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My Polytechnic, My Cry

We’ve all heard that the students especially those at the universities are the future of tomorrow. They carry the hopes of all the nation on their shoulders as such one would expect them to be given the right conditions and infrastructure. To the general public the university is more like a paradise where students are the saints and the lecturers are more like angels. Secondary students dream of walking through the corridors of these universities thinking it’s the best place they could ever be at. Such is not the case for the University of Malawi The Polytechnic. Dilapidated buildings take the joy out of the students who make it to the college. The blank sign post that was supposed to be the campus map welcomes all the visitors to the  campus. Archaic hostels with their unsanitary conditions greet the few students who are given accommodation at the college campus. Empty promises have been made and never fulfilled. It is my prayer that something can be done for the sa...
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The Politicising of Tribal Functions

On Sunday I was greeted with sirens while I was on my way to Church. I was told that the President of Malawi was going to Mulhako Wa a Lhomwe. An annual gathering of all the Lhomwe people in Malawi. It came as no surprise to me as it He also comes from that tribe but what surprised me were the Democratic Progressive Party cars that were busy ferrying people to the function. If one could ask if all these people were Lhomwes he would be surprised to find that most of the people were not even lhomwe.  And instead of wearing Mulhako Wa a Lhomwe official colours the people were actually wearing their party's blue colours. Was this a Democratic Progressive Party rally perharps??? Is Mulhako Wa a Lhomwe a DPP committee??? I could hear the youth in the cars sing songs of praise for the President. "What correlation is there between what the President has done and the Mulhako Wa a Lhomwe?" I ask myself.  I continued heading for church but with so many questions in my mind. I...
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