tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5324603059847835122024-02-21T05:16:18.935+02:00Protest-Politics and CultureOnly for the initiated, the open-minded and the true patriots.Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-18955366029269183762021-07-06T02:26:00.002+02:002021-07-06T02:30:04.851+02:00Malawi - 100 Reasons Not to Celebrate 'Independence'<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ah, 6 July. Another opportunity
for Malawians to pretend to celebrate independence. At least now it's just the pretense,
when Kamuzu ruled the land, it was like North Korea up in this place. You couldn’t
even breathe lest the state and its regime thuggery deem you unpatriotic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We shouldn’t be celebrating independence
and here are some reasons why. In summary, we shouldn’t be celebrating because
we are actually not independent. Let me explain:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I will not bother you with the
figures, but we are deeply DEPENDENT on foreign aid. I don’t know of an
election that we funded using our own money and at some point, 40 percent of
our budget was funded by white people and that is still true now, I think. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7EE3KYPcRQc/UJjj_golJPI/AAAAAAAAAz0/cKNud7VBl5I-wrWd0W8WmP25gBaLqFe1gCPcBGAYYCw/s1024/A%2Bbathroom%2Bto%2BRose%2Ba%2Brubish%2Bpit%2Bto%2Bmany.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7EE3KYPcRQc/UJjj_golJPI/AAAAAAAAAz0/cKNud7VBl5I-wrWd0W8WmP25gBaLqFe1gCPcBGAYYCw/s320/A%2Bbathroom%2Bto%2BRose%2Ba%2Brubish%2Bpit%2Bto%2Bmany.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malawi the shithole</td></tr></tbody></table>We RELY on the world bank and EU
and USAID for grants and loans. Forget that we totally mess up the money when
we get it, like the time we took a huge loan from China to build a stadium
which we cannot use or when we got huge loans to build toilets or that time, we
got a loan and bought faulty tractors from India.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Look around now, with COVID
running riot, we need the international community to give us vaccines. If the
Global Fund and the Bill Gates of this world stopped funding our hospitals, deaths would spike tomorrow. Malawians get to go to hospital for free and get
ART for free because of donors. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Malawians can spew out babies
like rabbits because they know that the donors will step in with handouts of mosquito
nets for their malaria, water treatment drugs and even essential drugs in case
one of their seven babies gets sick. <o:p></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqmK7GNHd3Bmsbqboa8BmpKBPKYffpDR1M5TdSz3ilvMs8lDqRDZeZ_SOk242zmo3eLooyWizsjW0qhrdCQJAEi3NwN_v5GQm5StoM3FB4iy0uqJYGuM37HcMJrFDNhMlWv1Rqs5Svog/s964/Gule_Wamkulu_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqmK7GNHd3Bmsbqboa8BmpKBPKYffpDR1M5TdSz3ilvMs8lDqRDZeZ_SOk242zmo3eLooyWizsjW0qhrdCQJAEi3NwN_v5GQm5StoM3FB4iy0uqJYGuM37HcMJrFDNhMlWv1Rqs5Svog/s320/Gule_Wamkulu_2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malawians</td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">At some point the Norwegians were
paying part of our doctor’s salaries and if you ever go to a health
institution, it's Europe everywhere. From the Library at College of Medicine to cancer
wards and machines that matter at our hospitals. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is as if white people feel so
guilty of being racist in the past that they give us all we need at the basic
level. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wouldn’t you agree that the ‘Independence’
day should instead be a day to thank white people for all they have done and
keep doping to our undeserving shithole of a country? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Yes, I said shithole because when
Donald Trump said it he was deemed racist, but as someone who comes from the
poorest country and having lived in the high-density areas there, I can assure
you, we do indeed live side by side with shit. We are shit. Go to Blantyre or
Tsoka Market and see where they place the fish for sale or the water they use
to clean your vegetables…but don’t worry, if at all cholera breaks out, aid flows
in. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Talk of training, essential government
personnel have to wait for Israel or the UK or the US to offer them training,
otherwise government wouldn’t have its civil servants going for further
studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, we are always toeing
the line of the donors because they dictate how we behave after attending their
schools or using their funds to attain skills. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Talk of schools, when I was growing
up all books were printed with help from Canada and when the primary schools
became free, the costs were mostly pushed to, you guessed it, white people. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We use the English language in
school and offices and to have any sort of status, you need to know English –
that is not independence because it just so happens that English is the
language of our former masters.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We cherish a good bottle of sprite;
our music is American and our movies too. We cannot point to any genre as being
Malawian and our dress our food is all heavily influenced from the outside,
just like a dependent nation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our biggest cash crops are
tobacco and tea all cater to demands in Europe. If white people say we don’t want
to smoke, we have no economy, if white people say we want to buy it at 1 dollar
per kilo, we also have no choice. As such we are dependent not the other way
round. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1x5DKZM_p8/UCUHQS86eII/AAAAAAAAAYo/kfifNQfD01M85vHa8D_wi7IX1KACTpZLACPcBGAYYCw/s4000/Liwonde%2B031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1x5DKZM_p8/UCUHQS86eII/AAAAAAAAAYo/kfifNQfD01M85vHa8D_wi7IX1KACTpZLACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Liwonde%2B031.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Goes in Malawi</td></tr></tbody></table>The same goes for the other part of
the economy, we use the SWIFT system, have to buy oil in dollars and we cannot
even ban the sale of second-hand clothes that choke local manufacturing
capacity lest we anger the Americans. We are dependent. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">While we export seeds and
leaves, we import everything else from paint to sofas to radios even if the
wood that was used to make the sofas is from right here. And that is a classic
case of dependence, my people. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The technology is all foreign, we
cannot even make toothpicks around here, if Google says it's blocking Malawi, we
will be stuck with Bing and the list goes on. We are dependent, I said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What is Malawian philosophy? What
great theory has come out of Malawi so far? See? We are humanists, democrats,
and we love Jesus and Muhammad and most of our local myths are based on
Sophocles or Aesop. That is dependence because the Indians will tell you tales
of Shiva and The Persians and Arabs will quote from their history and we have
nothing. It's why we try hard to make some people like Kamuzu appear heroic when
they are really just despots. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_8p5INbQ8GU/UavN7yGrXGI/AAAAAAAABPo/MC9-onLf6IgZy4dOEsu8-cx4FP6Hr5MZQCPcBGAYYCw/s1024/Handell%2Benjoys%2Ba%2Btune%2Bwith%2Bwomen%2Bin%2BRumphi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_8p5INbQ8GU/UavN7yGrXGI/AAAAAAAABPo/MC9-onLf6IgZy4dOEsu8-cx4FP6Hr5MZQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Handell%2Benjoys%2Ba%2Btune%2Bwith%2Bwomen%2Bin%2BRumphi.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We love and need European Aid </td></tr></tbody></table>Our government is based on Greek
texts and dictated to us by white folk and most treaties we sign and adhere to
are all minted in white boardrooms. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What are we free to do? How independent
are we? Independent from who? From What? Britain? Our biggest donor? The giver
of English? The prime destination for our doctors? The owners of the CCAP
churches? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, lets gather in our hootenannies and thank
the white man for all he has and keeps doing, what would we be without him and
on this day, let us celebrate our dependence without making it ironic. <o:p></o:p></p>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0Lilongwe, Malawi-13.9626121 33.7741195-70.503437814719831 -36.5383805 42.578213614719836 104.0866195tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-73483209858226821342021-02-06T06:41:00.002+02:002021-02-06T06:42:54.356+02:00Chewas think they made it in life<p> The Chewa Heritage Foundation is looking for Chewa CVs. NonChewas
need not apply! They want to see which Chewas have skills, you know, there
might be some vacancies that might need a Chewa candidate in the Tonse future.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though they are frantically trying to walk away from the release,
two journalists have authenticated the release. They can deny it all they want;
it is only because of the furore. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpbkI5UO8yc/YB4bbTAdyJI/AAAAAAABrwo/XVTuUNI-q60pEKeSLVtITZDTvYLpIRgtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s964/Gule_Wamkulu_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="750" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpbkI5UO8yc/YB4bbTAdyJI/AAAAAAABrwo/XVTuUNI-q60pEKeSLVtITZDTvYLpIRgtQCLcBGAsYHQ/w228-h306/Gule_Wamkulu_2.jpg" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nyau -Gold Standard of 'Malawian Culture'</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />We love our Chewa brothers, the history of Malawi is in part
the history of the Chewas, but someone needs to call them out on their never-ending
tribal myopia and mania.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chewas came to Malawi in the 1500s, they found this land
occupied by short people who they called Akafula. They brutally murdered them
in what can be argued as the first ever genocide. I say this to highlight the
fact that they should know that they came here from elsewhere, just like the
rest of us. The only people who were here before history, we killed them all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chewas by and large learned how to trade and live with
others and endure modern problems such as slavery and colonialism together.
From Chilembwe to Yatuta Chisiza, Malawians of all tribal calling stood up
until they took down white rule. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As soon as the country won the war over colonial rule,
however, Chewacentrism reared its ugly head. Kamuzu was put at the centre of Malawi
and his policies were to be Chewacentric. Malawians have never had a frank
discussion on how tribal thought gave us that dictator.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He moved the capital from Zomba to a dusty patch close to
his tribal homeland, he filled government positions with his tribesmen. The ‘new‘
country was to be named after their kingdom and while that was only fair since
they were/are the dominant group, they started pushing it.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-Cx66LoWw0/YB4cwNa2F1I/AAAAAAABrw8/nkNFOUVT2WQvvLa8AfKwypV0kpQ6fJRIACLcBGAsYHQ/s852/chewa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="730" height="335" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-Cx66LoWw0/YB4cwNa2F1I/AAAAAAABrw8/nkNFOUVT2WQvvLa8AfKwypV0kpQ6fJRIACLcBGAsYHQ/w287-h335/chewa.JPG" width="287" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Shameless Release</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tumbuka, among other tribal languages, was taught in
schools, they stopped it, they held book-burning sessions just like the dark
ages or Mao’s Cultural Revolution. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They did not want teachers from the north, so they sent them
packing and forcibly transferred them away from the Chewa heartland. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Quota System was first implemented by a heavily Chewanised administration.
People had to change names to make them sound Chewa to make it in life. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They made their tribal language the national language and
set up a Chichewa Board at Chancellor College, funnelled money into developing
their language. Even Yao children grew up learning <i>‘Maliro ndi Miyambo ya a
Chewa’</i> as if they didn’t have their own rites. You see. they justify it as
trying to promote national unity, but notice how they only want others to erase
their identities and adopt theirs. Strange unity, this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just like before, Malawians of all calling banded together
to fight the Chewacentric MCP tyranny. People lost their lives and some
families will never be whole again because they stuck their neck out and dared
a Chewa backed Kamuzu. Malawi won.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the record, Most Chewas voted against multiparty
politics in the early 90s, they also overwhelmingly voted for MCP in the following
general elections - meaning to say - they wanted Kamuzu Banda <a href="https://africanelections.tripod.com/mw_detail.html#1993_Referendum">to stay
on</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a matter of fact, no matter what any other candidate
says, the Chewa block always largely votes MCP nonetheless. They are a tribal cabal
by definition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br />When the Mutharika dynasty rose up and plunged Malawi into
another sunken phase, Malawians rose up again from Timothy Mtambo, who can
barely speak Chichewa, to Winiko. Malawi rose up again and won. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As soon as MCP got back in power, it seems the old thinking
still exists. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many people are comparing the latest move by the Chewa body
to Mhlakho wa Ahlomwe, they are wrong. What the Lhomwe were doing was just them
trying to do what the Chewas started back in the Kamuzu days. The Chewa wrote
the tribalism book.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, what do we do now? Well, Chewas will not change in our lifetimes,
they are always going to feel like the rest of us are deputy Malawians, after
all we speak their language, when one googles ‘Malawian culture,’ their Nyau
comes up. Let them be, the solution to the folly lies in two things that you
might not be thinking of: A strong UTM and 50+1!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As soon as they try to make Malawi a Chewa project, UTM
should get out of the Tonse Alliance and band with another party that will starve
<i>them</i> of the votes needed to make government in the 50+1 system. Let them
be MCP/Chewa and let them face the rest of the country at the ballot.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe it is a mistake to pretend that they are superior.
Maybe it is time someone got an injunction against teaching Chichewa to
nonChewa people. Maybe it is time we made all languages in Malawi official. <o:p></o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tyvrE3zq1lU/YB4b80osGYI/AAAAAAABrww/ocezQ6y9SIsXHLpjCo_cm9DWErJ9ci1kACLcBGAsYHQ/s1085/Chewas.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1085" height="455" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tyvrE3zq1lU/YB4b80osGYI/AAAAAAABrww/ocezQ6y9SIsXHLpjCo_cm9DWErJ9ci1kACLcBGAsYHQ/w560-h455/Chewas.JPG" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Give us dictatorship - Chewa voting patterns in 93 Referendum</td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You see a Chewa man can live in Nkhatabay for forty years
and not even learn the local language because they feel others must bow to
their culture. When someone speaks Chichewa with Yao or Lhomwe accent they also
get laughed at because you see, you can never be Chewa if you are not. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Time to end the hegemony. If they want a kingdom, we can
split up the country, it's not like we would mind not being in the same country
with our Nyau-wearing, rat-eating neighbours. What will we lose? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If they feel this is their country, then we can let them
have it. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The truth is, Chewa districts harbour some of the poorest Malawians, if you go to Nsundwe it's not uncommon for Nyau to raid a market and take other people's property, they also harbour some of the biggest illiterate folk and we saw how they needed a whole 21 point to enter college under quota. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Instead of trying to band with the rest of the country to uplift the nation and make it better, they don't want to leave their 1800 thought behind. Some are very proud to be ignorant and the entitlement of some is sickening. They behave as if everyone in Lilongwe or government should pay homage to the Chewa landowners and kings. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Politicians love them poor, ignorant. They lionize Kamuzu Banda and make them blindly vote MCP because they are promised entitlement. They believe that they need to be fed and petted like precious dogs. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Someone had to say it.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Disclaimer: I am not a subject of Gawa Undi, in fact, fuck Gawa Undi and he can send me his CV, I am out of tissue paper. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-77821663737687424372021-02-05T07:48:00.006+02:002021-02-05T08:47:36.735+02:00Maneb Boss Arrest Either Historic or Dangerous<p> <span style="text-align: justify;">Look, I am all for this: if
public officials are to be arrested for doing a bad job, then let's goooooo! It
is however strange that of all the public officers that have been doing bad
jobs it seems only one person has been arrested and that is kind of weird to be
honest.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">Before you continue, This commentary is written with the assumption that you are aware of the arrest of the suspended MANEB chief. See here if you are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/times.mw/posts/3648846771867640" target="_blank">unupdated</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The soon to be former MANEB boss, Gerald Chiunda, was
everything one hates in a public officer. If you read audit reports from MANEB
when he was there you will see how he flouted procurement procedures, how MANEB
promoted and recruited people without proper procedure. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zOmEMunvI8Q/YBzasl_ivHI/AAAAAAABrvw/QL20TfUK3UEe1UQmnq_xlwL6O-M7-3u1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/145719649_3648846708534313_363814137254829709_o.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zOmEMunvI8Q/YBzasl_ivHI/AAAAAAABrvw/QL20TfUK3UEe1UQmnq_xlwL6O-M7-3u1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/145719649_3648846708534313_363814137254829709_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chiunda - No Angel, but...</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Some people at MANEB actually
allege that they were entrapped and then fired in the most DPP way possible
while Chiunda was there. <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The list is long, to be honest,
there are so many things that make me happy to see the guy behind bars, but the
charge sheet of the crime he is currently charged with is really curious to be
honest. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Here is how Jarson Malowa of
Times <a href="https://www.facebook.com/times.mw/posts/3653202768098707" target="_blank">reported </a>the story yesterday: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>‘Suspended Malawi National
Examinations Board (Maneb) Executive Director, Gerald Chiunda, will remain in
custody after the Senior Resident Magistrate (SRM) Court in Zomba reserved its
ruling on bail application until next Tuesday, February 9, 2021.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>The other three accused are
the board's Head of Security, Owen Khuntho, Chief Examinations Development
Officer and Chief Examinations Security Officer, Ishmael Faki and Joseph
Chilombe, respectively.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>The four were arrested on
allegations that they failed to exercise due care and attention in relation to
the security of national examination materials.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>The case is related to the
leakage of 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>They both deny the charges
leveled against them.’<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So here are the important basics:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">MANEB has been shit lately and
under Chiunda. Chiunda is suspended. He is not accused of leaking the exams,
but not being careful enough to prevent the leak. He is at the time of writing
this in jail awaiting his bail application. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Cool. Firstly, is this really
something that he has to be kept in jail over? What would he do if he was at
home? Allow more leaks? He is suspended for Christ’s sake!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">That is not even my biggest issue
with the arrest of this guy, the issue is that why are the arrests of bad office holders starting only
now? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Who at the Reserve Bank has been
arrested for the billions that have been stolen? Which jail holds the guy who oversaw the coffers have billions get stolen during the Cash Gate years? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Why have police chiefs not been
arrested for crimes that saw civilians die in their custody or during demonstrations
such as those of 20 July? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Who has been arrested at Road Traffic
for the fake licenses that get issued to motorists who go on to cause accidents
on the roads? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When hospitals run out of medicines
and people die, I don’t see any doctors or anyone from the Medical Stores or
Ministry of Health being arrested for it? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What about the guys that blew the
COVID money where are the arrest warrants? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our soccer national team is also
losing too many matches and wasting billions, who needs to get arrested? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The most glaring example being MEC. A whole court found them incompetent. They wasted money on foreign lawyers and kept grandstanding until the costs to the taxpayers hit billions. Why was Ansah not arrested? Why is Sangwani Mwafulirwa not in Jail?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Remember when they got a loan to
buy shitty tractors from India and then all they did was made to apologize? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You get the picture, it seems
this Chiunda guy, as much as he sucks is being targeted for political ends. The
government seems to be looking for a way to show the nation that it is in
control even though the leak happened under them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If we are going to hold public
officials criminally liable, let's do it, but let’s do it across the board and let’s
put the phrases in the contracts of these men and also not forget to clarify
the law to the public. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Where in the Penal Code is what
crime, people need to know, and if they know, they should be able to tell why
people at ESCOM can waste money and enter into shitty deals that drain public
coffers and yet not get arrested. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">People need to know how, for example, Peter Mutharika used government money to buy buses for private teams and lied
about it and yet never even get to attend a hearing on it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Something is not right. The arrest
of Chiunda is either an historic milestone or it is symptomatic of something very sinister. <o:p></o:p></p>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-43300931350869557952021-02-05T05:19:00.091+02:002021-02-05T05:50:38.670+02:00Reality Check: Europeans United a Divided, Imploding Africa<p><span style="text-align: justify;">Time to sober up. Europeans united Africa. Here is how.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">You have
probably been in a class or been bombarded with tales of how old white men sat at the 1884 Berlin Conference to carve up Africa greedily among
themselves. </span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">That conference is also the genesis of Africa’s ills today and then,
some say. </span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">It’s time to revisit this and set
a few records straight. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Europeans actually united Africa. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">At the
time of the partition, Africa had over 10,000 polities or what you would call
nations if they were allowed to morph into today’s Westphalian style countries.
See the Murdock Ethnic Map for reference.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">How does one divide 10,000 into
about 40 parts? And what would Africa be if those zillion ethnic groups were
left to their devices?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tSEE-h3J7w0/YBy4o0As76I/AAAAAAABrvg/unpdzr_BqjUit_5hHZ7SvYFt9hoYrokXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2255t975y0r21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1314" data-original-width="2048" height="503" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tSEE-h3J7w0/YBy4o0As76I/AAAAAAABrvg/unpdzr_BqjUit_5hHZ7SvYFt9hoYrokXgCLcBGAsYHQ/w410-h503/2255t975y0r21.png" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If countries were to be made from Africa's ethnic groups - United? </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The partition did not also disrupt
a united Africa or any wholesome kingdoms, if we can trace the last time Africa
was more divided it would have to be just before Africa was carved up among Europeans.
In fact, Europeans had to create chieftainships in places where there were none
such as in the acephalous villages of the Igbos in Southern Nigeria.</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The French imposed <b><i>chef de
cantons </i></b>who were mere clerks. Today Africans deeply respect traditional
authority and rally around their chiefs, which is a unifying factor and also a
product of the partition and of course Frederik Lugard. <i>(See: </i><em><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;">The Fate of Africa</span></b></em><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of
Despair, by. </span></span></i><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;">Martin
Meredith</span></b></em><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. New York: PublicAffairs. 2005.) </span></span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">To understand this, we need to go
back, way back to the beginning of the 1800s and start in South Africa. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Shaka Zulu was rising and
militarizing the Zulu Kingdom this, though contested (see The Cobbing Controversy),
sparked chaos in Southern Africa -a period known as the Mfecane. It can be
argued that it was the first major widespread war as it saw up to 2 million
Africans die as tribes fleeing from Shaka Zulu invaded/pillaged/ran over others
as they themselves fled northwards.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Mfecane saw Zwangendaba's men reaching as far as northern Malawi, conquering local tribes there. All this was
before 1840. I should know because my own tribe’s kingdom was subjugated by
these marauding Ngonis and it took the British to restore the Chikulamayembe
Kingdom in the first decade of the 1900s and prevent the warlike Ngonis from
finishing off my tribesmen. They had already killed off most men and taken over
land and women.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My own tribe - the Tumbuka - had arrived in what
is now Malawi at the end of the 1700s. There
were frequent wars and a genocide was instituted by the other newly arrived tribed in Malawi that saw the elimination of the
original inhabitants of the land, the Akafula people.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This answers part of the question
I posed above, if Africa was left alone, tribes like mine would have simply
have been eliminated and enslaved or as the Akafula/Batwas/Twa saw, simply genocided
out of the equation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">After 1840, we know through David
Livingstone’s journals that the whole place was either decimated by slave
raiders, tribal war and general chaos. Bodies were flowing down the Zambezi as Bantu
killed Bantu all along the Zambezi deep into Manyuema or what is now Congo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;">(See: </span></i><span class="f"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #70757a; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;"> 2003
— </span></i></span><em><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">INTO AFRICA</span></span></b></em><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 107%;">: The Epic
Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone. Martin Dugard</span>)</i></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKlUCDmIe6bs6EHokMNkjP1gFsIk19D_Jo4ADCkveRuHPPLqp9G8Sg7EuJ_kDLAmJI_yN0QjcApk_fotoCFtyYxmrQegr5XYENbPQKl8C-ovDHBPJKVj30bRLVhUbC4lRdGD6qqjjh-o/s323/ColonialAfrica.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="276" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKlUCDmIe6bs6EHokMNkjP1gFsIk19D_Jo4ADCkveRuHPPLqp9G8Sg7EuJ_kDLAmJI_yN0QjcApk_fotoCFtyYxmrQegr5XYENbPQKl8C-ovDHBPJKVj30bRLVhUbC4lRdGD6qqjjh-o/w256-h263/ColonialAfrica.png" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the partition - bad? </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">There were wars in Ethiopia and there
was strife everywhere, after all the movement of Africans about the continent
before European contact was all about conquest and fleeing from conquest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The partition did not split
Africa up. It united a broken continent. And with resources fast disappearing
with the explosion of population in the 1800s, the partition of Africa might
have prevented major disaster in Africa.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is not like the partitioned also disturbed a rich Africa either. The population of Africa only started exploding circa 1800 following the introduction of maize by the Portuguese. Maize meant that Bantu Africans did not have to rely on poor grain and starting sustaining more numbers. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Here is where I will insert my
disclaimer. Yes, the borders the Europeans imposed on Africa are arbitrary and
they have resulted in grouping incompatible groups such as the Kikuyu and Luo
under one nation or splitting groups such as the Chewa between three nations (Mozambique,
Zambia and Malawi). <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p>While this has been blamed on some
<a href="https://voxeu.org/article/long-run-effects-scramble-africa">conflicts</a>,
it is not like Africans are not independent and cannot go back to their old ‘borders’
if they want.<o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jbnFgEyeYow/YBy2wd2NJwI/AAAAAAABrvU/oeEhCLZgR_U49HPzsKnPhE4eqJfRC0IhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1121/africa%2B1.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="1085" height="461" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jbnFgEyeYow/YBy2wd2NJwI/AAAAAAABrvU/oeEhCLZgR_U49HPzsKnPhE4eqJfRC0IhQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h461/africa%2B1.png" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oversimplified Map of Ethnic Africa</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I have also deliberately left out
the atrocities and pain inflicted by Europeans on Africans with their colonialism/exploitation
that followed. That is for another day, today I sought to zoom in on the
question of Africa as being more united following the partition and not
divided. <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So when fake Pan-Africanists invoke
the Berlin Conference to try to deflect from the fact that they cannot lift Africa
out of poverty or ignorance, show them this.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-8788059693008609442020-11-20T05:00:00.000+02:002020-11-20T05:00:00.136+02:00Vishuli Mbunthu – Kwini Nayo Ali Napo Pamsundu<p> Kopa yayi, lekezyani mphepo. Vishuli mbunthu. </p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">Vishuli vinamazina ghanandi,
Waswahili wakuviti Mashuzi, waku Speni wakuti
</span><span style="text-align: justify;">pedo</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">waku Russia na ma
bwilibwishi yawo wakuti Perdet, Majapanizi wakuviti onara, ma Harabo wakuti
yatakao, Mazulu yakuti Suza, </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">kweni pali mitundu
yiwiri ya wanthu iyo yili kuvipa vishuli mazina ghakwenerera umo nkhuonera ine:
ma Tchainizi chishuli wakuchiti Piiiiih… wanyakhe ni Mafalansa ayo yakuvichema
lu peeeeeh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b>Mitundu
ya Vishuli<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Chakofya
chomene chishuli nichila chikwiza na seko…iwe ukuti useke, mbe uku josi
tolotolo….ku Mlomo ha ha ha, kumsundu pe pe pe! Mtundu uwu ukuchitikaso pa ku
yethemula or paku khosomola. Aliyese pagulu akuti waka kumlomo mwazi, nakuti
ungakanaso yayi.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Chishuli
chinyankhe ntcha u Ninja…no kupulikika kweni kunkhunkha nga pafwila ntchewi
pamalo.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XHgBBan3jU/X7cwUSRdxXI/AAAAAAABkdo/rdVWUuPonRw5VzsW9FZEXOIAgFb8tYmFACLcBGAsYHQ/s620/fart3-0d0688d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="620" height="254" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XHgBBan3jU/X7cwUSRdxXI/AAAAAAABkdo/rdVWUuPonRw5VzsW9FZEXOIAgFb8tYmFACLcBGAsYHQ/w445-h254/fart3-0d0688d.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Ichi
nkhopa ini ntchishuli chautesi…. Nyengo zinyakhe dazi lose mtown munthumbo nga
ukhumba kunya mavi, kuchimbira kuluta ku Chimbuzi mbwe kusanga kuti ntchishuli.
Betele ichi, kweni pali Chinyakhe chautesi, iwe ukuti ah, ntchishuli waka, uti
pwee, mbwe kamphingiri kadikidiki kafuma kali mpanti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No Mtende munthu uli mu minibasi olo
kuntchito. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Mtundu
unyakhe ukuwa nga bomba, pamsundu nga pakeluka, aliyense mu class kuchita
kuchuluka na ntchewe uwo kubweta. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Chinyakhe
ntchakwaya, pakwamba nga alto, mbwe besi nakumaliro nga mbata za wa mikayele.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Chinyankhe
ntcha wu 007 Cha ma spy: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pagulu munthu ukuthira
da ka 1 percent pera, pala kalije saundi kweniso kalije sungo, mbwe kulekezya
99% yosi.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Chinyakhe
nichila chikwiza na ukali, kwamba kupulika mnthumbo mukubwata, kupulika mphepo
yikhwikha, pala chafuma kuchita kupulika kupepuka.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b>Kwe
ka Vishuli nivichi nakuti tikunyerachi vishuli? <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Vishuli
ni mphepo. Pala tikulya tikumila chakulya kumoza na mphepo, tinamwawi mphepo
izi tikufumizyila ku msundu, ng’ombe zikunyera vishuli ku mlomo. Tinamwawi.
Mphepo zinyake zikupangika mu nthumbo. <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Pala talya chakulya chikugayika mu nthumbo na ma asidi na tuvibungu twa
bactéria. Kukufuma mphepo ngati methane, hydrogen carbon diaoxide, Amonia.
Pakulya tikumila oxygen, Nitrogen ... mphepo izi pala zasazyikana ndizo
zikupanga vishuli vyakununkha. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Pali vyakulya vinyakhe ivyo
vikutemwa kutipasa mphepo izi pala talya: Masumbi, Ntchunga na kwawanyakhe awo
mkaka ukuwakana – mkaka. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Wasayansi wakuti munthu aliyose
pazuwa akunya vishuli vyakukwana 1 litre kuti waka mwa one litre iyi,
vyakunukha vikuwa vichoko.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Tose tikunya<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Wanthu wanyake wali kutolana kwa
vyaka 50 kweni wandampulikepo muoli wawo akunya vishuli, chomene chomene pa
chibwezi, pagulu, kunthito na pagulu vishuli nivyakupokeleleka chara. Kweni ivi
vili nthena chifukwa tawanthu tikujipusika kuti ndise wakupambana na vinyama. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Unenesho
wake ngwakuti tose tina pamsundu. Tose tikunya mavi. Tose tikunya vishuli. Tose
tikuvikelula.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Vishuli
tikamba kuving’ola nikale. Pythagoras yula wakatipa Pythagoras theorem ku
Samuzi akati wati uyo wakutemwa kunya vishuli akufwa lubiro. Iyo akatenge wati
pala imwe mukulya ntchunga imwe, by eating beans, you could fart your soul out
and die.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Benjamin
Franklin, uyo nimunthu wakutumbikika mu mbiri ya Amerika – mpaka mwahunu pano
ali pa Ndalama yaku America- nayo akayoyowapo vya vishuli. Akalemba kalata
kuluta ku wupu wa ma Scientists yaku Europe. Kalatya yakhe akayichema ‘Fart
Proudly’ - ‘Nyani Vishuli Mwakufwasa.’ Mukalata iyi iyo akadandaula kuti
vishuli wanthu wakuvitinkha ndipo akasachizya kuti wanthu wa vyasayansi wasange
munkhwala wakuti wanthu walyenge kumoza na chakulya kuti palawakunya vishuli
viwenge ngati perfume kweninso vyambula kutinkhika. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Mankhwala
agha ghandasangike mpaka mwahuno kweni vikate viwenge vyakusekesha kuti
munyakhe ayasangenge. Mpha kuli ma flavour ya vishuli mmaminibus. Wanthu wa
Ndalama mpha wakunya vishuli vya Vanilla na mafungo yakudula. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Kweni
ine nkhukola mazgo ya mufalansa yunji zina lake Michel De Montaigne. Michel Di
Montaigne wakalemba mu buku lakhe kuti:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our
arses.’ And, lest we forget: ‘Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Michel
wakayowopaso za St. Augustine, mmoza mwa wanthu awo wakambisha ma tchalitchi
pachalo, Augustine akalembapo za munthu yumo uyo akanyanga vishuli apo wakhumbila,
na munyakhe uyo akanyanga vishuli nga lusumu.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Di
Montaigne wakutichisya kuti tileke kopa kunya vishuli, ndise vinyama, tikulya,
tikunya. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Nanga
uli akuyowoya ntheura De Montaigne, ndise wanthu wamahara, kweniso research
yinyakhe yili kusanga kuti mu vishuli mukuwa tuvibungu tula twa bacteria tula. Sono
ni betele kuti pagulu or pafupi navyakulya tinganyanga vishuli bwekabweka chara.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Kweni
pala tanya mwasoka, kopa yayi, yowoyani waka kachizungu kakuti ‘excuse me’ kuti
mugule visa...or pala mungamanya, waphalirani wanyinu awo za De Montaigne. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">Pali
vishuli vinu vyalutilizya unandi lutani ku Chipatala, ingawa colon câncer iyo
yikupangisha vishuli ninandi mwakulutizga. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Waphalirani wa neba winu, neba, uli
na msundu – neba, ukunya vishuli nga ine!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-73214148045773060212020-05-22T14:59:00.003+02:002020-05-22T15:03:23.982+02:00Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) 2020/21 Selection List<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><font size="4"><div>This is the list of men and women (young) who are going to be in the freshman class of 2020/21 at Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST). Download PDF of the list <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y3sfmcji5bfsqop/AAA1Zc4Bw4BffEUQ1dBqMIL4a?dl=0" target="_blank">HERE</a></div></font>Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-72115873240750534232020-05-10T14:37:00.000+02:002020-05-10T14:37:08.463+02:00Malawi is easiest, cheapest place to own a gun - 14 cents and a letter gets you license <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span lang="EN-GB">Over 10,000 <span class="il">guns</span> legally living among Malawians</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB">Hundreds more being smuggled from <span class="il">Mozambique</span></span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB">Fine for possessing illegal gun: $50</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB">Charge for gun license: K100</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="il">Guns</span> governed by old 1965 Act</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB">MYP and YD <span class="il">guns</span> still not properly accounted for</span></li>
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The continuing conflict in <span class="il">Mozambique</span> coupled with a porous, feebly patrolled border and weak policing are the likely reasons why <span class="il">guns</span> and ammunition and gun violence keeps rocking the neighbourhoods of <span class="il">Malawi</span>.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Apart from the more than 10,000 civilians who are legal carriers of <span class="il">guns</span> in <span class="il">Malawi</span> and apart from the locally manufactured muzzleloaders used by poachers, ‘military-type’ <span class="il">guns</span> from <span class="il">Mozambique</span> are proving to be the real danger.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Our statistics show that AK47 and Pistols are popularly used in gun crime. <span class="il">Malawi</span> does not license the possession and use of AK47 assault rifles both by the government or its agencies and the private sector or individuals.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“There is a consistent pattern of confessions from suspects that most of these firearms were smuggled into <span class="il">Malawi</span> through <span class="il">Mozambique</span>,” said Noel Kayira, Senior Assistant Police Commissioner, Deputy Commandant at Zomba Police College and, chair of the National Focal Point (NFP) on Small Arms.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The statistics are chilling; pistols and AK47s were the weapon of choice in the 151 gun crimes recorded from 2009 to 2014.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But Kayira says <span class="il">Malawi</span> does not have that many criminal gangs that use firearms and that it is usually one or two criminal gangs that commit various armed violence across the country over a period of time and once arrested crime drops as was the case in Mid-2005.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Compare with Zambia, with just 14 million people, it recorded 3,168 reported cases of armed robbery in the 5 years between 1998 and 2002 and has 87,000 legal gun owners.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some also fear that the two now-disbanded domestic political militia, the <span class="il">Malawi</span> Young Pioneers (MYP) and the Young Democrats (YD) might be the source of illegal <span class="il">guns</span>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The disarmament of the MYP after the fall of Dr. Hastings Banda’s regime in 1994 is described as chaotic and incomplete), while the YD have never been disarmed and it is not publicly known what has happened to their weapons.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But Police have argued against these sources saying neither militia used AK-47s or Makarov Pistols, leaving <span class="il">Mozambique</span> as the sole supplier of <span class="il">Malawi</span>’s illegal <span class="il">guns</span>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">With a yawning 1500 kilometer border between <span class="il">Malawi</span> and <span class="il">Mozambique</span> and one unhindered by geographic barriers, any gun in <span class="il">Mozambique</span> can easily be in Blantyre in a matter of days.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This could be the supplier that supplied the pistol which a young Rwandan fired at a disco in Lilongwe, or the one found on a Korean in Lilongwe or the one found in the house of the Zingwangwa man that murdered his son and wife before committing suicide or even the one an MRA official in Blantyre used to kill himself. <u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Andrew Charman one of the few researchers on <span class="il">Malawi</span>’s gun issues linked <span class="il">Malawi</span>’s firearms demand in the country to organized crime, including poaching; self-defense; and political intimidation.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The fine for having an illegal weapon is a measly $50, and the fee you pay for owning a gun is only a K100. No deterrent.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">With weak background checks, some of which involve letters from the easily corruptible chiefs and pastors, some people are driven to buy <span class="il">guns</span> from South Africa, smuggle them into <span class="il">Malawi</span> and register them as an afterthought or not register them at all.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For Charman Organized criminal activities are closely associated with military weapons such as the AK-47, whereas demand for self-defense is largely fulfilled with South African commercial weapons.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Another source of the ‘military-type’ firearms used in gun crime is those arms belonging to the MPS and other state armed forces.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The police are on record to denying this saying incident of firearms stolen or rented from state personnel for crime purposes are ‘extremely rare’.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But evidence is available. Mangochi police had to arrest one of their own at the middle of January after he was named as aiding violent robbers terrorizing the area.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the start of the 2016 police recovered almost 300 rounds of ammunition and <span class="il">guns</span> in Blantyre, the scary thing about the bust was that the ammunition is only used in police training pointing to the rented gun theory.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="il">Malawi</span> can partially thank Operation Rachel, a campaign to destroy Mozambican arms caches conducted jointly by the Mozambican and the South African governments, coupled with a civil society disarmament project called Transformação das Armas em Enxadas (Turning Arms into Ploughshares) that saw many firearms taken off people, pushing prices of illegal <span class="il">guns</span> in the region up.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This was seen as true in a 2003 opinion survey in <span class="il">Malawi</span> that saw most respondents considering illicit firearms expensive.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="il">Guns</span> might thus be simply too expensive for most Malawians, some even add that criminal elements have no lucrative targets in <span class="il">Malawi</span> owing to the bad shape of the economy.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Scholarship says <span class="il">Malawi</span>’s lack of gun culture has also been listed as one reason the country avoids gun violence thanks to the fact that <span class="il">Malawi</span> avoided a civil war in the post-independence period unlike other countries.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But this might not be for long, those that did studies on the effect of Operation Rachel warned that the success of the efforts lies in the Mozambican government curbing corruption in the security sector which might not be easy especially when coupled with the fact that conflict levels in <span class="il">Mozambique</span> are currently back to high levels.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Most of the <span class="il">guns</span> from <span class="il">Mozambique</span> are said to come in through Dedza and Ntcheu, for example, since 2000, police in Dedza have recovered at least 4 firearms per year for six years running. Of the recovered <span class="il">guns</span>, there is always an AK-47 in the fray.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Gregory Mthembu-Salter in a 2009 working paper titled Trading Life, Trading Death: The Flow of Small Arms from <span class="il">Mozambique</span> to <span class="il">Malawi</span> warned <span class="il">Malawi</span> to not only strengthen its vigilance against Mozambican <span class="il">guns</span>, but to also watch the internal environment too.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Malawians should remain vigilant about the inflow of illegal firearms from <span class="il">Mozambique</span> and, indeed, all <span class="il">Malawi</span>’s neighbors.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“But they should not blind themselves to domestic firearms proliferation issues regarding either the disbanded political militia or the police and armed forces’ own weapons. Violent crime, like charity, usually begins at home,” warned Mthembu-Salter.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“…there is need for improved co-operation with neighbouring countries in order to address insecurity along the border areas … government should also decentralize and institutionalize the use of the Interpol I- 24/7 communication system at border entry points.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Police need to intensify border patrols to intercept criminals who smuggle <span class="il">guns</span> into <span class="il">Malawi</span>. The government needs to constantly provide scanning equipment at borders to detect the movement of firearms in the country,” said Kayira.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“If ownership of arms are not controlled and regulated, crime increases which threatens investors and the violation of the right to personal security and of property let alone the right to life. That is why it is crucial for governments to regulate firearms,” said Mtambo.<br /><br />NOTE: This is a 2016 production, a lot might have changed...but I did not edit anything to keep authenticity, read it with 2016 in mind. </span></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-49417742322187582182020-05-08T23:38:00.000+02:002020-05-08T23:38:46.995+02:00Here is the Supreme Court Ruling Upholding the Constitutional Court Ruling that Ordered Fresh Elections in Malawi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An election was held in poor Malawi in 2019, Peter Mutharika won by the narrowest margin, the others MCP and UTM challenged the 'win' in court, the Constitutional Court agreed with the 'others' and ordered a fresh election... Peter Mutharika of DPP in cahoots with MEC [strangely] appealed the said court decision at the Supreme Court, the highest court there is in Malawi [in case you didn't catch the 'supreme' reference]. The Supreme Court has just delivered its verdict [on 8th May 2020]... it has agreed with the Constitutional Court and upheld its verdict. This means Malawi will have to hold new elections and go with the 50+1 system. It also means the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) was indeed weighed and found wanting.<br />
<br />Read the full verdict <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ftuhnds4zphnbyk/Malawi%20election%20Judgement.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">here</a>. You will have to download the PDF.<br />
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-59570786610655802052020-04-10T22:49:00.000+02:002020-04-10T23:39:09.558+02:00Chinese Exploiting Malawian Kids in Racist/Humiliating Videos Sold for Thousands in China<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Those kids you see in the wildly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4F99284vKQ">popular video</a> being made
to shout ‘I am a Nigger with Low IQ!’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
some Chinese guy might be from Malawi and it is time we stopped that type of
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That video is just one you heard
of, there are others of Chinese putting black boys sitting their laps
and making them curse in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UVAFo9arw">Mandarin</a>.
There are is another of a Chinese man making fun of the lip-pulling tribal
woman of Ethiopia by trying to kiss them.</div>
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A simple search on the Chinese copy-cat
of Twitter, Weibo, gives thousands of hits of such videos, they have been in
circulation in China for years. I tracked down one such page (<span style="font-family: "ms gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><a href="https://www.weibo.com/u/3977711153?refer_flag=1005055014_"><span lang="EN-US">非洲小花</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "microsoft jhenghei" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei";">妞祝福视频拍摄</span></a></span>) roughly
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Chinese looking to spice up their
birthdays or looking to impress their girlfriends with black skin - a rare,
feared, hated and often misunderstood thing – cough between MWK5000 and MWK50,000 for a customized one.<br />
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Once the money is in, the Chinese
on the ground in Africa invites a group of unsuspecting black people, usually
young men, children, and mothers from rural and semi-rural areas for the shoot.
They are dressed up, sometimes in Chinese attire and made to parrot some phrases in
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customer who posts it on social media for friends to awe and ask how black
monkeys from the Savannah got to sing happy birthday to them by name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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posted and transacted on WeChat, QQ and Weibo, where police come to your door if
you post political opinions authorities don’t like. The fact that these videos
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To convince the communities,
these Chinese men buy snacks and ‘donate’ and pretend to be doing philanthropy.
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This is happening in Zimbabwe,
Zambia and Malawi. The products that were ‘donated’ there and ones that appear
in their online picture catalogues are in line with the products you can find
in the said countries. <o:p></o:p><br />
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According to this highlighted <a href="https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404432385251868740" target="_blank">videographer</a>, these kids and mothers are Malawian and the young men are Zimbabwean and you young women are from Zambia. There is even a service from Egypt and Ukraine.</div>
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In a blog post defending this Blaxploitation,
the vendors claim their ventures have ‘greatly improved the conditions’ of the
places they shoot from and that they donate food and money that is ‘more than
what the parents earn.’ See <a href="https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404432385251868740">here</a>
(link in Chinese).<o:p></o:p><br />
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The page also denies they make
the kids parrot insults and rejected the video of the kids parroting self-insulting
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But look here, folks, just like on
the tobacco estates, if the kids are earning it is child labour, if the kids
are being used to make earnings for someone else, it is child exploitation. So
why the fuck are these fuckers not in some jail? <o:p></o:p></div>
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These people are being left with
kids alone sometimes indoors, do we know if child porn is also being demanded
by some pervs in Asia? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Does it look like a donation to
you if the donor demands you wear some fake silk dress and chant like you are
in a Kungfu movie before you can collect your ‘donation’?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In China there are 1.4 billion
people there, these guys make thousands of videos and that translates to
millions on money, no wonder they are now expanding to the Middle East and
Eastern Europe to get brown and white monkeys to dance for Chinese audiences
too.<o:p></o:p><br />
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This particular page, by his own <a href="https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404486401482686786" target="_blank">admission</a>, has produced over 100,000 videos, you can imagine the amount of money being made. </div>
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If you conclude that this is acceptable,
then cool…if not then the Chinese that are filming these videos around the
Njewa Area in Lilongwe and other areas in Malawi need to be warned off it or maybe brought in for ‘a
talk.’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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In any case, if there is going to
be a donation, let it be a donation, because the videos make a lot of money and
they should not be hidden behind 'charity.' In the caption accompanying the picture below, the vendor said buy his video so his mother can afford some rice.<br />
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The opening up of the country to
China should not include uncultured, racist and exploitative elements like
these.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some that feature in ads are not even 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy and his click in Malawi need to get got</td></tr>
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Just look at the video below of a Chinese boomer putting a kid on his lap and making him say the worst curse words you can find in the Chinese dictionary.<br />
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I hope the media, the Chinese and Malawian authority and anyone who can read will make sure not another video like that is made again from Malawi or Zambia or Zimbabwe. The people don't know what they are talking about and the fact that some videos are being made that are humiliating and criminal means the whole enterprise is suspect. </div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-82780855944389369782020-03-23T21:24:00.001+02:002020-03-23T21:24:55.493+02:00Best Coronavirus Poopchallenge Prank Compilation<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parents turn on their kids for entertainment while trapped and bored at home because of the 2020 Covid19 Lockdown. Here is a selection of some of the best of the wildly popular but equally traumatizing </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23poopchallenge" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#poopchallenge</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5tsIw06Wy1A?clip=&clipt=EAAYAA%3D%3D" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
<br />Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-66849821557638436662020-03-18T17:05:00.000+02:002020-03-18T17:24:12.684+02:00Mbolo Yabwinobwinoyo Mukuyibudulilanji?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Musatengeke ndi a ma bungwe onyenga, mdulidwe utha kuonongerani mbolo ndi kuthekera kwanu pogonana
ndi okondedwa anu, utha kukupangitsani kutenga HIV ndi zina zambiri. Tiyeni
tiganize limodzi.</div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Nkhani iyi ndi nkhani yovuta, nkhani ya
mdulidweyi akuyikamba ndikuyipititsa patsogolo ndi mabungwe amphamvu monga WHO
(UNAIDS) komanso a boma la America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Mu 2007 bungwe la WHO linagwrizana zomema mayiko
onse omwe ali ndi anthu ambiri <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>omwe ali
ndi HIV komanso omwe amuna ambiri sanadulidwe kuti atero. Mwa Amalawi 10 ali
onse awiri okha anali odulitsa (80%) mu 2011. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156521">Onani
apa</a> zankhaniyi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Koma inu mwina nkufunsa kodi HIV ndi Mdulidwe
zikugwirizana pati? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Mu 2007 a WHO ndi UNAIDS anayamba kuuza
madotolo kuti mdulidwe uphatikizidwepo pa ndondomeko zogonjestera matenda a
HIV. Anayesa izi ku malo atatu: Kisumu, Kenya; Rakai, Uganda ndi ku Orange
Farm, South Africa. Mwa omwe anayesedwa anapeza kuti mdulidwe umachepetsa tsoka
lotenga HIV ndi thekha (60%).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Atapitakonso ku Uganda kuja mwapompano anakapeza
kuti mdulidwe unachepetsa kutenga HIV ndi 73%. Onani <a href="https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/fact_sheet/en/">apa</a>. Anthu ena amati kafukufukuyu anali wofooka/<a href="https://circumcision.org/circumcision-and-hiv-harm-outweighs-benefit/" target="_blank">wosadalilika</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Azasayansi mkafukufuku wawo akuti anapeza kuti mwa
anthu 10 ali onse, 7 kapena 8 amatenga HIV pogonana. Akuti kuchikopa cha mbolo
chakusogolo chija kuli tithu tina take (CD4 ndi CCR5) tomwe HIV imakakamirako
ikakhuzana nato. Tinthuti timapezekanso mkati mwa ntumbo kwa omwe mumagona ndi
amuna anzanuni. </span>(Langerhans' cells, and dendritic cells—in the genital
and rectal mucosa.) <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127372/">Werengani apa</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nkhani yabwinotu iyi, kukhala ngati.
Koma ndiye kunaponyedwa zindalama: $1.5 billion, mukuziwa kuti ndindalama
zingati zimenezo? Ndi 1,102,500,000,000.00 Malawian Kwacha! <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Yonseyo kuti zikopa za mbolo za anthu a kumwera
kwa Africa zidulidwe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Amafuna kudula mbolo 21 million ndipo akuti
kutere kupangitsa US$16.5 billion izapulumutsidwa kamba koti mmalo mopereka mwankwala
ndi chithandizo kwa anthu odwala Edzi kuzachepetsedwa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-programming/prevention/voluntary-medical-male-circumcision">Onani
apa</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kufika mu Chaka cha 2017 anali atadula mbolo 18
million, ndikhulupilira pano zinafika 21 million ankayifunayo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ndatitu kunakhuthulidwa zimakobiri, kuzipatala,
kuma nyuzi komanso kuma bungwe mu 2013 nane ndinayankhulapo <a href="http://mutafire.blogspot.com/2013/06/mdulidwe-ungachepetse-tsoka-lotenga-hiv.html">za
nkhani iyi</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Koma kodi izizi
nzofunika? Kodi tinaganiza mokuya za nkhani ya mdulidweyi?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ine maganizo anga ngosiyaniranako pang’ono ndi
a madolowa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Mutati mwalowa mchipinda, mchipinda mmenemo nkukhala
azimayi abwino, okongola 10...azimayiwo ndikunena kuti mwa anthu tenife 6
tilibe HIV folo ali nayo, sankhani mmodzi mwa ife mugone naye puleni. Olo atati
munali ndi njala ya zaka 7, mbolo yanuyo singadzuke nkomwe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Umutu ndi mmene a UNAIDS ndi WHO
akuganiziratu.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chachiwiri mayiko ena monga Ethiopia
kapena Egypt amadula ka nyemba ka ku nyini kwa azimayi, cholinga kuti ati
azimayi asamve kukoma pogonana komanso asaganize za kugonana… ma report ena
amanena kuti mwa azimayi 10 alione aku Egypt, 8 alibe kanyemba kaja, makolo awo
anadula. Nkani yoopsa kwabasi, a UN ndi mabungwe ali pakalikiliki kuthetsa
mchitidwewu, ku mangalande makolo ena anamangidwapo ata dula nyemba za ana awo
aakazi. Akuti kutero nkuphwanya ufulu wa azimayi, komanso kuvulaza ana, komanso
ana osakwana zaka 18 amakhala asanakhwime maganizo mokwanila kuti avomeleze
izizi. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ku South Africa, Children’s Act
yawo ya 2005 imaletsa kudula mbolo za ana osakwana zaka 16 kupatula asilamu
kapena za ku mtundu. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nanga ana athu akudulidwa mbolo
kunowa akudziwa chomwa akuchita? Ndikukhala ku Kawale ndimakhala ndi ma cousin
anga omwe tsiku lina anabwera kunyumba atadulidwa. <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kodi dziko lino li ndi malamulo? Zikusiyana pati
kudula mbolo za amuna ndi kudula nyemba za atsikana?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Nkani yayikulu yina ndi kupanda umboni kwa
anzathu amene amapanga zimeneziwa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Atafunsa anthu ku zambia, 94% anati akufuna adulitse
kuti asatenge matenda opatsilana pogonana. Ku Nyanza Province, Kenya, 55% <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ya amuna amati iwo amakhulupirira kuti akazi
amakonda kuchindidwa ndi amuna odulidwa. Akazi aku Nyanzako, ena oti
sanachindanepo ndi mwamuna odulidwa amakhulupilira kuti mamuna odulidwa amachinda
ngati porn star.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kumalawi kuno mu kafukufuku wawo a Ngalande ndi
anzawo nawo anapeza kuti amauna amafuna mdulidwe chifukwa amafuna kukhala ma Tchale
pogonana komanso chifukwa amafuna ataziteteza kumatenda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Pankhani iyi tichedwepo, mu kafuku wa A Munthali
ndi azungu ena awari omwe adapanga ku Zomba adapeza kuti: Anthu omwe adalandira
uthenga wa kuopsa kwa HIV anachepetsa uhule, izi sizinatengele kuti ndiodulidwa
kapena ayi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Komano amuna ambiri (50%) anauza a Munthali ndi
anzawo kuti anthu odulidwa sangapereke matenda kwa azimayi. Azimayi (80%) nawonso
anali ndi zikhulupiliro za bozdzazi zoti mwamuna wodulidwa sangapereke HIV. </span><a href="https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/circumcision-information-and-hiv-prevention-malawi">Werengani
apa</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mwina simunamve bwinobwinotu
anthuwa akadulidwa akumaganiza kuti sangatenge ndikupereka <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HIV. Simukutha kuoona kuti anthu odulidwa
akuwaza ma puleni ambiri kunjaku?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chinanso ndi ichi: Anthu ambiri
amene akutenga ndikupereka HIV ku Malawi siakumidzi, si osaphunzira…komanso si
ana…HIV yambiri yili mwa anthu amene adapitilira ndi ma phunziro. Ilinso
kwambiri pakati pa anthu okwatira. <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/HF34/HF34.pdf">Onani apa</a></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">HIV ilinso kwambiri mwa anthu amene ali ndi
ndalama. Kwa ine Ndalama ndi yimene ikupangitsa anthu ambiri kuti atenge
matendawa chifukwa mahule ndi atsikana amakhala ophweka ndi ndalama mmene
tidziwira Malawi muja. (Kumbukirani: mukakumana ndi mahule awiri ku Malawi, mmodzi
wawo ali ndi HIV).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Chodabwitsanso nchoti anthu amene miyambo yawo
yimapanga kale mdulidwe ndiamenenso alinso ndi HIV yambiri: kum’mwera kwa
Malawi cha ku Zomba ndi Mangochi kusiyana ndi anthu omwe sayelekedza nkomwe
kudula mbolo zawo monga aku Chitipa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Izi
zikukuuzani chani?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kupatula kuziletsa palibe chimateteza munthu ku
HIV kuposa kondomu <a href="https://www.getthefacts.health.wa.gov.au/faqs/do-condoms-protect-against-all-stis">(98%).</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mmalo momema anthu kuti agwiritse
ntchito ma kondomu nthawi zonwe, mmalo moyika ndalama zambiri mma kondomu nchifukwa
chani ma billion akupita ku mdulidwe? Mchaka cha 2017, Malawi imasoweka makondomu
</span><a href="https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/malawi"><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">19 million</span></a><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">. </span>Nchifukwa chani amabungwe
ali kalikiliki ndi mdulidwe pomwe njira yabwino koposa akuyinyala?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Izi ndizimene Van Howe ndi Mzake
anapeza mukafukufuku wawo, iwo anapeza kuti mdulidwe utha kupititsa pastogolo HIV
kwathu kuno. Iwo anati mdulidwe ukutenga ndalama zofunikira pomwe zipatso zake
nzochepa. <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Van Howe anati kupanga
mdulidwe umodzi umatenga ndalama zokwana zogulira ma condom 3000. Werengani <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345479/">apa</a> ndi penanso
<a href="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-science-kills-or-how-to-spread-aids/">apa</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Chinanso ndi ichi, padziko lonse lapansi anthu
amene akutenga HIV pachaka <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/american-leadership-brink-controlling-aids/">akucheperachepera</a>,
inde ngakhale kumalawi kuno anthu pafupifupi 50 thousand amatenga matendawa pachaka,
komabe, zinthu zikusintha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbnrEcTRGIw/XnI1N54GD2I/AAAAAAABfe0/Dx_egaCzd2EomUPgpSO_cFOqQuAYGVW8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HIV-antiretro_chart_v3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbnrEcTRGIw/XnI1N54GD2I/AAAAAAABfe0/Dx_egaCzd2EomUPgpSO_cFOqQuAYGVW8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HIV-antiretro_chart_v3.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Program ya dziko la américa ya Pepfar mwina
pano yadya 100 billion dollars, koma nanga nchifukwa chani anthu sakusintha
machitidwe? Mwina <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2010/01/13/7214/how-ideology-trumped-science/">apa</a>
mumvapo zifukwa koma kwa ine nkhani ndi ija ya ndalama. Kwa anthu osaukafe tikapeza
ndalama timafuna tipange zinthu zimene sitinkapanga tili osauka: Kunyenga akazi
ambiri/ okongola/odula. Komanso ma program a Pepfar ndi a tchalichi amangolimbikitsa
kupewa komanso safikira ma hule ndi ma geyi zonsezi zikupangitsa kupita
patsogolo HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ena nkumati ati anthu odulidwa amakhala
aukhondo, ndikukumbukira nthawi imeneyo a Zodiak atalandila zimpukutu za
ndalama ankayikoka nkhani iyiyi, kodi onunkha mkamwa timawadula milomo? Onunkha
kunkhwapa adulidwe manja? Nanga tikuduliranji chikopa cha mbolo ponamizila
ukhondo?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Umaoneka dolo ukamapanga mdulidwe, koma amuna
ambiri akudandaula ndipo ena akuvutika/ kuononga ndalama zankhaninkhani <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-men-who-want-their-foreskin-back">kubwezeretsa
kachikopa ka ku tsogolo kwamboloko</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Mukadulidwa, kutsogolo kwambolo kumauma,
kumachita kuda bii, anthu amati amuna odulidwa amatha kuchinda chifukwa choti
amatenga nthawi asanawazire kamba koti mbolo yawo imafunika kuthentha kwambiri
kuti imve kukoma. Koma nanga muzapanga izi mpaka liti? Nkana anthu awawa
akumawaza ma plain chifukwa mbolo yoguga mkondomu nde mbola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kachikopako kamatetedza mbolo, madala.
Mukamayenda malaya amayikwecha mbolo. Mukadula mboloyo muzabunyula bwanji poti
pobunyula timasuntha kachikopako? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uMRIbF-iaPY/XnIzgi7K2mI/AAAAAAABfeA/lXkCMNOUEtMtVEnoprvfKI5nQD7VDP4cACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/how-and-why-to-regrow-your-foreskin-1413254603443.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="700" height="179" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uMRIbF-iaPY/XnIzgi7K2mI/AAAAAAABfeA/lXkCMNOUEtMtVEnoprvfKI5nQD7VDP4cACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/how-and-why-to-regrow-your-foreskin-1413254603443.webp" width="320" /></a><span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Komanso musayiwale kuti ku kachikopako kuli ma <a href="https://www.vice.com/sv/article/8g7b3g/how-and-why-to-regrow-your-foreskin">eliyolo</a>
(nerve-endings) migolomigolo amene amathandiza kuti tiyimve kukoma gemu. Kudula
kachikopako zili ngati kumudula kongo mzimayi – mwamupha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Anthu ena akadulidwa amakanika kuyidzutsa
mbolo, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307">ena amadzipha</a>,
ana ena <a href="http://www.cirp.org/library/death/">amafa</a>, ena <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/06/scarred-for-life/227429/">amapunduka</a>,
komanso ena moyo wawo onse <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201501/circumcision-s-psychological-damage">umaonongeka</a>,
mutha kukhala inu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Yang’anani kuno madala, ngati mumatha
kuwerenga, ngati munamaliza form folo, ngati muli shasha, ngati muli ndi phoni
ya tachi, kodi mpakana mukufunika azungu apereke ma billion nkukukudulani mbolo
chifukwa choti inuyo panokha simumatha kugwiritsa ntchito kondomu?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mwaonatu? Akukutengani ngati okanika, opanda
nzeru, akuti inuyo mumakonda puleni ndipo kuti mwina akutetezeni mwina akuduleni
kakutsogoloko. Zoona madala?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Kodi momwe ku Russia HIV ikukwereramo a UN apita
kukawadula mbolo kumenekonso kapena izizi nza anthu osauka, akuda,
osaphunzirafe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ku America anthu ambiri anadulidwa (80%?) ndi chikhalidwe chawo, mdulidwe kwa iwo uli ngati hamala, akufuna msomali. Msomali anaupeza kuno, anabwera akuziwa kuti akufuna chani, sanafunse munthu anangoyamba zawozo. Inu werengani<a href="https://circumcision.org/circumcision-and-hiv-harm-outweighs-benefit/" target="_blank"> apa</a> kuti muone mabodza aanthuwa.</span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ngati mumatha kuwerenga, simufunika kudula
mbolo yabwinobwinoyo, pezani kondomu musanayiviyike, kayedzetseni ndi okondedwa
anu ngati inuyo puleni mwayifunisisa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Tikufalitsa matenda ndife anthu ophunzirafe. </span>Okwatiwafe.
Andalamafe. <span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Anthu okhala ndi
ma foni a intanetife. Ngati akufuna kuthetsa HIV, ayambe mdulidwe wa anthufe,
koma ine maganizo anga ndiakuti, anthufe timadziwa kale zomwe tingachite kuti
tithetse HIV, tisapangitse ana ndi anthu akumidzi kupundulidwa kumoyo ponamizila
HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Sitikukana, anthu ena odulidwa amatha <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-circumcision-helps-prevent-hiv-infection/">kusatenga</a>
HIV, koma kupanga mdulidwe ku mayiko oti HIV ili paliponse, komwenso anthu
ngosauka ndiponso osaphunzira kukungolimbikitsa anthu kunyenga ma puleni.
Tiyeni tipange zama uthenga ndi makondomu, ndalama musadyere pamutu pa anthu
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-78345337518601121282020-03-16T09:38:00.000+02:002020-03-16T09:38:15.127+02:00The US Once Made a 'Disease' for Africa - Lumumba Case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Everyone wanted to kill Patrice
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The Belgians wanted to divide the
Congo and hold on to the resource-rich Katanga region, Lumumba lay in their way.
When he refused their offer to let Belgian troops help out with security, they
got bitter and unilaterally flew in troops and took control of the key points of
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In Katanga they installed Moise
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The US said Congo, a source of
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‘At a meeting of the US National
Security Council in Washington on 22 July, presided over by President
Eisenhower, the Central Intelligence Agency chief, Allen Dulles, described
Lumumba as ‘a Castro or worse’, adding: ‘It is safe to go on the assumption
that Lumumba has been bought by the Communists.’ (Meredith, 2011)<o:p></o:p></div>
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President Eisenhower, when told
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The head of the CIA, Allen
Dulles, sent a telegram to Lawrence <b>Devlin</b>, the CIA station chief in
Léopoldville, saying: ‘In high quarters here it is the clear-cut conclusion
that if [Lumumba] continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will be
at best chaos and at worst pave the way to Communist takeover of the Congo with
disastrous consequences for the prestige of the UN and for the interests of the
free world generally. Consequently, we concluded that his removal must be an
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‘The CIA, meanwhile, fearing that
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meeting of the National Security Council on 21 September, chaired by President
Eisenhower, CIA chief Allen Dulles stressed that ‘Lumumba . . . remained a
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<b>'A senior CIA scientist, Dr
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designed ‘to produce a disease indigenous to that area of Africa and that could
be fatal’. Gottlieb sent the kit by diplomatic pouch to Léopoldville, then
traveled there himself on 27 September to instruct Larry Devlin on how to use
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had to be put in Lumumba’s food or on his toothbrush. But the poison reached
its expiry date before Devlin had worked out a scheme to infiltrate Lumumba’s
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‘The Belgians were also working
on assassination schemes. In a telegram to Belgian officials in Elisabethville on
6 October, the Minister of African Affairs, Count Harold d’Aspremont Lynden,
the chief architect of Katanga’s secession, summed up Belgian intentions: ‘The
main aim to pursue in the interests of the Congo, Katanga and Belgium, is
clearly Lumumba’s <i>élimination definitive</i>.’ (Meredith 2011) <o:p></o:p></div>
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mimic local diseases, </b>and can one be forgiven if they said they can also create diseases that can mimic diseases or poisons? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I were Alex Jones, I would also wonder why
HIV mysteriously appeared in Congo a region where Leopold <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/13/features11.g22" target="_blank">killed 10 million,</a>
and 10 million more have died there <a href="https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-million-dead-in-congos-war/" target="_blank">since 1998</a>…everyone wants the Congo to be emptied.
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Quotes from the<a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Fate-of-Africa-Audiobook/B00IRG9ERO?ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&mkwid=DSAINTTitle_dc&pcrid=239333741494&pmt=b&pkw=&source_code=GO1GBSH07271690CB&cvosrc=ppc%20dynamic%20search.google.634950925&cvo_crid=239333741494&cvo_pid=33581432409&gclid=Cj0KCQjwx7zzBRCcARIsABPRscNCVIoz8wyCCkOeOXrFXIzTBAjHqjaY6UHs8oA2RCW1HhgrQi9vyIkaAqpWEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank"> book</a>: <b>The
State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence</b> by Martin
Meredith (Originally published 2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tikumanya wanyithu wa Synod wakumchindika
chomene Dr. David Livingstone, tose tikumanya ndiyo wakadangilira kufika na
uthenga wa yesu, ndiyoso wakajula nthowa kuti ma mission na madoda nga Dr.
Robert Laws, Robert Moffat na ma
missionale ghanandi yize nakuzakatipa masambiro, ukhristu, nakutipoka ku
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Kweni kasi mukumanya kuti
Livingstone wakawa mtesi, mlowevu na mlebi? Mukumanya kuti wakawa mgundizi,
mtombi, muswa bumbu wakufikapo? Mukumanya kuti wakababa wana na wamwali
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Pakwamba wakapukwa kukaona waka
mkati mwa Africa, kweni wati waona kamwana ka vyaka 14 kakugulishika pa mtenga
wa futi yimoza, Livingstone wakakhumba kumalisha malonda wa bazga. Kuti wachite
ichi, wakaganiza zakuti waone pala ma sitima ghangenda mu msinje wa Zambezi kufuma
ku Mozambiki kukafika ku Congo. Iyo wakati pala ma Steamer ghangenda, ndekuti
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Wakenda kufuma ku Tete ku
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Ndalama za ulendo wake munthu uyu
wakamupanga mba Boma, Mmalo mwakuti wayowoye kuti msinje wa Zambezi ungendeka
chara, iyo wakalemba kalata kuti undendeka mchifuku. Munthu uyu ipo wakawa mu
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Wati watondeka kupanikigza kuti
ma sitima <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yangakafika ku Zaire kufuma ku
Mozambique, Livingstone wakasintha vyakuchita…sono wakati wakakhumba kukasanga
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mu ma dayale. Pakwamba wakazizikikanga na wafipa awo wakawaonanga wakugundana
mu ma thondo pakuti manyumba yawo kale yakawa yachoko, tuvitembevitembe waka nthena.
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Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone</i>, Martin Dugard, wakalembapo vya ulowevu
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women, whom he observed daily in the village marketplace. That didn’t
necessarily mean, however, Livingstone was chaste. Though a man of God, he was
not without weakness. The missionary who arrived in Africa as a teetotal virgin
had become fond of beer and champagne, and often travelled with a small bottle
of brandy when he could procure it. Livingstone was also fond of women — and
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘It was only natural in a land where the
intense heat made nudity preferable to being fully clothed, where sex often
took place in the outdoors because the communal family hut was too small for
intimacy, where the muffled sounds of furtive lovemaking could be heard at
night, and where Livingstone occasionally stumbled upon Africans in the act of
intercourse. It was also not surprising that a widower enduring long absences
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Dugard wakatiphalilaso za umo Livingstone
mu dayale lakhe wakaghanaghanilanga chomene chomene zakukhuza fumukazi yinji
yakuchemeka Manenko. Yikamutemwa Livingstone, kweniso mumuzi wawo wukawa
mudauko wawo kutemwa kugundana na walendo. Pala walendo kwawafipira wakawapanga
wamwali na pakugona, kweniso fumukazi iyo pala yati zakuno, no kukana yayi kopa
kutimbika, kuchimbigzika na kukomeka. Kale pala kwafipa nkhalamu zikakalipanga,
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were actually evident in his journals long before Mary died. His entry of 8
January 1854, describing a fiery African princess named Manenko, was a
commentary on the brash sexuality he encountered in his travels. Livingstone
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‘This was not from want of
clothing, for, being a chief, she might have been as well clad as her subjects,
but from her peculiar style of elegance of dress. In the course of a quarrel
with her entourage she advanced and receded in true oratorical style … and, as
usual in more civilized feminine lectures, she leaned over the objects of her
ire, and screamed forth all their faults and failings since they were born, and
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man’, and he complained that she left him with ‘no power’. It was common for
royal women like Manenko, if they so desired, to share the bed of passing
travellers. Hypothetically, if Livingstone was so ordered, he had no choice but
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Mu dayale yakhe munthu uyu
wakalembangamo cha ivi...kweni makalata ayo wakalembanga kwa madoda ghanyakhi
ndiyo yakutiphalira kuti munthu uyu wakawa wa mphulupulu mukabunthu. Mukalata
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‘Sibweni ini ndini ndalewa
wanakazi kuno, ndalewa wanakazi 300 nkhuchita kupulika kunowa ngati Solomoni wa
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Throughout his years in Africa, Livingstone’s
journal admissions about sex were limited to vivid appreciations of the
beautiful women he saw in his travels. But in a candid personal letter to G. E.
Seward, the British Consul whom Livingstone befriended during his time on
Zanzibar in 1866, the explorer revealed a telling private detail.</div>
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‘In the course of sharing
insights about expedition supplies and the vagaries of life in Africa,
Livingstone displayed uncharacteristic machismo by confiding in Seward that
he’d had so many African women he felt like a famously prolific Biblical lover.
‘I had like Solomon three hundred wives princess (but don’t tell Mrs Seward),’
Livingstone confessed to his fellow Scot.’</div>
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Asi mwaona? Mulisha uyu wakawa na
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Dazi linyakhi (18 March 1868) wakalemba
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‘A VERY BEAUTIFUL young woman
came to look at us, perfect in every way, and nearly naked but unconscious of
indecency — a very Venus in black,’ </div>
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Namachero yakhe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(19 March 1868) wakalemba kuti:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Grant, Lord, grace to love Thee more, and
serve Thee better.’ </div>
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Asi mwaona kuti wakung’namula
kuti: nigowokelani a Chiuta chifukwa mayilo nkhapwakasha buzi? Pa 19 March
pakawa pa birthday yakhi munthu uyu… wakayipulika kunowa.</div>
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Pa wanakazi 300 mpaka pawi mwana,
wakawa kale na wana sikisi pa mpisu muori wakhe, so tikumanya kuti wakawa
chumba yayi.</div>
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Wati wafika pamalo ghanyakhe,
Livingstone, Chuma na Susi wakasangika kuti wamba kwenda na ka msepuka: ka
swesi, sisi lake nga la wanthu wafipa chara. Mwana uyu wakawa wa njani?</div>
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Mweneko Livingstone wandalembepo
za msepuka uyu, kweni wantchito wose awo wakamuperekezga ku Chitambo wakate ndi
mwana wa bwana. Kakawa kaluwaliluwali nako, apo wawiske wakaluwalanga kuti
wakhala pachoko kufwa nako wakachita kunyamulanga pa machira.</div>
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Pulikani Dugard: </div>
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‘…Livingstone’s infidelity was a
breach of character. And there was one manifestation of this that remained
fairly well concealed during Livingstone’s lifetime. It may have occurred in
the fiery Princess Manenko’s village or in some other village during his many
years in Africa, but Livingstone, it was later documented, fathered at least
one African child.</div>
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‘That son was the teenage boy who
had joined the caravan some time after Tabora. ‘He also had with him his son.
He was a half-caste. The people said it was Bwana’s son,’ Chitambo’s nephew
later swore in a deposition, speaking of the day Livingstone entered his
village. </div>
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‘Bwana’ was a term of respect.
‘The people said it was Bwana’s son. He was respected by the others as the son
of a chief. I did not see the mother or any other woman with the Bwana’s
people.’ Chitambo wasn’t the only villager who would swear to a subsequent
generation of British travelers about Livingstone’s son.</div>
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Another African, Mumana,
remembered that ‘the Bwana had one son with him … his skin was quite white like
a European child and his hair was fair’.’</div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Mwajipulikira mwekha. </span>Pala mukhumba
kumanya vinandi vya mwanangwa uyu wonerani documentary yakuchemeka: The Last
Explorers: Livingstone (BBC), <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2199063/">The
Last Explorers S1E1</a> kweninso chomene chomene werengani buku la Martin
Dugard – <i>Into Arica: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone</i> (2004)</div>
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Nikhwasyani pa Twitter: @mutafire
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-8293973399477390492020-03-10T20:34:00.003+02:002020-03-10T21:00:10.378+02:00We will kill HRDC Leaders – Blantyre Vendors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04TR6XxzLtM/XmfjRVQGXnI/AAAAAAABdyU/yTZQKPZWWw8hh1L0OruQS3uLaRSW4llqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HRD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="510" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04TR6XxzLtM/XmfjRVQGXnI/AAAAAAABdyU/yTZQKPZWWw8hh1L0OruQS3uLaRSW4llqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s200/HRD.jpg" width="161" /></a>Police will now have to prepare fresh arrest warrants for
the leaders of Blantyre vendors: They just formally announced that they plan to
murder <a href="https://malawi24.com/2020/03/08/hrdcs-sembereka-trapence-arrested/">the
arrested HRDC</a> leaders if police ‘wantonly release them.’</div>
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The sturdy vice secretary of the so-called Blantyre City
Vendors Association sure had his notes written down and he looked into the
camera with full conviction while flanked by a crowd of his peers who broke into
cheers, to punctuate his speech.<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘…we as vendors are celebrating and happy that our police
have arrested for us the people that are tormenting us vendors and our businesses…,’
said the cleanly shaven man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The vendors probably had an important message: HRDC frequent
demonstrations are impacting their sales. They however then messed up a good brew
by adding in murder plans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In announcing that he and his friends intended to murder Mtambo
and click, he trespassed into illegal territory. <o:p></o:p><br />
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He threatened the right to life (one of the most respected
right in the world), he also is guilty of conspiring to commit a felony, he is
guilty of issuing threats to the police (impeding the duties of public officers)
and my favourite one: guilty of crimes against democracy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As usual, in a country of laws, if vendors have any issues
against HRDC, they can always sue or get an injunction or even petition HRDC
with a cease and desist letter. Violence or threats of violence are not part of democracy nor a country of laws. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We know that the vendors are in cahoots with the ruling party
and now that they have committed crimes similar to those HRDC leaders
committed, what will the police do? The answer should be: arrest them, of course, but will
they? <o:p></o:p><br />
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Tionenge. Titipulikenge.</div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-38614741765794819772020-03-09T07:54:00.002+02:002020-03-09T08:07:12.503+02:00On HRDC Arrests: Government has a Strong Case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Peter Mutharika is risking a lot
by calling for and driving<a href="https://twitter.com/NationOnlineMw/status/1236706577752752129" target="_blank"> the arrest of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC)activists</a>. Even well-established totalitarian regimes like Russia think twice
before moving in that direction, they have HUMAN RIGHTS in their
title, for Christ's sake! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Could there be another angle to
this story, though? Could there be an angle that might not be popular or moral…but
one that needs to be considered nonetheless?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there is. I hate DPP and Ansah too,
but hear me out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mtambo and Trapence of HRDC</td></tr>
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HRDC went and <a href="https://mwnation.com/protesters-seal-mec/">sealed MEC offices</a> across the
country, the idea was to force MEC don Jane Ansah and her embattled and discredited
commissioners out of office. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The act was not sanctioned by
parliament, nor the court making it illegal. Even the Malawi Law Society <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MalawiFreedomNetwork/posts/mls-condemns-hrdc-on-mec-closuremalawi-law-society-mls-has-condemned-hrdc-for-se/2729042740547063/">condemned
the act</a> albeit late and in very diplomatic language. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As if that was not enough, HRDC
announced that they were now going to <a href="https://mwnation.com/hrdc-to-seal-state-houses/">seal the State House</a>,
the very residence of the president.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The keyword here is ‘seal.’ Here
is what the <a href="https://malawilii.org/system/files/consolidatedlegislation/701/penal_code_pdf_14611.pdf">Penal
Code</a> says about these ‘sealing’ acts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>CHAPTER XIII Miscellaneous
Offences Against Public Authority <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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124. Soliciting, etc., to break
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125. Soliciting public officers,
etc., to fail to carry out their duties<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>CHAPTER XXV Offences Against
Liberty <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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266. Punishment for wrongful
confinement <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CHAPTER XXIX Burglary, Housebreaking and
Similar Offences <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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308. Definitions <o:p></o:p></div>
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309. Housebreaking and burglary <o:p></o:p></div>
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310. Entering dwelling-house with
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311. Breaking into building and
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312. Breaking into building with
intent to commit a felony <o:p></o:p></div>
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313. Persons found armed, etc.,
with intent to commit felony <o:p></o:p></div>
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314. Criminal trespass <o:p></o:p></div>
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315. Forfeiture<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>CHAPTER VII Offences Against
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38. Treason<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b> Analysis<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If the state prosecutors decide
to get tough on the HRDC the arrested might be in for some very serious legal
trouble. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unconstitutional: HRDC sealing MEC offices</td></tr>
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One would say, but they are Human
Rights Defenders?! And they would be right but another thing needs to be stressed:
Malawi is a country of laws. Nobody is above the law. It is why Peter Mutharika
cannot stop HRDC demonstrations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This time, however, HRDC forgot to
stay within their legal bounds and took the law in their own hands, and thus
soared just above the law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They always say one’s rights to
swing a blow ends where another’s nose begins. If the HRDC had said it wanted to go
demonstrate by camping or being outside the State House it would be very legal.
Threatening to seal up the place is not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Holding a vigil at MEC would not
be illegal, sealing MEC gates is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a democracy, there are established
institutions. We elect our MPS to make law and Courts are there to interpret
laws. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If MEC is compromised (it is),
one goes to court to seek redress (as UTM and MCP did) and the court can issue
its interpretation (It said we will have a rerun and asked parliament to enable
it). If the process is still not enough, and there are still gaps, the court is
still there to hear those grievances and parliament is there to make new laws
to deal with it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The law doesn’t leave any gaps
for mobs to sweep in. Mobs can, however, sweep in when those in offices also
cross the line of the law and disregard the courts’ stipulations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So far, the courts have not said lock-up Mutharika or Ansah. The law allows them to stay in office and if is
assenting to bills, the law also empowers Mutharika with veto powers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead of using parliament and
courts to fill constitutional and democratic gaps, HRDC sought to do it using the
mob. That might be moral or popular but it is illegal and bad democracy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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HRDC is not only guilty in
criminal terms to me, but also guilty of crimes against democracy. There is a
big difference between demonstrating/activism and crime. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I know that DPP and UDF are outnumbered by MCP and UTM and the fact that DPP continues to abuse government with their corruption and nepotism means the majority of constituents can only watch in anger because of the flawed first-past-the-post style elections system. </div>
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I write this because I know that
the media in Malawi will not write this. They are caught in the spiral of
silence. The other human rights defenders won’t raise these issues either
because they are also caught in a groupthink environment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-65155536857830575592020-03-03T07:10:00.000+02:002020-03-03T07:10:46.674+02:00Is China Using Blacks to Distract Population from Coronavirus, Economic Woes?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hundreds of millions of Chinese are
still in virtual coronavirus quarantine and yet to report for work in the Chinese
New Year, millions of firms are facing <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51609260">bankruptcy</a> and the
country’s factory activity shrank at a record rate in <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/29/china-pmi-factory-activity-shrank-at-fastest-rate-on-record-in-february.html">February</a>.
With such gloomy circumstances and so much not to like it seems there is
something most Chinese can all at least agree on: they really hate black people.</div>
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Last week, China, which is one of
the hardest places on earth <a href="https://haskewlaw.com/the-top-ten-toughest-immigration-laws-world-wide/">to
emigrate</a> to (only had less than 1500 naturalized citizens in 2010) suddenly
announced that it was seeking opinions on a draft to make it easier for
foreigners to gain permanent residence in <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E5%A4%96%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%B8%E4%B9%85%E5%B1%85%E7%95%99%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E6%9D%A1%E4%BE%8B%23">China</a>.
Bad move.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The backlash to the announcement was
instant and sustained, it equals or surpasses the unprecedented backlash that
followed the death of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/02/07/coronavirus-doctor-li-wenliang-death-china-censors-anger-speech/4688827002/">the
whistle-blower</a> doctor from Wuhan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
only difference was unlike the backlash on the death of Li Wenliang being
censored, the current one is being left alone if not fanned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Multiple hashtags of the issue
started trending on Weibo a Chinese copy of Twitter, every post by authorities
or state media was quickly bombarded with hundreds of thousands of comments on
the proposed bill. One of the hashtags was read <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E5%A4%96%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%B8%E4%B9%85%E5%B1%85%E7%95%99%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E6%9D%A1%E4%BE%8B%23">almost
4 billion times</a> in a country of 1.4 billion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Very few of the comments of posts
provided any intellectual justification for their opposing the bill, some did:
saying the move would foster corruption and take away jobs, but most only stated,
zoomed in and focused on one thing: black people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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People posted about how China
would be taken over by strong black genes, how Chinese women would be raped, how
blacks would bring crime. Some simply stated that <a href="https://weibo.com/5483320956/IwSztrDKH">they really hated black people.</a></div>
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Citizens posted pictures of
officials in <a href="https://weibo.com/5483320956/IwS4By2gl">crosshairs</a>
and some depicted an official bent over and a black man in an orange prison
uniform and the N-word plastered on his chest seemingly sodomizing him. Apparently
the official, Yang Yiyong had said some positives words about inter-racial marriage.
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Every Chinese person who could
find a video of <a href="https://weibo.com/5483320956/IwS4aCmYt">black people
doing crime</a> did so and plastered it on social media. One of the most widely
circulated shows two black teens <a href="https://www.weibo.com/5483320956/IwS1ehAnJ?type=comment">shoplifting</a>
in an unidentified country. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another video
from the <a href="https://twitter.com/HappyHarryMedia/status/1232301166358355970">120db
movemen</a>t in Europe which has young white women describing being harassed by
refugees also got widely circulated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For effect, pictures of black men
with Chinese girls were plastered all over the place and the women were called
whores. The vitriol was reminiscent of the recent controversy over a program by
Shandong University to foster <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2019/07/translation-cyber-abuse-after-study-buddy-controversy/">cultural
communication</a> during which netizens also used pictures of Chinese women with
brown and black men to make their points, to bully the girls and to stroke
nationalism. </div>
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Even though gory videos are not
allowed on Chinese social media, it seemed Weibo, QQ and Wechat made an exception
if the offender was black. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fake news was also a big part of
the narrative and it was pushed by accounts some of whom are verified. One
involved a picture of black people had words saying that France is now <a href="https://weibo.com/5483320956/IwS3Zr1Jw">80 percent black</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One picture featured a banner in Africa
shouting: ‘Rape Rape Rape: You can do it in China. Refugees can do anything.
Contact the Chinese Embassy Now! You will not be punished.’ This text was
wrapped around a drawing of three black men pinning down and raping an <a href="https://weibo.com/5483320956/IwS3Zr1Jw">Asian woman</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ohers circulated a picture of
pure <a href="https://weibo.com/5866635961/IwIkGyIp3">yellow corn</a> next to
another <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>batch with dark purple corn
overshadowing the yellow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some shared accounts of how they
fear walking around on campuses where black people also study, some shared pictures
of blacks on Chinese trains. Meme after meme rained. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have lived in China since 2013,
I know it is one of the most racist countries on earth, but this week’s
eruption on social is one I have not seen before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even some of my former Chinese students were blatantly
posting about blacks bringing HIV to China and their hatred of black people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is fashionable for Chinese
schools to openly <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChinaEFL/search/?query=European%20&epa=SEARCH_BOX">advertise
jobs</a> and demand that only white people apply. In some Chinese cities,
schools would rather have Russians who can barely speak English than have black
English professors. This is something every black person who spends enough time
in China knows. The current racist movement is however a new thing. </div>
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With the economy in bad shape,
with households in financial trouble could someone be provoking fears among the
population to make them forget their actual problems? It sure seems so because
with all their censorship and their toughness against the topics that criticise
government, authorities seem to be happy letting this one gain steam.<o:p></o:p></div>
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None of the naturalized citizens of
China that I have seen are black, it is already hard for Africans to even apply
for visas to China and some hotels in China <a href="https://supchina.com/2018/08/08/not-allowed-to-receive-african-guests-discrimination-at-guangzhou-hotels/">blatantly
refuse</a> to let in anyone with an African passport. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is fashionable being racist in
China. When one rapper was accused of promoting drug use, he apologised and <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1083357.shtml">blamed it on ‘black music</a>,’
and he was forgiven. One wonders how people like me who listen to nothing but
black music are seen in China. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
also a massive movement of Chinese going to Africa and making <a href="https://www.weibo.com/u/3977711153?refer_flag=1005055014_">demeaning
videos</a> of unsuspecting natives in Mandarin for clicks and views in China.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chinese can be racist all they
want, but to use blackness as a scapegoat in times of economic and social
turmoil is disturbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is more
disturbing if one considers that there are <a href="https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/chinas-second-continent-how-million-migrants-are-building-new-empire-africa">a
million Chinese in Africa</a> and the author Howard French found that Chinese
push African governments to lower immigration restrictions against Chinese as
part of trade deals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black people are subjected to a
medical before and after they enter China, most of the HIV clusters in China have
no links Africa. They come from the women Chinese men are fast-tracking and traffic
into marriage from <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115599">Myanmar</a>
to fill the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/">shortage
of women</a> in China, from gay men who are not targeted by HIV outreach
messages and from bad practices in <a href="https://khn.org/morning-breakout/dr00022674/">collecting blood</a> from
poor and desperate locals who used to sell blood for survival. Yet the black
man is the bogeyman. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When the coronavirus broke out China
constantly complained of being stigmatized, it even expelled reports of the Wall
Street Journal over a headline <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-expels-three-wall-street-journal-reporters-11582100355">it
deemed racist</a>. All that now seems very questionable if anyone looks at what
is on Chinese social media now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most retweeted tweet in the world was one that promised people they would win money, even then it only got
retweeted about <a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/most-retweeted-tweets/">5
million times</a>. Compare that to the billions of views and hundreds of millions
of comments on the issue, it should show you how hateful just one country is
towards blacks. </div>
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Some would argue that it is simply
Chinese being against foreign influence, but that would be not correct because
even though there are more whites in China and more white-Chinese couples in
China, they are conspicuously missing from the uproar and slander.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are many African students
studying in China as China desperately tries to appear internationalized, many
Africans also jet into southern China to buy products that keep many businesses
in China alive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is it possible to hate the very people one
needs? How long before all the social media vitriol turns into real violence
against black people in China? What is the end game? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-67189802301380651832020-02-13T16:02:00.000+02:002020-02-13T16:07:33.816+02:00HRDC raped Democracy with MEC Sealing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kamuzu Banda’s dick was big, he
never washed it – that did not stop him from fucking the young girl that he
held captive since birth. For years he forced himself on the girl. Anyone who
opposed him was disappeared or exiled and the rest that remained cheered him on
as he fucked the little girl until his balls ran out of cum.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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That girl is Malawi. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today, the girl - still underage -
saw the Human Rights Defenders Coalition’s dick. It is clean and well-kempt but
it is as big as Kamuzu’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And like
Kamuzu, HRDC also raped that underage girl. Mercilessly. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By sealing Malawi Electoral
Commission premises across the country, HRDC normalised lawlessness and dealt
democracy a big blow. A blow so big, we might actually never recover from as we
descend into failed state status. The rape imagery is to underline the gravity.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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All the demonstrations that HRDC
has conducted to date, all the petition - whether the DC have permission or not
- have all been a great sign of a vibrant civil society. People in China or Russia
must be watching and wondering how we got so lucky to be able to express
ourselves so freely. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All that changed today. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Akin to Rape - HRDC crosses the line.</td></tr>
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Malawi is a country based on laws
and the constitution. At least this is what we all have agreed is the truth. ‘Rule
of Law’ is the phrase we love to invoke when we issue incantations to summon
the spirit of democracy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before I continue, I will have to
issue a disclaimer: I hate DPP and I think Peter Mutharika wouldn’t know a
leader if he sat next to Nelson Mandela. DPP is a criminal cartel that is delaying
Malawi’s progress. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I also don’t have any soft spots
for Jane Ansah. All democrats in her position would have resigned once their role
was called into question. The Romanian prime minister resigned because there
was a fire at a nightclub. He was not even there nor did he start it but
resigned over it. Ansah’s strange unflinching resolve to cling on to office is
hard to explain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With that said, we are a serious
country with laws. A democracy. A republic. What HRDC did today was illegal and
will still be illegal tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If MEC is compromised by the
executive branch or external powers, the courts and parliament can fix it. UTM
and MCP were doing just that, they sought the court’s help and the court ruled
in their favour. MEC has a competence problem was the verdict. <o:p></o:p></div>
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MEC feeling wronged also sought
the court’s intervention - all this being very much their right in a democratic
dispensation just like it was UTM/MCP’s right earlier. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why the HRDC’s actions
constitute raping of our young nascent democracy. HRDC can go to court if it
feels MEC is trying to game democracy. HRDC can demonstrate and rally public
opinion and even play psychological games to make the judges subconsciously lean
in their favour. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The sealing of public offices was
too much. They say one’s right to swing a fist ends where another’s nose starts
- HRDC swung its fist right into MEC’s nose and that is not okay. MEC’s nose
also happens to be our democracy’s nose. Very not okay. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
People can rise up when tyranny
takes over – I know a great French philosopher that recommends that – but we
are not there yet. It is just Jane Ansah, MEC and APM and so far, they seem to
be losing. So why take the law in your hands? <o:p></o:p></div>
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If they can seal MEC, why not
just go all the way top the state house and seal the gates there also? Why not
also go to MBC to switch off transmission? Don’t forget the corrupt and inept
traffic police!<o:p></o:p><br />
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The actions of HRDC today also beg the question: Where is the victory in this? Who will the chains stop? MEC officials will simply saw them off, it is not like that would be contempt of court or anything. What does HRDC gain? </div>
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Kamuzu raped that girl repeatedly
because people were not woke. HRDC committed democratic rape in full view of
some of the most educated and the rape was beamed all over the internet. In 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ‘media’ updated us on every
step HRDC took: chains hanging about like CrossFit athletes. The public cheered,
danced and provided the ambient music. The Police - the very body with the mandate
to stop law breaking - gave HRDC a wide berth just like the police in Mexico
looking away while the Sinaloa cartel passes or Afghan police when the Taliban
approaches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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MDF was there too, as if there
was an external threat afoot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They all just watched on as the
big dick of the HRDC sliced that little girl’s vagina. Not one among them stopped
to think about the implications.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No word from the courts, no word
from UTM and MCP, no word from the usually readily available political analysts
or the long-nosed-dollar-wagging white donors who also usually always never
pass up a chance to lecture others on democracy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Already Facebook is awash with
pictures of MEC offices being sealed shut across the nation, tomorrow the
newspapers will also force-feed us with the pictures and headlines of the same
shit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I understand the vibe is all
about hashtag DPPOut, but ours is also a constitutional republic. One can
either be a democrat or not. There is no middle ground. We cannot operate like Limbe
vendors sometimes and play constitutional republican at other times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Acemoglu and Robinson in their
book ‘Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,’ a study
that examined countries all over the globe, found that many countries that do
well do not do so because they are lucky or have high IQ or have resources. Most
successful countries just have proper and truly democratic institutions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If we cannot respect our institutions
it is as good as not having them. If we don’t have the institutions, we can
create some. We can create one to make justice get delivered quickly, we can
make others to deal with belligerent institutions or officers. So far, I think
we have some of these, all we need is to respect them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Only then will we be a true
democracy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-53144526153246918382019-12-23T11:49:00.000+02:002019-12-23T11:55:53.227+02:00A Quick Look at Malawi’s First 20 Years of The 21st Century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Bright Mhango Special </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">First things first: we should give respect to
the 90’s for the foundations they laid. Kamuzu got dethroned, democracy
returned and most of what will be talked about here has roots in the 90s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also a quick disclaimer here, I put up this
piece alone, it is biased of course, if you don’t like it, fuck you. Also, I
keep saying ‘20 Years’ because 2020 is already here and because 2020 will not
bring drastic historical change enough to make some issues discussed here
irrelevant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An ode to the Cell phone.</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the start of the century, post office
workers behaved like pretty girls among ugly ones. They had our lives by the
balls. To receive money we had to get telegrams, to send messages we had to
use snail mail. Not for long, when the cell phones got rooted, it
revolutionized Malawi. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Everyone wanted to invest in a telephone
bureau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yes, remember the telephone
bureaus, then came the Nokias, my first was a 3310, then I moved to a 6600.
Remember the Blackberry mania? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It may seem like an eon ago, but we have moved
from Post Office to WhatsApp very fast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tip a hat to the FM radio</span></h4>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t5iMonZpxBs/TR5ba4EQaeI/AAAAAAAAAKU/9MXYDwKJL44yUCu0MyEMK2DUiROeLqvywCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/026-715470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="448" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t5iMonZpxBs/TR5ba4EQaeI/AAAAAAAAAKU/9MXYDwKJL44yUCu0MyEMK2DUiROeLqvywCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/026-715470.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back in the dark ages there was only MBC, Yeah,
tough, I know. With the coming of FM 101 in 1998, things were headed in a
different direction. Along came Capital Radio and then in 2005 Zodiak, launched
by one Gospel Kazako came to take over. The last 20 years have seen radio take
root among Malawians. No longer did they have to have long aerials to catch
Channel Africa or BBC, the FM signal meant that the urbanites could enjoy
crispy delivery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here we have to pause to remember the likes of
Adha Mhone, Hope Chisanu, Gerald Viola, Joy Natho, Sister Fire and all that
crew that made radio so dear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Vehicle of the Century:
Toyota Hiace</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are not more than 6000 minibuses in
Malawi and if you are living in Mzuzu now you might actually wonder why the
fuck a minibus could win this accolade, but you need to look at the bigger
picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the transportation industry was
liberalised and pricing no longer controlled by government, there was a boom in
minibus proliferation. One of the advantages of the minibus was that it was
speed and convenience. It could stop anywhere and could reach places where big
buses never went. Some traffic police officers should thank minibuses for the
homes they live in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ARVs – an Incredible
Revolution</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Malawi realised that it had HIV in 1985; I
remember they told stories of it first being identified in some Miss Malawi. I
remember a health worker – a Mrs. Mseteka – coming to our primary school to
educate us about the disease, it was mythical back in the 90s. People said HIV
patients could be noticed by looking for a coin-like imprint on their tongues
and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matenda
a Boma</b> was not here to play. Records say in the 90s up to 30 percent of
pregnant women had it. It was fucking insane; they effects of that 80s-90s boom
took its toll at the end of the last and the start of this century, people were
dying like crazy. If you stood at Kameza or Luwinga or by Salima Road, the
number of dead being ferried to their villages for burial in the 97s was
fucking ridiculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They even say the food crisis of 2002 was
because the labour pool was hit badly by the disease. It is why ARVs deserve a
place in our history. Deaths were stemmed, lives saved, and some labour
returned to production. Now with almost 90% of us knowing our status and 70
percent of roughly one million infected being on ART, let us not forget where
we are coming from. The stupid stigma that the disease came with and how our
traditional approach and our hiding behind religion almost cost us a nation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Honorary mention: The
Polio vaccine.</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I was young most adults had significant numbers
of polio victims. When I went to secondary school in 2002, I think my whole
school had no one with Polio related disability. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Things we buried</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Quinine, that dear and dreaded Malaria cure.
The AM radio. Those outrageous FUBU type hip hop attires, Adha Muhone,
Matafale, Vic Marley, Mafunyeta, Chakufwa Chihana, Matchipisa Munthali, Dr
Rubadiri, Landson Mhango, Josephy Tembo, Rodwell Munyenyembe, George Mtafu to
list but a few. We also cannot explain where erstwhile domestic names like
Undule Mwakasungula went.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bingu wa Mutharika –
Malawian of the last 2 Decades</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bakili Muluzi was all about running his mouth;
he wasted the hopeful momentum the country had after ditching Kamuzu. He could
have harnessed the momentum to entrench democracy and institutions, but he
didn’t. He got rich and the country got fucked. I cannot remember how many times
the syllabus got changed under him, education was watered down and Malawi
became more corrupt under him for sure. That is Why Bingu is important. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t get too excited yet, Bingu never helped
us either, in fact, fuck Bingu. May he rot in peace. He is however our man of
the decade because he represented a watershed moment in many ways. He was an
outside man, he spoke against corruption, and he held on to the fertilizer
subsidy and actually registered some spectre of success with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He also took Malawi from China ROC to China PRC
and was prepared to confront our colonial masters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mutharika however stole our money: he was a
basic man before taking power and yet died with over 60 billion. His associates
continue to fuck the country to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He also attempted to be a junior Mugabe and
copied his rhetoric on gays and that did not help. Donors left us in limbo and
we all remember the forex and fuel shortages and the university closures under
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He is the man of the last two decades for not
only turning us on with hope that we lost under Bakili Muluzi but also leaving
us horny with his short-sightedness and a DPP party that continues to just
finger us with their kletpo-nepoto-mediocratic rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I should have said fool of the decade, really. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hall of Shame.</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Walter Nyamilandu – For clinging on to office
for so long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when the right thing to do
is to stand down after failing to significantly improve Malawian soccer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Peter Mukhito – For his zealotly, role and
stand during the Academic Freedom saga.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Jane Ansah – For Not resigning when her office
was called into question and still clinging onto her office even when the
country burned and people died over her stay in office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bingu – That motherfucker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bakili Muluzi – For his shambolic rule<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Cancers</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Violent Crime</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We
entered the new century with much euphoria – not for the people of Chiradzulu.
Women and girls never dared to go out after dusk lest they get discovered dead
without their breasts and vaginas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was scary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When TVs and Stereos and other electronics were
white elephants in Malawi, there was a string of robberies in the cities, the
scary ones being those guys that came as group of 20 and smashed in doors with
rocks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the Albino Killings that are still
on-going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A type of racist lynching, I
call it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Under this heading, a few stand out. First is
the killing of a pregnant 26yo Linda Gasa in 2010. She was killed and buried in
a shallow concrete grave. Her boyfriend is still the main suspect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Robert Chasowa was hacked in 2011 by
alleged DPP thugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then there was the killing of Issa Njauju in
2014 of an ACB employee by corrupt people? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some of the Iconic and brutal images we have
seen in the last 20 years have been courtesy of the Malawi Police Disservice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Corruption</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here the Police led by the DPP take centre
stage but the whole nation is in on it too. I can count using just my five
fingers my close friends who actually went to driving school before they got their
driving licenses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nachipanti</span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the height of the first decade of the 21<sup>st</sup>
Century gory and macabre murders scenes started appearing in Ndirande Blantyre,
the same hysteria that gripped the women of Chiradzulu gripped Ndirande
residents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some Jack Bandawe was named
by police as principal suspect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Albino</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Killings</span></span></b></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is its own category despite having already
been discussed under violent crime because despite Malawians always having
harboured superstitious attitudes towards albinos, it was only this decade that
saw them being hunted, kidnapped, cut up and their bones yanked off sometimes
while the victims were still alive. It is unprecedented, only Malawian women
have been specifically targeted like that for their body parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mulanje ‘Bloodsuckers’
Hysteria</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now, most of the people in the rural and urban
areas in Malawi are - how do I say <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">achimidzi</i></b> in English? – I will go
with uncivilized. That came to the fore in at the end of 2017 and into 2018
when they formed lynch mobs attacking cars and foreigners <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suspecting them of being vampires and fuelling
mass hysteria. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Men of God – Pentecostal
Churches </span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Catholics, Presbyterian and Anglicans ruled
the religious scene, they rooted out ATR and planted Jesus in Malawian hearts,
but like the Post Office and cell phones, they can now only watch as new age
charismatic Pentecostal churches built around men explode... Ndovie, Living
waters, Cavalry Family, Bushiri – I could go on and on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you enter Blantyre, start counting from
Lunzu, there are more of these churches than schools or hospitals or schools
and hospitals combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Many, mostly feebly educated females have sold
out to this rebranded Jesus and spend hours on end praying in aggressive terms
to this new Jesus. Back in the day the only annoying religious noise was the muezzin
from the mosques and an occasional bell from the big chapels, these days
neighbours bellowing out players all night is as common as Usipa at the market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Return of Traditional
Healers </span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another type of cancer that has made a return
to Malawi are these doctors - falsely so called. Now if you open the newspaper
or walk around our dirty cities there are thousands of posters on walls and
poles advertising how some doctor will bring back lost love, help secure
employment and even cure chronic diseases such as cancer. They are the cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Police</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Okay now, this is an important institution in a
democracy but sadly, in Malawi the police in the last two decades have operated
more like a ruling party paramilitary wing. There have been police caught using
service guns to rob; the amount of police that get painted black in the Robert
Chasowa murder is staggering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Century started with Police gunning down
Fanikiso Phiri in December 2001 and in you fast-forward through the last 20 years
via July 20, 2011 and up to the recent publication of a report that says police
have been systematically killing suspects, you get the picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some of my least moral friends joined the
police and I don’t know any other institution more corrupt in Malawi. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Their playing cuckold to the DPP government as
we saw with the July 2011 demonstrations, their handling of the Academic
Freedom Saga and their trigger-happy policing tactics that see them flinging
teargas at anything they encounter has seen them become targets whenever
Malawians are disgruntled, very few see them as neutral arbiters – very few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The traffic police – let me not even begin to
speak of those motherfuckers. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found that for
every 100 Kwacha a traffic police officer has in the bank 80 Kwacha comes from
being bribed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Street Vendors</span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another group of sick fucks. Yes, they are at
least trying to better their lives by selling trinkets, but they are still a
cancer. They make the cities look like shitholes; they engender crime and
harassment and go against the law. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UDF</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The initial plan was to list this as
‘Politicians’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but I was like fuck it,
there have only been two parties of note in the last 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So yeah, led by Muluzi, the UDF wrestled
power from MCP; they led the privatisation era and also the plunder of public
coffers. Most of the UDF bigwigs resultantly got very rich. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DPP</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Bingu grabbed power from UDF he rode the
anti-corruption sentiment but was soon to also lead his own crusade to implant
his own mates, kinsmen and yes-men in critical positions to loot and chop
public coffers as well. Most of the people in the DPP were UDF people after
all, making DPP a mere UDF 2.0.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sports Betting </span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I remember back in my primary school days even betting
over playing cards <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was done in secret,
that all seems like in the past with the giant sports betting companies ruling
most of the Malawian youth’s lives. If anyone who died in 2012 woke up today,
he would be shocked at how sports betting has gained ground. A cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Alcoholism </span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now, let us not lie, there has always been
alcohol among societies. It however took a different look in the last 19 years.
Cheap alcohol sold in plastic sachets saw most of our youths drinking. Even
after the ban, the still cheaper but larger Ice Londons are still very
attractive to the youths. A cancer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Illiteracy and cultural
poverty</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We have internet, we have the FM radio and
Wikipedia and education at the primary level is free but when you look at the
comment section of Malawians or when you listen in on public debates of snoop
in on the WhatsApp groups<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you can see
that those Malawians online can write, but that is about it. No depth. It is
worse among those Malawians offline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Give them free internet, they will look at porn and browse about
scandals, give them TV, they will watch sports and drama. Not many are into
self-improvement or knowledge acquisition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Future Issues</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">China</span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">China is here, Bingu brought it here. They are
here for a reason. They will be one of the most significant relationships we
will have to deal with in the next 20 years and if we don’t have a policy or
plan, we will follow theirs. We might not want to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Population management </span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is growing. Even people who need to be shot
dead on sight or castrated are having babies. Most of the friends I consider
dumb already have multiple babies. We will need a plan for these babies we are
spewing. How to feed, house, educate and give them opportunities to earn a
living. A big population is desirable, but a hungry, uneducated and unemployed
one is a waste of DNA and resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Natural Resources
Management </span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yeah, the hills in Blantyre are 98% bare, we
all use charcoal but no one owns a forest, the rivers and lakes are being
overfished like crazy, we don’t particularly have that much coal and all this
mining we are getting into cannot go past 2050. So what do we do with the
little we have left?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tribal Strife </span></h4>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If Bingu’s Anti Northern Region sentiments were
nothing to go by then the election in 2019 told us that it is not just hatred
against the north that is the norm. The MCP, read Chewa, feel that it was
robbed and the Yao and Lhomwe, read UDF and DPP, for the first time banded
together to keep power in the South. We saw some isolated overt outbursts of
tribal bigotry in the aftermath of the election, but it has largely been
muffled. But it is cancer, it is there and it needs to be explicitly seen to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Illiteracy and cultural
poverty</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An idle, feebly educated youth is a time bomb.
A culturally poor society means stuff like witchcraft and blind belief in
religion will persist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mass Hysteria and Fake
News</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The recent lynch mobs in Mulanje, the stories
about men being caught in the ceiling at the court, the clan clashes in Nkhata
Bay and Mangochi all have a mass hysteria angle and some are fuelled by the
very technology we acquired in this century. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>The death of Tobacco </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We are a mono-economy, we rely on a crop that is being ditched globally. We might want to start looking at alternatives to tobacco.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Outro</b></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Bakili said every Malawian would have a shoe on, Vision 2020 had incredible predictions about the just passed 20 years, Even the UN was in on it with their sweet-sounding Millenium Development Goals.</o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>We missed most targets and we will miss most of the upcoming ones, do not believe the party manifestos or the words of the likes of Walter Nyamilandu or Peter Mutharika. Our National Team will never play like Barcelona and Malawi will never develop to the level of Europe, not in our lifetime.</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>We cannot because we do not have the institutions to allow it. All we have is greed. We all want a house and a car and our kids to do well - we don't care whether that comes at the expense of others or the country. We are fucked and will stay so until we build an inclusive and true democracy. </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Out.</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-52508577455144396502019-03-08T09:20:00.000+02:002019-03-08T10:22:20.689+02:00On that hot China question – Running Mate Debate Analysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Frank Mwenefumbo’s response to a
question on what the UDF would do about the illegal logging and mining by
Chinese nationals during the running mate’s debate should send shivers in
Beijing and at Area 12. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mwenefumbo started his response by saying it
is not just the Chinese doing the plunder and wondered why there are no strict laws for
immigrants in Malawi like there are abroad and then he dropped the bombshell:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“The UDF will make tougher
immigration laws, and as for the aforementioned Chinese…The Chinese, I
personally do not see their value here because when they bring their money,
their loans, they bring their own workers<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>and Malawi does not gain a thing and yet we will give back this loan,
this , the UDF government will look into and to be honest we should wary with
the coming of the Chinese, the do not add value to our economy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Applause ensued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The moderator got spooked and
asked if that policy would not scare investors. Mwenefumbo stood his ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">UTM’s response was tame and beat
about the bush but it also hinted to taming migrants and bemoaned the lack of laws.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The MCP took a dig at the Chinese who
come to open bars in </span></div>
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rural areas and indicated that the country should only
invite ‘real’ investors.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">PP’s Jana gave an interesting
response saying the tough laws are already here and pointed at the judiciary as
part of the problem of the laws being ignored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now, maybe, Jana meant to point
that finger at the Police who need to enforce the law, but the bigger story
there was the unified anti-China statement that echoed from the debators and the
audience.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now here is my take.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First, let us do the
fact-checking. The Chinese - be it through MUST, grants, loans, scholarships,
projects like roads BICC, cheap materials and as a market for raw material - do
add value to the economy. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As for everything else…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We indeed need to stop the poaching
and we indeed cannot just open our streets to anyone who wishes to come. That is
on one hand, on the other it is not the Chinese who locate the mines or forests
to plunder, they don’t shoot the elephants, they don’t fly into Malawi under
cover of night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As Malawian working in China, I
cannot just get a job or start a business here without proper and sometimes excessive and prohibitive paperwork. I am not allowed to stay in 90%
of the hotels here, If I rent an apartment or even just move to a new city, I need
to register with the police within 48 hours. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, as you can see, and as Jana
mistakenly pointed out, the problems are with our enforcers. If we shut out the
Chinese, the Nigerians will come, if we shut out everyone else, we will do it
ourselves. We do it well enough in Dzalanyama (which feeds Lilongwe with unchecked
illegal charcoal.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If we want to protect our
resources, why not do it? Do Chinese force their way into the national parks? If
China was lawless, I could be a drug dealer, or also go and traffic some pandas
or start a prostitution ring, that is not possible because the Chinese are vigilant,
have the will to check and prevent and the operational tough laws to deter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Also, why do the Chinese not cut
down forests in the UK and why do we never hear reports of illegal Chinese mining
in Canada or poaching in the Yellowstone National Park in the USA?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The problem is with our system
and these bad Chinese guys are just cashing in on an open gap. Here is where I also
need to say that the Chinese criminals need to be separated from the Chinese as
a nation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If a Malawian is caught
dealing drugs in Hong Kong, we do not expect it to be seen as representing government
or the people in Malawi as a whole. See?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On Loans and Investments </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As for the unfair loans and the
projects that see cheap labour imported from China, it is the same thing as the
poaching and illegal mining. A loan is an agreement, it was signed and all
details fine-tuned and agreed to before it was given. If we want to prevent an
influx of Chinese labourers or ridiculous project arrangements, let us do so
before signing the agreements.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Implications</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It will be very interesting to
see how the Chinese respond to this. They will make a mistake by siding with DPP
because it will mean admission of guilt. The best way is for them to deny the involvement
with criminals and declare that the laws deal with criminals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">China can also simply avoid these
issues by employing local labour, how this is such a hard thing to do baffles
me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Chinese can also do themselves
a favour by engaging in more areas than just trying to promote their culture
and business. This to me is a huge weakness on their part. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Marxist Links</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Also interesting is the fact that
despite all the exploitation by Western nations, only China is being picked
out. No one is brave enough to point out how a few European families still own
almost half of Mulanje and Thyolo or that they also give us projects where we
can only buy products from their country or how they game the commodities
market to keep us poor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I mean even the debate was
sponsored by the big guns, UK, US, Ireland and they were there in the front
seats like kings. Imagine if China attempted to sponsor the event!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, yes, Chinese projects are unfair
in many ways and Chinese nationals are leading the plunder of our resources,
but to say we are powerless or victims is a lie, they never forced us not did
they come here by way of an invasion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lastly, while we examine the
Chinese, we should not forget the Americans, and Brits and these white folks
who have been fucking us since records begun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ciao.</span></div>
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Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-34452249201461425222019-02-26T20:05:00.002+02:002019-02-26T20:17:09.473+02:00How to Get that Chinese Scholarship - Tips and Sample Motivational Letter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2jAVi4IFLndm3mt03iGWYi1WKA28w09jdxXasjmp7ZUDlYVs6CXHMG7oNSuF-RBSXvx0ekr31BVUipbG4FD0gGvQ2lnOEXuqztTGD65ZGRJF1aMREJ_Q6xEmXapxxNvWG0DGkr-JsOw/s1600/2015-06-27+10.01.37-ANIMATION.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="972" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2jAVi4IFLndm3mt03iGWYi1WKA28w09jdxXasjmp7ZUDlYVs6CXHMG7oNSuF-RBSXvx0ekr31BVUipbG4FD0gGvQ2lnOEXuqztTGD65ZGRJF1aMREJ_Q6xEmXapxxNvWG0DGkr-JsOw/s320/2015-06-27+10.01.37-ANIMATION.gif" width="320" /></a>Many people think that the Chinese Government Scholarships are awarded mostly to children of the DPP party or sons of high ranking government officials, maybe those people say that because the surnames of the winners of the scholarship sometimes read like a DPP or top government officials' list.<br />
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I had the same doubts back in 2013, after all I was a reporter at <i>The Nation</i>, which was not only critical of the government but also of Chinese nationals in Malawi. I still got the Scholarship without bribing anyone or without asking anyone to put in a good word for me. </div>
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I want to share with you how I did it and maybe you can grab a tip or two. You never know, you might be the lucky one this time.</div>
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<b>1. Have Good Grades</b></div>
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Just because it is open to all does not mean you can get your shitty lower class pass degree and think you will get in. </div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RQ5-MrZRG8k/XHV897Rx3WI/AAAAAAABBto/sPKtt8yit2YZrSgsRwaMG9vGHfMm3BTUQCKgBGAs/s1600/20140517_153202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RQ5-MrZRG8k/XHV897Rx3WI/AAAAAAABBto/sPKtt8yit2YZrSgsRwaMG9vGHfMm3BTUQCKgBGAs/s320/20140517_153202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<b>2. Nail the motivational statement</b></div>
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This should actually be number 1. This is important. All people who are applying are qualified, so who can go in out of the 1000s that apply. To be one of the 35 or so that make it, you need to get creative with this part.<br />
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> Don't waste time talking about your dead mother or how you were a Scom chair in secondary school. Look to the future. What will Malawi get if you get that degree? What will China get? What will you and your community get? </div>
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These degrees are offered as part of a soft power push by China, so in your statement remind the Chinese that you will help bridge the gap that is there between Africa and China by way of skills, changing attitudes and even language.<br />
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> Remember to be unique, I always write these things playfully because I know the one who will read is a man like me, they don't want to be bored with details about how you never stole any money when you were a treasurer. They prefer to see what you can do, or even when you stole the money. </div>
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<b>Here is what my motivational statement looked like:</b></div>
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<i>"I write to apply for a scholarship from your government to study a Masters Degree in International Relations at Shandong University starting this September as you advertised in The Nation of January 31, 2013.</i></div>
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<i>I hold a Bachelors Degree (with credit) in Journalism from the University of Malawi; I have Malawi Senior Certificate of Examination (MSCE) with a distinction average. I have three years working experience.</i></div>
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<i> I am a 27 year old single Malawian resident in Lilongwe, with a healthy constitution; I have never been hospitalized and possess an athletic build. I currently work as a reporter for Nation Publication Limited. </i></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QkZPVTW9iXM/XHV8VtZpK0I/AAAAAAABBtU/0iNO131U43gIRj0GVi0tUfXUMjeAw5CwwCKgBGAs/s1600/2015-06-27%2B10.06.43-ANIMATION.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="972" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QkZPVTW9iXM/XHV8VtZpK0I/AAAAAAABBtU/0iNO131U43gIRj0GVi0tUfXUMjeAw5CwwCKgBGAs/s320/2015-06-27%2B10.06.43-ANIMATION.gif" width="320" /></a><i>I did International Relations as a module in my fourth year. The brief stint with appealed to me more than journalism...there is surely more satisfaction in linking cultures and fostering inter-border relations than just writing about such. </i></div>
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<i>I am youthful and energetic and take my studies seriously, I respect authority am highly ethical. I work hard to achieve my goals. I require minimal supervision and I am well versed in research methodology </i></div>
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<i>I have always wanted to get closer to China, as a fanatic of Chinese movies, I have always admired the Chinese culture: the dress, the cuisine community organization, values such as quest for justice and discipline.</i></div>
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<i> It is my burning desire to get even closer to Chinese culture and this opportunity is but a perfect chance. </i></div>
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<i>As a journalist, I see how the African media views China, scandalizing even cases that are better talked over at dinner. </i></div>
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<i>This is however due to a gap that exists in our society, China needs Africans to represent it in Africa so that they should, using the multiplier effect, change the crooked image that rests in the mind of many an African. </i></div>
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<i>If I leave china with a Masters degree in international relations, I am almost certainly going to be in the service of China-Malawi relations and what better candidate can best serve for the position than he who owes his Masters degree to the Chinese? </i></div>
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<i>The British managed to set up an empire in Africa by engaging locals; they got hold of African power by using Africans themselves. In 2013 and looking ahead China is set to surpass the United States of America or Britain in many spheres of comparison. But what is being a giant if you have no friends? </i></div>
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<i>The international Relations books available in Malawi are not surprising very biased to the Western powers, all examples and theory are Western....doing an International Relations course in China will not only balance the bias but also unearth the hidden knowledge that I never got to see from the Eastern frontier.</i></div>
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<i>I want to be part of the Africans that helped China plant its foot in Africa. A Continent which can provide most of the much needed natural resources that China needs to truly be a superpower."</i></div>
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There are thousands of colleges in China. The Top five are universities that compete with the likes of Havard and even the Chinese sweat to get in. Look at the list of universities in China and straight away avoid the top 5 or so.<br />
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Tsingua, Zhezhiang and names likes that ned leaving alone, unless you are Mathews Mtumbuka or something, why not make your first choice be a university that is in the middle of the rankings, I went to a university that was ranked 27 there and 400 in the world, that is still a very good university. I got in cleanly.</div>
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If you go for a Master's degree in English, you will just need two years, if you go for a Masters in Chinese you will get three years. Many will choose English but they forget they are actually limiting their choices.<br />
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I would say be open to do it in Chinese, and by the way, despite how it looks, Chinese is easier to learn than Chiyao. In just six months, you will be ready to go in class with the Chinese. Believe me. Also, after 2 years in China, you will wish you stayed some more. It is fun. </div>
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Choosing Chinese language also shows you are willing to learn their culture and that should win you points. </div>
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being a corrupt country, you can simply go and get your medical form filled by some dobadoba at the hospital. That will back-fire. A Malawian lady came to China, they found her with HIV and she was also pregnant, they did not even allow her to go get her bags, they sent her back in shame in full view of all. Go get tested and make sure that before now and September, don't catch HIV.<br />
If it is eating, go to China, you will eat all you want there in a country with almost no HIV. </div>
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That also relates to your CV and recommendations. Some of the people you have listed in your documents will be called and some details checked. Don't take a shortcut.</div>
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Don't use that ID you took in your beach wear, Chinese judge a lot based on stereotypes and face value, it helps to look like a good black person. Play along. You can get that mohawk after you get there. </div>
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Now this is a bonus, first, do you know where the university you picked is? North China is as cold as Russia, south China is as hot as Chikwawa. Racism is rife in the south, food is spicy in the West, Air pollution is seriously an issue to consider in the big and industrial cities... small things like these are important.<br />
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Here is the scholarship <a href="http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/t1636873.htm" target="_blank">announcement</a></div>
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<a href="http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/t1636873.htm" target="_blank">http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/t1636873.htm</a></div>
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To Search for courses, find info on courses, whether they are in English or not and info on unis, this is a great place to start: <a href="https://www.cucas.edu.cn/" target="_blank">CUCAS</a><br />
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The Medical Examination Form is obtainable <a href="http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/P020190211774152280164.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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<a href="http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/P020190211774152280164.pdf" target="_blank">http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/ZGJXJ/P020190211774152280164.pdf</a><br />
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PS: If you have any document that can add advantage, for example TOEFL or IELTS, I would say add it to the mix, same goes for non-degree certificates. Do everything you can to give your application that unique smell.</div>
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If you have any questions, tweet to me on Twitter or Insta at: @<b>mutafire</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After I managed to corruptibly get an instant valid driving
license from the so called improved and incorruptible Directorate of Road
Traffic and Safety Services (DRTSS), the guys at there are very
bitter and are plotting to arrest me in addition to doing funny shit to appear holy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Read the full story here: </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">http://www.times.mw/road-traffic-still-rotten/ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The directorate
summoned me and by editor to appear before them at their head offices in
Lilongwe, today, Monday. We refused and told them to come to us if they have
issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They did not take it
well, they managed to invite a colleague who was in town to go to their offices
and told him how they wanted me arrested and charged on several counts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They told my colleague
that they were thinking of pinning me down for falsely obtaining a police
report, they also want to blame me for getting the license, apparently the
license I got belongs to someone else and was dormant in the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Funny thing is, they
have not moved to fix anything… all they did was install CCTV, which will catch
no one, as for example, the sting I did, involved me paying through the bank. I
wonder what CCTV can do to stop or fix corruption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Directorate also
told my colleague that they investigated the issue, but sad thing is they never
shared notes with me to hear exactly how it went down. They looked into their
system, but forgot to hear the human element which I observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Truth of the matter is,
even before I started work on the ground, I emailed Manong’a, the RTD director,
he said he would respond to me that evening but never did. I then went ahead
with the sting, imagine, the head of the directorate was aware I was making
inquiries into the bad and the ugly in his office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The guy that did the
license for us, Mr Likomba, did everything… he had to go and get the police
officer that wrote the fake report from the street. I never spoke to the police
officer, and I did not even leave the taxi, the report was cooked away from me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I did not even know why
we needed the report. All I did is get in Lilongwe, pay the guy, wait, and get
the license - all from the back seat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I really thought these guys would work with me to better the system, they instead chose to go against me and i am ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The message they are sending: we are corrupt and how dare you expose us. Sad but typical story of the Malawian way of life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People take jobs as
personal property and when you point out flaws they fume like you stabbed them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Truth of the matter is…
they claimed the system was unbeatable, that was a lie, and they are one of the
worst departments in the land. Either slow, either creating fake-ass charges
for motorists or carting in huge bribes to churn out licenses and the results
are there for everyone to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malawi has far too few
cars than many nations but the accidents stats are staggering. Good thing is
you know the guys fanning the deaths. Looking forward to the arrests. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What a lost
opportunity. This could be the directorate improving, they chose to stay
corrupt, inviting reporter to take photos of technicians fixing CCTV and shit.
Really. Some typical third world bull. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Bright Mhangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141905937813193627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532460305984783512.post-36626633410871924202015-11-02T10:08:00.001+02:002015-11-02T10:08:29.784+02:00Busy Signal Sealed and Delivered Sand Music Festival<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
When Busy Signal landed in Malawi he had on a Puma
top and one of the Facebook statuses I saw accused him of being one with a
common vendor and not like a respected artiste.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He was ‘shabby’ because he was away from office.
When Busy came on stage in Salima he was ready to host a TV show, blue
creaseless shirt, greyish blazer atop slim fitting pants and black shoes so
shiny a girl could use it as a mirror. He was fully official.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Busy is a high flier and despite that and the
fat </span>cheque<span lang="EN-US"> he pocketed,
he showed real humility in being in Africa. He did explicitly say this on
several interludes specifically highlighting that he is but a son of Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He promised a good show in his promo video and
during his first press appearance in Malawi, and he fully lived up to it and he
did remind us during the show. He said it’s not just in Malawi that he lights
up the place, he said he gives a hundred percent even when performing to young
school children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He was said to give a two hour show, but 2
hours fifteen minutes later, he was still on stage and asking the crowd to
request songs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How he can sing that long without losing his
voice is a mystery, especially because his dancehall lyrics are packed with
words. He drank water only twice or thrice during the show and never left
blanks between songs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How he could infuse ‘Malawi’ into his lyrics
and still not go out of sync is a mystery. He does his homework and planning,
remember he was nicknamed Busy Signal because they said he was always busy. His birth name is Glendale Goshia Gordon also
known as Reanno Devon Gordon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When he came onto the scene at the start of the
millennium I wrote him off along his fellow new entrants such as Bling Dawg.
Cheap lyrics, quasi-gangster affiliations and nothing to offer me, a hardcore
reggae fan. I was wrong. Among his contemporaries, he and the likes of the now
obsolete Vybz Kartel went on to become men of substance in the music industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And of those that made it, very few have
managed to conquer Africa in the way Bob Marley, Culture, Yellowman, Shabba
Ranks and Burning Spear did. Busy has
just done that. And he worked hard for this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Since he came with his <i>Tic Toc</i> and <i>Nuh Go a Jail
Again</i>, he has fine-tuned his game, to me I think he found out that
Dancehall is hard to sell beyond the Islands and he slowly went soft, went
reggae and brought in conscious lyrics to beef up the cheap dancehall clichés of
sex, money and gangster culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And he sort of walked us through his journey,
he did <i>Nuh Go a Jail Again, Hustle Hard,
Unknown Number, Bad Man Place, One more Night, Night Shift, Comfort Zone,
Dreams of Brighter Days, Hard Drugs, Night Nurse </i>among his many hits and
also dished out a new release <i>Shanty Town</i>
which is an updated version of Desmond Dekker’s 1967 hit of the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yes, 1967, and that is what makes Busy Busy… as
a reggae don, I know the original Shanty Town song, but for the millions of
millennials and slow learners they would never have heard of it if Busy never
went to the archives to repackage the song for the current tastes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My sister never knew of Gregory Isaacs until I
told her that the <i>Hard Drugs</i> tune she
likes from Busy is actually a Gregory Isaacs’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That is why I say that where Bob Marley left,
Busy Signal is continuing. Just this one trip to Malawi and Zimbabwe and
recently elsewhere in Africa is as important a mission to Reggae as Morton
Stanley’s and David Livingstone’s were to their masters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is one thing to get old songs, or write catchy
ones but performing them is a different story. Ever seen Hip Hop awards where
they just play a CD? Yes, boring and banal. Busy joins the cool Jamaicans who
recreate the song on stage using a band replete with keyboards, drums and
guitars. No CDs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I mentioned the blazer? It came off soon, his
blue shirt was to be drenched in gallons of sweat that streamed off his face
and body - understandable since he did about twenty songs, some of which came
in ragga stylee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Busy does songs the audience can sing with,
When he says ‘we nuh go a jail again’ the audience has no choice but to shout ‘oh
no!’ Or the relatable ‘<i>Bou-yah’</i> in the song of the same title.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Versatility is the Signal’s strength, he showed
us that he cannot only do his songs but can also do other’s too. He infused
bits of songs from Buju Banton, Gregory Isaacs, Cocoa Tea, Chaka Demus and
Pliers, Romain Virgo and Lionel Richie with perfect ease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Still on versatility, Busy did songs such as Dreams
of Brighter Days without Righteous Child (RC) who also featured on the song, he
also Did Shanty Town without Sugar Roy, he Did Bad Man Place without Mavado but
no one noticed their absence, he delivered it so well and so craftily that I did
not miss the others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He however brought along Esco Levi with whom he
delivered, perfect at that, the difficult to sing, Wicked Evil Man, again,
versatile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The posters should have included Esco Levi, it
was not just one Jamaican star that performed. Esco gave the crowd a good time
with a quick performance of <i>Jah Nah Sleep</i>
also from the <i>Brighter Days Riddim. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We got to see him in person, now we know he
always has a hat on because he is fast getting bald, we know he is not bad man
as he sometimes claims, and we know he is fast becoming a conscious reggae player
and moving away from dancehall, his <i>Reggae
Music Again</i> album being the indicator and its popularity probably his
motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My favorite part of Busy’s show was when he did
a rendition of Bobby McFerrin’s <i>Don’t Worry
Be Happy</i>. He reminded Malawians to stay positive even in hard times. He
whistled catchy part into the mic and then pointed the mic at us to bellow out
the ‘<i>Don’t worry’</i> part. Classic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The rest of the crowd were captivated by Dreams
of Brighter Days, for obvious reasons and the ladies loved <i>One More Night</i> and <i>Sweet Love</i>. Th crowd really wanted Busy to do Praise and Worship, but he did not and this would be the only low I can write about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I sang along so hard, I lost my voice inside an
hour, I danced so much, I slept 11 hours straight after that but even then, I cannot
match the effort Busy put into the show. And that Sunday morning will go into
the memories of many people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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