know panopa mzungu alibe ndalama zothandizila munthu koma mfuti basi, and that is not for free as well!

    1. Reason with the Government? Which Government? The President is too weak, instead of resolving the Unima issue as a Minister he buried his head in the sand for 9 months. Instead of resolving the Secession / Federal issue he buries his head in the sand and sends his so called advisor to bribe Chiefs, as if that will solve anything.

  19. Lakula ndi dyera. Muliko anthu angati ku mpoto kwanuko? Muswane kaye, muchulukane kenako mumangeko kaye nyumba zamalata musiye kumanga nyumba pakati ndi kumwera. Musiyenso mtima odzikonda mukatelo mwina anthu osazindikira azamvera maganizo anu opusawo

    1. Osati kuti akulira ndi awo akuyenda ndi thumba la ma miliyoni ogawa kwa mafumu ati kuti aphweswe anthu awo. Mafumuwo pano ali bindikile mu zinyumba zawo _ manyazi ndi mantha

  20. Pls ngati inunso mwatumidwa kuti mumuyese munthuyu like his brother, stop!its so early, malawi nd dziko lamtendere

  21. heheee a joke of the millenium, u aint as gud bt we dont hate u 4 it… wil u manage 2 b here as foreigners? Seeking work permits, automatically losing the powerful positions u hold in the center and south/ ur r proud u’l learn in ur native language, hw wil u stand in the competing world wt mbwenumbwenu/ mukakwana ku mzuni??/ do u hav the resources? U study bt rush 2 the center and south 4 greener pastures nde kwanuko mukakhalilira??/ u own places kuno wil u manage 2 lose them and have a hard fresh start kunkhalango ku mzimba jx 4 being selfish/ ur selfish interests wil tek u nowhere JUST SWALLOW UR PRIDE AND FACE REALITY, u r notn but thorns in our flesh but stil we dnt want u 2 perish coz maybe chitsilu chili nkufunika kwake (u may decay and give manure 2 our plants)

  22. JB amakukondani kwabasi anthu akumpoto. bwanji nkhaniyi simunayambitse during her reign. Mayi uja sakanavuta, pano atakupatsani dziko lanu. Za quota system zonse mukanamuuza pano atachotsa. koma vuto masikono ndiye mumalephera kulankhula. taonani tsopano lero mukuchita kulira mokweza chonchi to have what you want. shame!!!!!!!!!

  23. You hate northerners, you hv bn giving them all bad names, u hv bn calling them ozikonda, atsankho. This time they want to b on their own, mukukanaso. Northerners r tired of being strangers in their own country, staying like refuges in their own country. I support the idea 100%

  24. Friends, Relatives,Countrymen, Mijomba, Achakulungwa lend me your ears. Listen to me and listen good. I am here to bring sanity on this matter and not to break the nation. I am here to break the stupid nepotism. Federation or cessation is not repatriation.

    What we are saying is that resources are not shared properly and therefore each region should manage its own resources whilst the nation Malawi remains intact. So how do we go about this idea?. We are already one people as evidenced by intermarriages. Do you think a Mulhankho uncle with a Hinya niece will allow the niece to go home. which home by the way? There will be confusion if this were to happen.

    Lets discuss what we need to do to develop the already impoverished country. Development should be evenly distributed or lets share the cake fairly. Note that I have not used the word equally as there are some regions with more resources than others. Some have resources but they have not been exploited them.

    Therefore let debate this without thinking about repatriation. Repatriation is dangerous.

    1. Thats why people with a vision and clear direction are telling you to drop the whole thing. Why you continue to drive this issue forward is beyond me. Look, its not about people saying they want the North to be here just for the sake of it, but any attempt to say we want to go, will mean breaking all ties. Inu you cant have it both ways, to have your own country and still be here??? Really??? I thought the whole reason why you are here is because you are Malawian and recognized as such. But now you want to push for an agenda of seceding and still be here??? You dont want to be part of Malawi but still be in Malawi??? I mean whaaaaaaaattttt???? Ha ha ha!!!!

  25. Who cares what some uncivilized cave-dweller from the dead north does or doesn’t do. Just f…k off quietly. Real people have businesses to run. These bad looking nepotistic brats mustn’t think Malawi revolves around them. This country has better things to to spend her energies on than to listen to good-for-nothing morons gloat on and on about things that in the end annihilates them. They foolishly claim to be fearless. People usually find themselves in graves because they thought they were fearless. May those holding the reigns of power in this country open the gates so we can be rid of these stinking bushmen. Anybody can see they are itching to go back to their forests where they are going to be so happy sticking spears in each other’s arses. Peaceful existence with others is very alien to these orang-ou tangs. Dearest Mbumba Ngozo, there is nothing like ‘man of god’. These white-collar- donning clowns are in it for the easy tax-free money. Just like the thugs before 1994 used Kamuzu’s name to extort money from people, these unimployables are on a different path that leads to the same thing : money and wealth. So to high hell with the venomous ejaculate spewed in the name of their gods.

    1. #NYANI you are such a jackass,now who cares a low IQ imbecile like you want to benefit from free things like quota system and others? with the ammount of hate you show here,you need psychoanalysis,you so delusional you asshole,you and your entire sourthen folk combined,the most we can get as an additive IQ is probably less than a 2,on a good day for that matter,so who cares to associate with such returds? not us

    2. this guy is just barking instead of presenting facts, why are u emotional instead of making points so we can start thinking that southerners also has smart guys, but what u write here is a shown of bitterness and less of maturity, it shows how bitter and painful u are as a human being , i think it must be poverty, and u think north is behind ur poverty, ask some smart southerners how they found good jobs, they never blamed their mediocrity on northerners, and they never succeeded after hating northerners, they rose up after choosing in their life that they dont want to be poor again, how can 12 million people think they are poor because of 1 million northerners???? thats a very funny case study, a scapegoat of failing to admit why they dont have land, poorest poverty levels in south shameeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

    3. Number 77 you are ignorant. Iam a southerner but our southern government is not development conscious. Just think of a caring government hiking university fees by 400%. Do you want all of us who are not MPs, presidents and ambassadors to die mbuli because we cannot afford university education? Think again! These Ahinya, they value education and development. You will see that if we go into federalisim, they will have affordable education system in the north compared with this oppressive system that only favours the ruling elite. They want us and our decendants to remain in the poor echelons of society forever. how can scool fees be K250,000 when the average Malawian barely earns K50,000.00 per month? I say “Federation Woyee!!!” I am a southerner but I will apply for Northern citizenship!!!

  26. I said this in another article. The people advocating for a unitary state actually have no proper argument. They result to insults, useless slogans and empty appeals. Their arguments usually go likes:

    1. Malawi is one it cannot be split: Yet Malawi is not one, its made up of different peoples who were forcibly united by the British in the late 19th Century.

    2. Malawi is too small to split up: Malawi is actually bigger than a lot of countries. It is three times bigger than Belgium, Mzimba is as big as Swaziland, and Lilongwe district is bigger than Mauritius and Singapore.

    3. We are better together: Obviously we are not. Malawi is one the poorest countries in the world with the highest maternal mortality rate, the highest infant mortality rates, and the highest rate of malnutrition in the world. Malawi lags behind in every Human Development Index. It is clear that Malawi is too big to manage.

    4. Northerners should go back to their region and develop it themselves: That is what the Northerners want and yet you are denying them their birth right. Being from the Central region I also want my region to secede.

    5. The Northern Region cannot support itself. Why is that the concern of the Southerners? Whether the North cannot support itself is no one else’s business. Frankly speaking even Malawi cannot support itself as for the past 50 years, it has relied on Aid survive thus the case that a region of the country cannot support itself is pretty futile when it is evident that the whole country cannot support itself.

    6. Atumbuka ndiozikonda. if they are ozikonda, why do you cling to them.

    7. This is just the grumble of few selfish indivinduals. Why don’t you allow the People to express themselves to determine indeed that it is only few disgruntled individuals that are calling for secession.

    Frankly speaking, I have been won over by those that are calling for secession. It is not only the Northerners that are calling for a separate state, even us the people of the Central Region want our own state too. We are tired of these corrupt Southerners accumulating the country’s little wealth to themselves

    1. great opinion JohnM, after 1994 elections all southerners who have ruled malawi have all been big thieves messing up the structures set up by kamuzu, its sad also to note that when there is hunger in malawi if there are 10 districts with hunger, 7 of those districts wil be from south 2 from center and one from north, this just shows how lazy southerners are, who depend much on center and north for their survival, we all know that major tobbaco growing regions in Malawi are north and central regions all all districts in north and center grow tobacco, infact the people who work as tobbaco tenants in north and center come from southern region infact lomwebelt dominates the list of tobbaco tenants , which means it is these north and central regions which make forex in malawi!!!!!south doesnt grow much tobbaco, they dont have land, they donated land to comforzi tea estates!!!!! w ecan do without southerners, they have the highest poverty levels in malawi,

  27. am a moslem from karonga, we have been paid in millions of USD to deal with mutharika govt, we have sent some 5,000 militants in iraq to get trained under IS(Islamic state) organization to counter any military operations when things go nasty, and IS, BOKO HARAM and alshabab have agreed to support this operation against MDF, if u think MDF can fight, ask nigerian army, they have a better military than malawi, but are struggling against just militants and MDF can easily be wiped out, dont think we are just talking about cession guys, we are heavily getting ready for any attack by mutharikas, look at goodluck jonathan how he has become an idiot because he never listened to dissent views, he cant even control the situation now in his country nde peter mutharika ndi ka ndani????????????????????

  28. Most of the crap you have put in your article will actually apply even to the larger Real Malawi you leave behind. You have mentioned stuff like ‘there will be jobs aplenty in the new land.’ Fine. I hope you are aware that most jobs (plushy ones at that) in our current status-quo are held by your kinsmen/women? Would you be equally enthusiastic to leave those jobs for your new country and let the rest of us fill up the the jobs you leave? Every one bit of you from the north will have to leave because it will not be fair to create your new jobs and cling on to our jobs here. Even the infrastructure you leave here will be heavily taxed so that in the end you guys will not find it worthwhile to own them forcing you to sell. You guys stand to lose a lot by this stupid talk of secession. The best way to rectify your cries (which are valid) is to go federal. However, the federalism question will have to be answered by all concerned which includes centre and south. Which then already casts doubts if it will ever pass the test.

  29. Good people, nobody is holding anybody’s arse to stay and work where they don’t like. I am in my space and I am happy. Let us all be where we want to be. It’s not like anyone will need to apply for citizenship. Just stand up and walk to your preferred (original) destination. You will be surprised at the jubilation that will greet your departure. Do not play indispensable, because nobody and nothing will miss your home-going. It,s a free world where a dot on the map can mean a country. Shit happens.

    1. if that is the case pliz tell peter mathanyula to aprove this, it is north asking for secession and not otherwise ask mathanyula why he sending vuwa kaunda to plead with chiefs!!!!!!!!!!!! north is challenging southerners to approve seccesion, thats a very big challenge by u, we need aproval quickly

  30. TINGOGAWANAPO ZIDA BASI. WE ARE NOT SINGING THE SAME TUNE AS MANYASA. CAN WE SUGGEST A NEUTRAL NAME FOR THE NORTH FOR STARTERS? – NORTH MALAWI, NYIKA, NYASALAND, MOMBERA, EMZUZU

    1. Gawanani. Some of us will still be working in diaspora (Blantyre). We wish you all the best. Call it Republic of Chikangawa (sounds Chinese).

  31. Comments show that indeed the country is reall a forced loose association of tribes. Mr President allow the North standalone as that has been the wish of Bingu & yourself. There is no need 4 war as democracy gives people rights. Oh! I 4got Malawi is not practising democracy but Tribalcracy

  32. You northerners are funny; look around, you have occupied many influential positions in both private and civil service. Why don’t you use your positions to develop your so called Nyika Republic?

    Instead you have chosen to buy pieces of land in the south and central region and you have built your mansions there. Kuganiza kumakuvutani eti?

  33. You G.Phiri, Your thinking shows that you’ve got a brain of a chicken. Kamuzu Banda broke what he called stupid federation from Rhodesia and Nyasaland, where Malawians chased away from Rhodesia? The answer is surely a big NO and they are still living there up to now and yet Malawi is a country on its own now. For your own information,there are alot of Southerners and Central People in the North who of course are working in our farms/estates as tenants because you can not find a tenant from the North for they are doing other white collar jobs as regards to a tenant.These people are settled there and don’t even dream to go back home and the northerners will never chase them even if they form their own country.There is nothing in this country you can feel proud of. Your so called city of Blantyre or Lilongwe are just villages when you compare them with our neighbouring contries cities. Most of you people from the south are too poor to travel thats why you don’t know nothing.Stupid fools.

  34. Please all Tumbukas park whatever belongs to you and kickoff on your way to stupid north. We are fed up with you guys. we dont want you her in center and south. Kodi kwanu mumathawa chiyani mmene mudayamba kuvutika kalekale ndi ambuyanu a Orton Chirwa, a Ciwambo, a Chihana. ZIPITANI KWANU. TISIYENI IFE KUNONO KUMWERA NDI PAKATI. BWANJI MUMAKONDA KUMWERA NDI PAKATI NGATI MULIBE KWANU. GO. GO.

    1. hiiiiiii. amavutika ndi akapolo half million aja amatilimila fodya if ma bwana a kumpoto. Ok. Mukutiphunzinsa kunyoza ndi anthu ngati inu.

  35. you people of north the time has come to be independent these guys from south they are too greedy its better to make a move we have alot of resources in the north we cant suffer what we have to do is to sit down and make a concreat decision starting from the clergymen, chiefs, and some other stakeholders i challenge north will be a better place to live.

  36. Its is interesting that most of the commentators don’t understand the term federalism. You just claim sale your properties and go north. Read the dictionary and understand before commenting.

  37. mabanja atha. aliyense kwaokwao. akazi a kumpo mukafikira pati popeza nyumba munamanga ku Bt ena LL ena muli ku Bangula.

  38. It is painful that very few people have confused all the so called Northers. I know that changes come with suggestions from a few think tanks. In this case, secession or federalism is being mention without more information on what they mean. The so called Norther who are making noise are following a ‘Sheep syndrome’. All I beg you guys is to think of where we have come from as a Nation not as individual tribes. Think guys. I mean intermarriages, those working outside there region and those whom their children were born outside of their region or village. I can see bloodshed and losing a lot of time to reconstruct the country which has a 50 year poverty record. We need some psychologist to put sense in the president and his decisions. A team of political experts should negotiate with those who are planting a bad seed in peoples mind to stop the nonsense immediately. The arguments from stupid articles from the articles like this one are not holding water and they lack evidence that other regions are better of that the North. That is why the UN looks a the Human Development Index to rate countries development. My take is that Northerners have a very high Human Development Index than other regions. Its is only their perception that when the stay in Lilongwe and Blantyre they are better off than those living in Mbalachanda. Even the developing countries are struggling to get this done. Why are you wasting our time thinking about retrogressing instead of progressing.

    To me I think you made you point that Malawi need speedily development in all the districts not regions. The development issues is so critical and we need to take each government to task to deliver according to the will of people.

    1. ur very stupid.why comment when you are not a northerner.you have no say in this issue so carry your reasoning out of here.its our call not yours,we want out and we will get it.butt out.your not among the people quota or any bad laws are discriminating

    2. i get your points sir, but u forget is that northerners push for public infrastructure development and not personal development, on that they are better developed, they push for public roads, hospitals schools, on that accept that the south and center are way ahead of north simply because of politics, this issue willl explode my bro if politicians are not very careful, that is how boko haram started in north nigeria, most wars start because those in majority never dares to listen to those in minority, Bingu said north contributes less GDP, kamuzu said dead north, muluzi said north will never rule malwi unless chikangawa forests become human beings, all these statements from southern region presidents point to one thing, they dont care of north not even for their public infrastructure development, this fire will be hard to quench,!!!!!!!!!!!!

  39. I plead with Zodiak to organize debates on Federalism; led by mature, presentable and accommodating discussants.

    Capital Radio, thank you for the straight talk with Mzomela Ngwira Tuesday evening. May I suggest you now bring in someone from FOND to clarify issues from development perspective since Rev Ngwira dwelt more on the political angle.

    NICE, any possibility of civic (town/village hall) discussions/debate on the subject?

    1. Malawi?? Such a sick nation.! We will catch up with you in 5 yrs and you will come begging to us very soon. Its the north that got this country out colonialism by forming, MCP, its the north that brought down dictatorship but you shattered our dreams. Stay with your malawi!!!

  40. please sell your properties in the South and quit your cushy jobs in both private and public sector and go!!we want to see the backs of your heads as you go kukays!

  41. WHERE IS YOUR LOGIC MR PRESIDENT IN YOUR ATTIRE OF PROFESSORSHIP?

    The Call of the North of Kasungu to be a Seccession is the outcome of discontentment in the way the Elections have been conducted in this Country!

    This is a Wake-Up Call to you Pitala you must not dare again to steal the Votes!

    You call Treason Case was Stupid meaning the Judiciary System of Malawi and the constitution are stupid to charge you on Treason Charges yet you run to the same Stupid Court which instituted Treason charges against You to install you as the State President! Where is your Logic Mr President?

    1. @ Ngalawa, please do stick to the facts here, this idea of seceding, has got nothing to do with the elections, maybe only on the part that it didnt go the way you wanted it, hence the Ngwira fool is now on top of his voice calling for all sorts of rubish.
      As for the treason case, each and every person who knew what was happening could tell you then that it was all rubish then, and even the judiciary knew, but then it was politically driven. If it wasnt, why is it that it never had its day in court? The answer is simple, it was stupid.
      On the Nyika republic, go ahead, and be quick about it, really sick and tired of hearing about it, but I repeat once again, do cry when the shit hits the fun

  42. We have political fools who are always daring in calm situtions. And we have political nincompoups of leaders who dare there countries because they come to power by chance. Malawi has always been united. Kamuzu had three regional ministers one for each region reporting independently to him. Let these fools visit the archives where in zomba and follow suit and they will rule without having a headache.

  43. I like your drift, but you are being too rosy about secession. There is no more Chikangawa left, Mulli is just finishing it up now. I support the idea, but it comes with some necessary pain that we should all be aware of.

  44. Palibe cha nzeru ndionapo apa. Pakuti ma retired a chitumbuka ambiri anamanga nyumba za ku south & central kuopa ufiti ku kaya. Hedeeee!!!

  45. Next we we will be hearing of the Tumbukas wanting self determination and likewise the Tongas, Lambyas and Ngondes. Eich!!! what a scenario. Let us not stifle debate on the subject of federalism Let people engage in a healthy debate openly and honestly otherwise should this remain an undercurrent it is likely to blow up into something unmanageable and at that time we will all end up panicking.

  46. While it is the tendency of human beings to get carried away when issues like these arise, there is still need to approach this with sober minds.

    My fellow firnds from the North, assume that you successfully secede, have you though of what will happen to all the people from North living in the Central and the South. According to the rules of the government, these people will have to choose between becoming citizens of the Nyika Republic or Malawi. Many might lose jobs and opportunities that they already have like contracts. Where will they work in the New Nyika Republic? It takes time to build a nation, have you considered these issues. We can argue whether you think the north will be better on its own but such things come with sacrifice. Dont cheat urself that it will be just gains if you seccede. A lot of people may suffer because of the actions of a few. Worse still, people who are in diasporra are influencing this in a bad way. They may feel the pinch of these decisions tha you are making and yet they are also the ones adding gasoline to the fire.

    1. why are u so much concerned of how north will live after cession instead of worrying how south will live after cession??????????????? the writer has said in the article by saying the problmes of karonga people cant be solved by people from nsanje!!!!!! those who r in south will choose where to go, but what i know is that they will follow north since in malwi districrination is based on surnames, people hate surnames of northners and not the people as long as they bear tumbuka surname quickly they are hated, why dont u ask how south sudan people found themsleves choosing going to south sudan other than khauortonm????????? shameeeeee

  47. Kodi inu anthuwa asiyeni apange zomwe akufunazo osawakakamiza they are politically motivated sikuti anthu onse mmalawi muno amadya kumpoto asatipwetekese mutu

  48. This is a theory my brother. We mustn’t be moving forward in backwards position. Decentralization is what we really need in this country. But how best to implement this system (decentralization) is our only main challenge.

  49. You write in your comfort, go to South Sudan and hear how they wished they never split from main Sudan,

    This is the first shorts of a genocide in the making, you think the others will take it on all fours!
    My friend you need to visit Ruwanda

    Its writers and broadcasters who started that shit,
    1 million northerners against 14
    Million of the rest!

  50. Well if you preach seperation on tribal lines then what next. Seperation on family lines? Tribes are not only in Africa, and also you need to know that there are some countries in Africa with more than a hundred tribes.

    Preach unity.

    Your article shows lack of education. By the way you graduated what?

    I am from Karonga by the way.

  51. iwe no 4,pliz, leave the lomwes alone, why do you always view lomwes so negatively? Did you choose to be mtumbuka? Ndine mlomwe but but the nonsense you peopel talk of us is now too much.If you want to go kwanuko osamangopita bwanji mwakachetechete? Ofuna kuziphatu samachita phokoso choncho. Akamatero ndiye kuti akungofuna attention basi- and usually he/she is a failure in life- amafuna anthu azisiya kugwira ntchito azitanganidwa ndi za iye.

  52. Let them do what they want they will regrets after we diport there children from south and centre. 5 district = country . Mwana akufuna ngoma ya tsatsi msemere imufotera yekha. Akudalira ulimi wa chamba amenewo

  53. I DO NOT KNOW IF THE UNITED NATIONS WOULD ACCEPT THE SECCESSION OF A UNITED COUNTRY UNLESS THERE GOOD REASONS. WHAT WE NEED IS FULL DECENTRALISATION WITH REGIONAL AUTONOMY

  54. Atumbuka ayambapo phokoso. Anati zii Phi Phi ikugwirizira mpando amvekere wathu Ritchade akulamulira. Zampwesa basi.

  55. Seceding is good, look at how the Mutharika Govervment has selected form 1 students for Nkhata-Bay Secondary School. No northerners in form 1 at Nkhata-Bay. You guys, what else do you want? They are repressing you and suffocating you slowly. A good reason for me to secede is the form one selection . Let Kyungu, Stupid Vuwa go to Nkhata-bay Secondary School and see. Do you think from Mpamba to Thotu there are no clever boys to occupy places at Nkhata-Bay Secondary School?

  56. It is sad that the clergy support this.Think about what is happening in South Sudan.Thousands have died & about a million are displaced.The way I know people from North, every tribe Will want the president to be of their tribe. That is why AFFORD has died out. Pliz think carefully. You are inviting Nkhondo pakati pa matribe a kumpoto.

  57. The northerner they should ask the nigerias how may states they have and if development is the same. And they have to ask their leaders where they build their big houses u will found that they don’t have a house in north

  58. It doesnot need war or demonstration for secession to proceed. Ask northerners to speak for themselves. Forthillians shall tell you what they want I will vote Yes together with 200000 forthillians

  59. Bright, you’re one of the brightest contributors to this debate. I can’t agree more. I can’t wait more. Northerners let’s mobilize. Time is now. Let’s strategize. Have you looked at the latest university intakes? Have you looked at PSLC exam results? You may cry to see how our children are victimized. Northerners, let’s go, let’s arm ourselves to the teeth to liberate our children from the pangs of bondage. Please all of you northerners, wherever you are, rise up – I’m already up and going, but I’m looking back to see if any of you are still slumbering behind in foreign regions. Let’s go, please.

  60. 10% percent of a population think they must have 40% of national resources whether it be government or workplace. Northerners, just pack and go, believe me I have talked to people in the south and center, being a bussness man and someone who travel a lot, even to remote areas to buy produce, none in the south will be bothered guys nor would shed blood to stop you. Don’t make noice daily, just pack and go. Is there a road block at Jenda preventing you? It is not in your blood to share resources with others, any thing in your region you take personally, Mzuni is for notherners, Kayelekera for northers but you want to work in the south or center, give me a break.

    1. But I surely know one southerner who is bothered to the extent of dishing out millions to chiefs in the north so they can help him frighten away the federalists. And guess what? to this person, it is you who does not matter a bit!

      1. Wanama Aise. We are not bothered not a bit. Infact ba Tumbuka you should have left yesterday. pack and go no need to make noise. Hit north and continue the bawoloka mission. whatever that means.

    2. thats is what we call ambition mulohhiwa, it is only in malawi when u are ambitios then u are selfish, bastard, hence they need to have their country to achieve their ambitions in life, life is only for the strong, only the strong survive!!!!!

  61. THIS IS A GOOD ARTICLE,makes alot of sense,why should we be sharing the debt burden when these people spend it all in the south? why? Freedoom!!!!!!

  62. It’s time North stood up and lead. Kumbira pa Nyasaland African Congress,kubwera kwa Democracy zonse zimayamba ndi atumbuka koma ena oti anali amantha nkumadyerera nkuyamba nkutukwana atumbuka

  63. Interestingly, these guys are writing and reporting in the comfort of southern or central regions…How do you dislike something/a place/region and still keep or hold on to it? invest there? stay there? shah!

    And u r too presumptive that all will be ok if the north secedes. Just check south Sudan, they area ready fighting among themselves for power after breaking away from N.Sudan….game on just watching from my islands!!.

    1. sho, why are u worried with how south sudan events happened???????? whatever we do in life is a risk, i think northners are worthy taking this risk, i think it is not u to speak for them, they are up to such challenge, i think if they r useless this was the right time to ask dpp and peter mutharika to endorse their cession very quickly, why r u scared to endorse this?????????? bingu siad north contributes 20% of gdp, now north says they want to use their small GDP, what is ur problem here???????????????

  64. Thanks wapa Nkhatabay, you are thinking like a human being. Enawa ndi dyera kufuna mphamvu, Blantyre will always be Blantyre where all company headquqrters are. Lets build our Malawi as a team not kugawanikana ngati mmene akufunira enawa.

  65. Hehehehe. Tapangani secede. Tanzania izakulandeni nyanja mmawa omwe

  66. Now I understand where this secession business is coming from. People are unhappy about the laws that criminalize gay sex and abortion. So the place is full of gays and abortionists eti? Please secede very quickly, remember to take Aunt Tiwo with you.

  67. Good writer. University brought something out of you. You have potential to replace some of the deadwood in high offices.

  68. Whether Rich Or Poor it doesnt matter what matters is freedom and peace of mind !! Ifeyo NKHALAMBAfe Tivomereze Kwathu kwatha TIKONZE Tsogolo La Wana Wathu !!!

  69. some People from the North are sometimes too difficult to understand. These people are the same people who when Kamuzu said all teachers should teach in their own regions they complained now they are crying for independence. Please our friends from the North ( I mean those who are supporting the idea) know that it can be very difficult for you to be confined in your so called North. Imagine if that works and you are told that every student studying in the centre or south be sent to the North and that any Northerner found in the centre and South be sent to the North, will you be able to survive

    1. i think ur the greatest idiot, imagine calling for cession what does that mean?????? it means all northerners must go back to their home of origin, why do u think like daft???????????????? cession means their own country and u are talking of chasing peolple of tumbuka orgin to nrorth, i thought by cession it means that all northners must go back north????? why r u so concerned of how north will live therefater and not how south will live theirafter?????????? u also forget tha north has 400,000 tobbaco tenants and vendors that side who will face the same when that is aproved, northners who are i south most of them are of substance whom u can pinpoint they have mansions, they are the people u can point and admire hence amawoneka ngati ndiambiri my bro, unlike southerners who r up north who r working in tobbaco farms, hence zimawoneka ngati kulibe ma southerners in the north thats not true man

      1. This is what I am saying that you guys are really thinking in a very myopic way. Do you really think that you can have your own country are all will be rossy with people from the central and the south??? Are you kidding me??? Obviously if you go down this way, also brace yourself for the consequencies. You know they say for each action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.
        You think you can have what you want to have, a contry run by northerners and the way you torture none-notherners in their own regions but still no reaction from the so called dull and lazy people from south and Central??? I mean are you guys high??? Inutu you havent thought this thing through, kuyankhula mwachimbulimbuli. I said it before, dont cry when the shit hits the fan

        1. gwamula what r u saying here?????????? u mean north having their own country then south kunyinyilika how??????????? i dont understand your low IQ my bro, u mean u just insult northners for the sake of it yet u still want them to be part of nepotistic malawi???? i dont get u here my bro!!!! u mean when north has declared that its a country, southerners would want also to join north or what????? riot against northerners who in south????? u mean northners will not hammer southerners who are up north???????????????????? i dont get u man, u must be very confused!!!!!

  70. Look, you idiots! Just because you see there is tension in the United Kingdom with Scotland, there is no need to act like stupid fools by rambling on about something you know will never happen is is just to stupid to debate!

  71. ZINGATALIKE BWANJI UTSI SUMAFUKA POPANDA MOTO TSIKU LINA TIZAPANGA DZIKO LATHU KUMPOTO CALLED THE NYIKA REPUBLIC . AM FROM NAMBUMA DOWA BUT WHAT TUMBUKA CLAIM IS A FACT

  72. if anything ,
    we will have to sit down and discuss as to what name the state will be . I for one oppose the name Nyika . Not to cause divisions b4 and after .’what currency will be used

  73. Opemphera oona akuziwa kuti uku ndi kuchimaliziro. Anthu osaukafe tinali ziii, koma inu mufuna kutionesa zoipa chifukwa cholimbirana mphamvu.
    Please don’t drag innocent into this zopusa zanuzi. Kuima pa tokha kapena ayi, sizizapangisa kuti mpoto afanane ndi Blantyre. Tizakhalabe osauka.

  74. I think this will waste time for development.Or those championing this are lobbing for development,so that the govt is intimidated. Let us wait and see.

  75. Bright Mhango, why cant you secede quietly without bothering us with your disorganised write up. The last time I checked your friends from the north are busy integrating with the rest of the regions, building their mansions there and establishing businesses. Who mandated you to speak on their behalf? Most of you making noise are frustrated people who have nothing to show of.

    1. Iwe no. 9 Mmihavani you are a liar. Bright Mhango is speaking for many of us and you are not one us. You are a Lomwe. Leave sons from North Malawi alone.

  76. let th b indipendnt coz mwaonjeza imgne tsikana 12 points maths 1,bio physo agriculture 2 english 2,addtin mathes 1 osamutenga ku university kumatenga a 21 points mwabwenjeza ndine mchewa alekeni mukakakamirilanji mufuna muziwazuza?

  77. Pure Rubbish, when was the northern region ever known to be a sovereign state. If northerners want self governance then they should leave the central and southern regions of Malawi and repatriate themselves to the north.Then can not share our resources with us and keep the north to themselves.

    1. the north has 1.4 million people stationed in the north, north has 500,000 people stationed in south and center, so as the north calls for secession, the govt must answer the 1.4 million northerners stationed up north to start their own country and thereafter those in south and center will simply follow the new order, otherwise what u are saying is total rubbish, a result of economic bitterness here, north also keeps around 400,000 vendors, gardeners, tobacco tenants from south, who will also have to vacate up north after that presidential order, i understand ur bitterness here, that those northerners who are down south are skilled professionals, while those up north from south are vendors, tobacco tenants, so i get ur bitterness here,do u think it is northerners only who are up south and center?????? those northerners in south and center are those of substance u can point and admire that is why thy look as if they are in millions, but u forget that south has 400,000 tenants up north, and we know such type of jobs dont bring much envy in life or society!!!!!

  78. i totally agree,i wish a referendum is the solution because world over,any society disillusioned by biasness,nepotism,and being treated as second class citizen will feel secession becomes not only a right but also a necessity through peaceful means.but if those rights and necessities are not met then usually an armed struggle divides the lines,blood marks borders which we dont want in Malawi.look at South sudan,Somalia and puntland,Mali and the azawad,Nigeria and MEND plus Boko halam,China and Tibertans,India and Kashimir,Angola and Cabinda during AFCON,Spain and Catalonia,The list is endless.to avoid bloodshed in Malawi in the near future,we better act now to hold a referendum like Scotland in the UK mind you Ireland.

  79. I so much love this article. Most importantly because it just cements my point of view that… We dont really care about the reasons behind for those people who are pushing for secession, a stand alone North with its troubles will be a lesser eveil than paying for the Mutharikas extravagance and stupid borrowing of money. Why should the North be in debt too when all the money borrowed is never used to develop the Northern region? And the arrogance of these Lomwes!!!! Why are we being forced to stay together? Why? So they can be borrowing money in our name and spend it building their Ndata?

  80. The PP administration identified itself with the northern region and I did not get any grumbling from the other regions. Why always you?

    1. quiet right. and the first Bingu admin also identified itself with the north and there was no grumbling from other regions. Remember the unfortunate sign at Jenda “Welcome to North The Home of DPP” Dyera basi. Tiyeni tigawane zikoli muzipitadi kwanu ku mhuju. No more Tumbukas in Kameza,

  81. EISH !WANDIKORA PAMOYO!ONLY IDIOTS,OPPRESSORS,GALMONDS,NYAPHAPHIS,HEADLESS CHICKENS…….IGNORANT ASSHOLES ETC WILL DISLIKE THIS APPETISING ARTICLE.TIYENI NAONI AMALIONGOWA.VIVA THE NORTH!!

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