MTV awards: P-Square tops nominations

Nigerian artists, P-Squre has dominated the nominations list for the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA), according to the press release from TV Networks Africa and Zain.


The MAMA 2010 is sponsored by Zain in association with MasterCard. Arik Air is the official airline partner of the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain

Majete Wildlife Reserve-Malawi’s best kept secret

Seventy kilometres southwest of Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, lies Majete Wildlife Reserve (MWR) which covers nearly 70, 000 hectors of thriving wilderness.

This is the park which government abandoned after heavy poaching by the people from the surrounding villages, thanks to African Parks, which came to the rescue in 2003.

Traveling through the virgin mother Malawi

Born 24 years ago and raised in Malawi, I never realised how beautiful my mother land is, full of the wonderful scenery, the culture so absolute and full of lovely people.

Every year from September 19 -25, Malawians observe tourism week and it is for this reason I embarked on an adventure of discovering our tinny-jewel like nation.

On this one week journey, I felt no longer like a citizen; I really was a tourist in my own country-to find out what makes Malawi the ‘Warm Heart of Africa.’

Spreading HIV/AIDS message later than the virus-the endangered lives

“HIV is like fire, if you do not stroke a fire it will die out. However, fire would not die off it is continually given dry firewood,” founder and father of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda

Since the advent of HIV/AIDS in Malawi in 1983, the virus continues to spread at a rocket pace with people of all sectors dancing to the tunes of the pandemic in one way or the other.

Good riddance water tears, welcome wind smiles-Malawi electricity woes

Kamkwamba on his wind mill

It is 7.30 pm. I am home and writing an assignment on my computer which is due in the next two days.
This location is in the southern part of Lilongwe city, CCDC to be precise. The area is habituated by the people who are mostly civil servants. People who year-in and year-out tussle with the country’s leadership pleading for better wages.

Our house is a small one with only two bedrooms and without a kitchen. But it manages to accommodate the four of us; me, my father, a young brother and sister. We managed to divide the sitting room with a mat to make it a three bed-roomed house.