One of the renowned education activists in the country has expressed concern with the contradiction between the pass rate and the pass margin in the just released Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) results. An education activist Dr. Steve Sharra said although there has been an increase in the pass rate percentage as compared to […]
Unless Malawian youths start taking charge and reclaim their space in a way that is constructive and forward thinking, they will continue being treated as empty minds that can only function once stocked with adult instructions and supervision. The observation was made Thursday in Lilongwe by Dr Steve Sharra, a renowned Malawian education expert, writer […]
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When I started blogging in 2005, I gave my blog a Chichewa name. Chichewa is my first language, spoken by more than 80 percent of Malawians. It’s also spoken in parts of Zambia, Mocambique and Zimbabwe. I gave my blog the name “Afrika Aphukira.” In Chichewa that translates as “Africa will have a rebirth.” It’s been eight […]
Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi are threatening to resume protests should government fail to address an issue in which they are pushing for an increment on their upkeep allowance. This is despite the signing of the forms which the education authorities forced them to sign as a condition […]
Steve Sharra is a teacher-educator in Malawi who will participate in the first cohort of LSE’s Programme for African Leadership (PfAL). The programme runs from Monday 19 to Friday 30 March and it will give emerging leaders from Africa the opportunity to access high-level academic thinking and policy ideas on contemporary debates around the world. […]
Linda Annan talks to Malawian Global Voices Author Steve Sharra. Sharra is a blogger, freelance journalist, lecturer and educational editor. He blogs at Afrika Aphukira. He has published poetry and fiction, radio plays (Malawi Broadcasting Corporation) and a radio short story (BBC); and authored a children’s book, Fleeing the War, which won the 1995 British […]