I once read that there’s no dangerous man such as one who has nothing to lose. And the words couldn’t have resonated any much louder right now, as year and a few months after the general elections, a new type of Bingu emerges from the cocoon and shows us that he really is in charge of things and he is not afraid to use his powers on anybody, he is Bingu of a new light.

Before the past gone elections, every economic year after Bingu had come into power on the UDF ticket, the nation of Malawi would cry

Tags: Bakili Muluzi | Bingu | DPP | Malawi

Late last year I had the opportunity to witness and take part in an AIDS program that Q Malewezi is involved in. I and a group of others were invited to entertain HIV infected children at a Clinic in Lilongwe and as much as I did not know what to expect, I was rather humbled when it suddenly occurred to me that I was actually having fun after all; music, dancing, food, some football.

Tags: AIDS | Education | Q Malewezi | Youth

We are yet to get over the general elections and already parties are endorsing who shall contest for them in 2014. In his relentless fight to become president still, John Tembo looks like he shall contest again under the MCP, there's no doubt about that.UDF is still trying to find money, and as for DPP, Bingu has already said that he shall not stand again, and now fingers are pointing to his brother Peter Mutharika as he seems to be getting groomed to stand as the party’s presidential candidate

Tags: Bingu | DPP | MCP | Peter Mutharika | UDF

While it may seem that urban acts are the most unruly and unfocused musicians of Malawi, Citizen Xs on the local music scene, the recent move by Rush Records in collaborating with MBC (that’s TVM and the two radio stations for all you who aren’t up to date with the current merger of the state broadcasting houses) to make a difference in the world of Hamsa a 10 year old boy who was hit by a car and is now paralyzed has to be applauded and the guys involved all deserve a pat on the back for their recent actions.

Tags: Hamsa Square | Paralyzed | Rush Records | TVM

Growing up, Bingol believed he knew exactly where paradise was located on the world map; the west (UK, America and maybe Australia) and never in my life did I imagine I’d come across anyone working so frighteningly hard to make a living in these Promised Lands; I just couldn’t conceive it at all. And it wasn’t long before I found myself toiling with the idea of setting foot in at least one of these countries. The rest, as they say, is history; but, as experience coupled with observations would have it, here goes the rest of that story.

Tags: Life as an african student | Malawian students abroad | Promised Land | Student life abroad