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

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

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
Almost 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

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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