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Malawi’s plans for major electoral reform are way overdue0
Malawi is set for a major overhaul of its winner-takes-all electoral system with far-reaching implications for the country, if ongoing efforts to reform the system bear fruit. Any changes in the voting system will represent the biggest overhaul of the country’s electoral system since it became a multiparty state in the mid 1990s. This followed
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Fake News is about Journalism, Not Social Media0
- Africa, Freedom of Expression, Journalism, Malawi, Media, Press Freedom
- 13.03.2017.
The BBC recently had their Africa debate in Blantyre, Malawi. The debate was on whether “journalism in Africa is threatened by fake news”. The BBC said they had the debate in Malawi because Malawians are keen and royal listeners of BBC World Service. What came out clearly in the course of the debate was that
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Even With Access to Information, Malawi Needs Whistle-blowers0
- Freedom of Expression, Malawi, Media
- 22.02.2017.
On 6th August 2016 one of Malawi’s two dailies, The Nation newspaper reported that Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs had started an exercise that would result in all public servants taking oath of secrecy in all government Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The Justice Ministry did not speak to the media but the then Minister
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Malawi and Zambia Get Maized0
- Africa, Development, Malawi, Zambia
- 10.02.2017.
This article was co-authored by Jimmy Kainja from Malawi Governments of Malawi and Zambia have come under fire over an alleged maize export scam of 100, 000 metric tons involving about US $13 million dollars. When the allegations of the scam surfaced, Malawi President Peter Mutharika appointed a Commission of Inquiry to probe into the
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Malawi Presidents and their Naïve Preference for Press Rallies0
- Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Malawi, Press Freedom
- 24.11.2016.
Writing in 2000, Francis Nyamnjoh, professor of anthropology at University of Cape Town made the following observation on African media: “An examination of most legal frameworks in Africa, even after the liberalisation of media in the 1990s, reveals a craving to control that leaves little doubt of lawmakers perceiving journalists as potential troublemakers who must
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It’s not just Mutharika, it’s the system as well0
- Governance, Malawi, Politics
- 27.10.2016.
Five days after Peter Mutharika’s return from his prolonged stay in the United States of America where he attended United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Malawi President, held a much anticipated press conference to brief Malawians on duties he carried out during his time in the USA. At least this was the official
READ MOREGrace Chiumia is a Victim of Malawi’s Defective Political System0
- Democracy, Governance, Malawi
- 10.08.2016.
Fredric Jameson, a contemporary American Marxist and literary critic opened his influence work on The Political Unconscious (1981) with that slogan: “always historicise.” Jameson’s view is that all works of literature are received by the reader with already read status – even new text, he argues, is read with a hangover of unconscious prejudice and
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Malawi, A Country of Short-Term Fixes and Permanent Crises0
- Africa, Development, Malawi, Politics
- 03.08.2016.
Malawi leaders are very good at finding quick fixes to complicated problems, akin to bandaging boils instead of bursting and treating them. Wishing problems away instead of dealing with them. Malawi is always in a state of crisis because its leaders always opt for quick but temporary fixes to complicated problems that seem popular at
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Malawi: The Problem with its Proposed National ID Cards0
- Development, Malawi
- 18.07.2016.
Malawi government has been running adverts in the local press announcing its pilot phase for national identity cards. This is a plausible move given that without IDs, it is utterly impossible for one to justify that they’re indeed Malawian. Birth certificates are not yet universal – those who want one have to pay for it
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Africa Needs a Collective Thinking Space0
- Africa, Democracy, Development, Malawi, Politics, Social Media
- 16.05.2016.
It has become very common in the increasingly narrow global sphere to hear people correcting one another that Africa is not a country. Indeed, Africa is a continent with 50 plus countries; countries with distinct cultural traditions, regional and national dialects. There are estimated 1,500 – 2,000 languages spoken in Africa. These are important issues
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