The Wisdom Dede Kamkondo Foundation (WDFK) Monday announced a long-list of ten for its 2014 Dede Kamkondo Short Story Contest, saying the overwhelming number of entries that were received made it impossible for them to stick to deadlines. Creative director at Malawi Heat.com Pius Nyondo, financiers of the competition – which is in memory of versatile […]
Taona Kankondo 29, daughter of a well known Malawian author and lecturer, Dede Kankondo, has been missing since last month, January, three years after she and her mother came back from the United States of America where they were living with her father who had died a few months earlier of brain tumor. Family spokesperson, […]
A 33 year-old Blantyre based marketer-cum-budding poet Paul Sezzie Phiri has emerged winner in the Dede Kamkondo Poetry Contest – beating 37 other Malawian entrants who entered the contest with his poem Bitter Tales, organisers have told Nyasa Times. Phiri’s poem was selected as the most creative poem by celebrated internationally renowned youthful Malawian writers Stanley Kenani and […]
Professor Felix Munthali – Malawi’s internationally renowned poet and distinguished academician – has been named chair of the judges for the first ever Dede Kamkondo Poetry Contest, the Wisdom Dede Kamkondo Foundation has announced. The contest – which was open for entries from 1st to 31st October, 2013 – called for poems from youthful Malawian poets below […]