The Malawian prison band which was nominated in the Best World Music Album category at the Grammys Awards has received a major boost from MultiChoice Malawi who have donated two acoustic guitars to as they prepare to release their second album titled Umboni Ndilinawo. The Zomba Prison Project were the first Malawian music outfit to […]
A band made up of inmates from one of Malawi’s most congested prisons in Zomba which secured the country’s first Grammy nomination will not be at the Grammy Awards because the prisoners’ legal cases make international travel impossible, according to American music producer Ian Brennan. The 2016 Grammys take place in Los Angeles, in United […]
Men and women unprotected and crowded under the hot sun. The barren stone floor on which they sit is part of the Central Prison of Malawi. In Zomba, an extraordinary and impressive album with musical documents about the unspeakable conditions of the prison under which its occupants have to live, arose. The only public awareness […]
For the first time ever, Malawi has been nominated for the 58th Grammy Awards, revealed on Monday and are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in February. Interestingly, it is no celebrated musician nominated from Malawi, but a prison music group known as Zomba Prison Project. This is a band from the Zomba Maximum […]