Traditional leaders across Malawi’s Yao community have made a powerful pledge to transform the lives of 75 vulnerable girls, announcing they will receive vital financial support to continue their education as part of this year’s Chiwanja Cha A Yao cultural festival. The girls, drawn from 15 primary schools across Salima, will be helped to make […]
Paramount Chief Kawinga, who is on a tour of all Yao Chiefs areas to appreciate the challenges young girls have faced as a result of closure of schools following the Covid-19 pandemic, said he is shocked that his jurisdiction alone has reported 400 teen pregnancies. Paramount Kawinga said this at Mlozi Primary School after touring Senior […]
Cultural grouping, Chiwanja cha Ayawo, in collaboration with other Malawians in diaspora and within the country, donated overK600 000 to the remnants of the petrol-bombed Tambala family based in Area 24 in the Capital Lilongwe. The donation will help in efforts towards the construction of a home for the remnants–seven children. Towards the fresh presidential […]
Deputy Minister of Homeland Security Charles Mchacha and Director of National intelligence Bureau Elvis Thodi are the ones behind the arrest of Vice President Saulos Chilima’s two personal assistants on Sunday for “acting suspiciously” at Chiwanja Cha Ayao launch in Balaka graced by President Peter Mutharika. Police sources confided in Nyasa Times that the two […]
President Peter Mutharika on Sunday presided over the launch of a Yao cultural heritage group, launching Chiwanja cha Yao at Mangochi Turn-Off in Balaka with a call for unity of purpose in the country among all cultural groupings, saying only a united state progresses. Mutharika, who also had former President Bakili Muluzi in attendance at the launch, said […]
President Peter Mutharika and formere President Bakili Muluzi will attend the launch of the cultural group called Chiwanja Cha a Yao on Sunday January 6 to be held at M’manga Primary School ground., Mangochi Turn-off, Liwonde in Balaka District. Following in the footsteps of other tribal groups, Yao people want their group to be holding annual cultural […]
Yao tribesmen have announced the launch of their heritage grouping called Chiwanja Cha a Yao -literary meaning an Association for the Yaos- on October w9 2018 as a way of preserving their culture, similar to what former Malawi president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, formed – Mulhako wa Alhomwe. Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, spokesperson for the […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Kondwani Nakhumwa is running damage control after a controversial move when recently elevated chiefs in the Yao-dominated district of Machinga as part of a covet mission to expand the so-called Lhomwe Belt -is the bedrock of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Yaos are reportedly angry because government has […]
Malawi is never short of exciting political controversy. One day, newspapers are reporting that football star Fischer ‘Anong’a’ Kondowe has joined MCP. The next day, Kondowe, who aspires to contest for Blantyre City South parliamentary seat, is back in the news refuting his earlier flirtations with MCP. Exciting news, isn’t it? Recently, there was more […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Kondwani Nankhumwa – who has ambitions to succeed President Peter Mutharika in power – has been in the headlines for “dangerous mission” for promoting two chiefs from mere village headmen to Traditional Authoriries (TA) in the Yao dominated district of Machinga in a move to expand Lhomwe influence, triggering […]
It has now become fashionable in Malawi for ethnic groups to form tribal associations. Following the first tribal associations – Chewa Heritage Foundation, Mulhakho wa Alhomwe and Mzimba Heritage Association—smaller ethnic groups have also formed their own tribal associations. Examples include the Nkhata Bay Cultural Heritage Association, Karonga-Chitipa Cultural Heritage, Chiwanja cha Ayawo and more […]
The Yao tribesmen have clashed with the formation of two heritage groups all claiming to be preserving their culture, similar to what former Malawi president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, formed – Mulhako wa Alhomwe . Recently, a group calling itself ‘Chiwanja cha Ayao’ literary meaning an Association/organisation for the Yao, was announced but another group Ndamo Sya […]
Yao tribesmen have announced they are forming a heritage grouping as a way of preserving their culture, similar to what former Malawi president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, formed – Mulhako wa Alhomwe – which will be called Chiwanja cha Ayao. Initially, the Yao’s formed Ndamo Sya Yao, but the group died a natural death. “We wish to […]
President Joyce Banda has advised all Yao Chiefs spread around Malawi to hold a consultative meeting to harmonise their history regarding their origins and spread. Banda who is on record as calling on her Yao tribesmen to consider setting up their own heritage grouping as a way of preserving their culture., noted on Sunday that […]
Leaders of a Yao tribal group, Ndamo sya Yao, say they feel betrayed by President Joyce Banda for giving them a cold shoulder since the formation of their grouping. President Banda, a Yao herself, initiated the creation of the group through her continued calls to her traditional leaders after observing that it was the only […]
Yao tribesmen are setting up a heritage grouping as a way of preserving their culture, Nyasa Times understands. The group, which will be similar to what former Malawi president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, formed – Mulhako wa Alhomwe – will be called Chiwanja cha Ayao. Quadria Muslim Association chairman Alhaj Likonde is chairman of the […]