Aids Kills - How A Billboard Could Kill A Child

Aids BillboardLate 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

 

Welcome To The Promised Land

Welcome To Promised Land

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

 

Ladies; To Double Barrel Or Not To Double Barrel? That Is The Question

Double barrell names after marriage

For those of you that know Bingol personally, you will know that yours truly has been engaged for close to a year and a half now and as the big day approaches, I could not help but wonder whether my Superwoman was going to adopt the conventional double barreled surname and become Chirwa-[insert surname here] or maybe choose to go the more traditional route and “Nya” her surname, thus becoming Mrs. Superwoman NyaChirwa [insert surname here] – just like the late Mary Nyandovi-Kerr.

Tags: Culture | Double Barreled Names | Ladies | Marriage | Name Change | Women

   

Zokoma Za Mdziko

Born Again ChristianAlmost 80 percent of Malawians who went to secondary school were at one point a born again Christians, a few survived the temptations of the wicked one and few still exists from the long gone days,

Tags: Born Again | Culture | Lifestyle | Religion

 

FAIR & LOVELY: Malawian women turning white

Skin bleached woman

Some Malawians say that black is beautiful or I am black and proud when there are people of other races around! But Spikiri has always wondered if it was just an outcry for acceptance by members of a race that is deemed to be inferior  by our cousins in the Northern Hemisphere.  

For a long time Spikiri had suspected that people perpetrated the "black pride" slogan as a way to repress guilty feelings 

Tags: Culture | Fair And Lovely | Light Skin | Skin Bleaching

   

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