stumbled across this:
Malawi Travel Guide and Bicycle Touring Guide
Not very detailed though. The south is less hilly than the north. Ok.
Chinese restaurant in downtown Blantyre in Malawi.
(BTW, this is a Chiperoni.org Internet Marketing experiment….
If you read this blog post and then end up going to eat at this BT restaurant, please tell the owners where you first heard about it…)
stumbled across this:
Wikipedia in Chitumbuka
I spent a couple of sunny, winter days in Malawi’s biggest city, visiting family and meeting friends.
I’ve started uploading some of my snapshots to Flickr. More to come as I sift thru the GBs of data.
Travel was uneventful, except for the fact that my luggage took 6 days to arrive in Blantyre. It […]
Bennett has listed an overview of Malawi radio stations:
MBC Radio 1 (state broadcaster)
MBC Radio 2 FM (state broadcaster)
Capital FM
Power 101 FM (Provides live internet streaming)
Radio Maria Malawi (Provides 24 hr live internet streaming from Malawi. Currently my fave, because it brings me closer home when I am outside Malawi.)
Star FM
Zodiak Radio Station
Trans-World Radio Malawi
CFC Radio […]
Monire monire! Muli uli?
Tobias Kumwenda has started a blog to teach Tumbuka ( via Global Voices):
The mission of this weblog is to teach those people who are not ChiTumbuka speakers located across the world, but have developed passion to learn this language.
A great idea. Keep up the good work!
See also Wikipedia:
The Tumbuka language is […]
There’s a CNN TV report on the shortage of qualified medical personnel in Malawi. I zapped into it yesterday. It shows the dire situation at Mulanje District Hospital and in a rural dispensary. They interviewed a volunteer doctor from Uganda, a midwife who works in rural villages, a couple of Malawian doctors that are working […]
and Lujeri Tea Estates in an interview with guardian.co.uk:
My favourite hotels are…
Locally run guesthouses. I stay in many around the world, but recently I was in the tea estates of Malawi and stayed at the Satemwa Guesthouse in Thyolo (00 265 1473 256; satemwa.com) and Lujeri Lodge (00 265 8 854 894). It was so […]
I noticed a new website on Malawi: http://malawiweb.net/
browsing aimlessly thru my Malawi photos…
While googling “porters race” I found this:
Rogue Training Systems, a health and fitness company in Austin, Texas, is giving Malawian runners the chance to run Austin’s AT&T Marathon in February 2008.
Heavy rains are causing the Zambezi and the Shire to flood.
Here’s a BBC report:
Heavy floods have also destroyed homes and crops, displacing thousands of people in southern and central Malawi.
The Malawian government is warning people to relocate from flood-prone areas, but many have been reluctant to leave their farms.
Another Malawi blog I’d like to share with you:
Dr Khumbo Kalua writes about his studies and work as a Senior Eye Specialist in Blantyre.
Google Book Search on chiperoni:
The climate is tropical and monsoonal with a wet season (November to May) and a dry season (May to November). The dry season is mostly cool but hot and humid prior to the first rain. Maritime influences ameliorate the dry season in the Shire Highlands with periods of light, misty drizzle, […]
The International Herald Tribune writes:
29. MALAWI
Blame Madonna. Safarigoers tended to overlook Malawi, but that has changed since she began her effort to adopt a 1-year-old boy from this tiny African country that lies within the Great Rift Valley. Next July, the luxury lodge Pumulani (www.pumulani.com) is set to open 10 villas on spectacular Lake Malawi, […]
Found this interesting read at Times Online:
A voyage round my father
A daughter follows her father’s footsteps to Mount Mulanje.
Page three of the article includes travel tips.
Malawi is Africa as it once was, so there are no vast luxurious holiday compounds and few sumptuous lodges to insulate you from the masses.
Here are a couple of links […]
Remember I wrote about the villagers in northern Malawi that climb an ant hill to get GSM reception?
Looks like Soyapi saved the newspaper article and passed it on to Mike:
Ant hill phone booth
(Insert comment on power of blogging, impossible is nothing, etc.)
Article on the continuing brain drain in the health sector of Malawi.
Some excerpts:
Official figures show around 120 registered nurses have migrated to Britain and the United States alone every year in the last decade with the health ministry unable to even begin to match the wages on offer abroad.
Malawi currently has only 56.4 nurses and […]
Interesting read:
Cy on his Malawi experiences
The contrast between rural and urban areas in Malawi is huge. I remember an article I read (probably The Nation or The Daily Times) during my last stay, on how people in a remote village in the northern region near Rumphi can get reception for their mobile phones if they […]
Howard French, senior writer at the New York Times on:
New Power in Africa: Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
The Malawi Investment Private Agency (MIPA) lists various costs associated with setting up a business.
Unfortunately I don’t see a date so it’s hard to say if these figures are up-to-date or not.
Here’s my comment I submitted a couple of minutes ago at Climb to the Stars on Most People Are Multilingual (cos I’m not sure if my comment wasn’t gobbled):
In southern Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, SA) most people are multi-lingual with varying levels of language competency in at least 3 languages.
For example in Malawi, children […]
Capital FM is uploading its daily morning show to the web:
The only early morning radio show in Malawi with a complete range of the latest news, views and interviews from across the country. You can now listen to daily recordings of Daybreak Malawi Online and keep abreast with what is going on in Malawi.
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