The British Council, has assured Malawians that the Selector Radio program set to hit airwaves on Capital FM will strengthen cultural relations between Malawi and the UK. “People in Malawi can expect from Selector that there will be ways of finding connections between UK music and Malawi music,” disclosed Katie Weatherall, Selector Radio Programme Manager […]
One of UK’s leading next generation DJ, Jamz Supernova, who hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, is in the country to launch the Selector Radio program. Through Selector show, Jamz shares the best new UK music with the world and the program is syndicated to over 30 countries around the world and it […]
Mtandire children in the capital Lilongwe have now joined the rest of developed countries in technology after they have been granted access to a new micro-bit device which helps children in computer coding to develop various software’s, thanks to the institute of imagination in conjunction with MHub, the British Council, Zikomo Foundation and Tingathe. The […]
President Peter Mutharika has told BBC that he is in perfect health dismissing scotching rumours he was sick after an abrupt cancellation of whistle stop tours last week. BBC reporter Emmanuel Igunza caught up with Mutharika during campaign whistle-stop on Friday in his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) territory of southern region and was asked to […]
For a people known for being politeand a country that claims to be the “warm heart of Africa”, I am rather astonished that many among us were unable to discern that our Vice President’s responses in that BBC interview were meant to be polite and not abrasive. Many among us have interpreted his politeness for […]
Analysts have expressed mixed feelings on how Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who featured as a guest on Thursday in one of BBC’s highly-rated programmes, HARDtalk, handled the interview. A political commentator, Henry Chingaipe commenting in the Weekend Nation on how Chilima handled the interview, said he was a little casual or not well-prepared, arguing it was not clear whether […]
Malawi’s Vice-President and president of the United Transformation Movement (UTM), Saulos Chilima faced a number of probing questions from journalist Zeinab Badawi on BBC HardTalk but kept his cool and one of them was why he met former president Joyce Banda whose reputation has been dented by a corruption scandal, known as Cashgate, which has led […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima on Friday appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) HARDtalk programme where he was interviewed by anchor, Zeinab Badawi in which among other things he stated that he wants to contest for the 2019 presidential election to “save the country from destruction and corruption.” The vice president broke ranks with the ruling […]
BBC journalists investigating a series of mysterious murders in Malawi have narrowly escaped death after villagers accuse them of being ‘ blood suckers’ [vampire child killers]. The team were working undercover to expose men who claim to suck the blood of children to make get-rich amulets when they were attacked by a crowd of furious […]
Malawi’s celebrated comedian Daliso Chaponda continues his journey towards becoming a big international star by recording the first of the series of his own BBC Radio 4 show in which he will take on the role of Cultural Relationship Guidance Counsellor, helping to navigate the rocky historical waters of Britain’s relationship with Africa. The Britain’s […]
Female solidarity is as important as music to Malawian singer Hazel Mak. She is behind a development programme called Malawi Girls Rock, which supports budding entrepreneurs. “We have to stick together as women. There’s beauty and magic in the sisterhood,” she told BBC Focus on Africa on International Women’s Day. Listen to her singing one […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s meteoritic rise as a preacher continue to attract global attention with latest being the world’s oldest international media house, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The BBC feature comes barely months after Prophet Bushiri also made headlines in different other reputable international media such as Aljazeera, The New African, Nigeria’s Tribune and the […]
Nyika Media Club, a grouping of media professionals in the Northern Region, has criticised the attack of three British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalists and three other members of their crew in Karonga’s ‘Benghazi’ area on Friday on suspicion that they were bloodsuckers. Irate villagers at Mwasota e in the area of traditional authority Kyungu , armed with pangas, […]
Britain’s Got Talent finalist Daliso Chaponda has landed his own stand-up comedy show on BBC Radio 4. The series will see the Malawian comedian will take on the role of “cultural relationship guidance counsellor”, the station said. The history of Britain’s relationship with Africa will be explored in the series, called Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of […]
Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe told BBC News that governance institutions such as the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) were imposed by World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying the system ineffectiveness should not be blamed on Malawi. During the interview, BBC’s Ed Butler challenged Gondwe “Why has no minister been charged since Malawi’s Cashgate corruption […]
A humanitarian organisation in Malawi has come under the spotlight for deducting money from its workers, as much as 30 per cent to sponsor cultism like management and is embroiled in fraud and tax evasion. A BBC documentary program, Assignment, says all workers at Direct Aid from People to People (DAPP) are deducted money from […]
Two Malawian journalists Joab Frank Chakhaza and Chipiliro Kansilanga have been granted work placements with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service in London. The two are currently in UK doing postgraduate studies under the prestigious UK government’s Chevening Scholarship Programme. After a stiff competition with other Chevening scholars who are studying media-related programmes across […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit at critics who accuse him for failing to handle issues in an interview with British Broadcasting Corporation’s Zeinab Badawi on BBC HardTalk which was aired last week. Jimmy Kainja, a lecture of media studies at the University of Malawi criticised Mutharika on his blog for the BBC Hardtalk appearance, saying […]