Highway M-1 from Blantyre to Lilongwe is long, straight and by African standards a good, well-marked tarmac road. Only south of the mountainous area near Dedza does the road climb into the mountains and present the traveler with some sharp, snake like curves and turns as it crosses the mountain range south and west of […]
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Zuze Moyo – A Solitary Man in the Dowa Valley It is sometimes strange how your eyes will catch on a single person in a crowded place. Something about them gets your attention; perhaps their attractiveness, or perhaps their outgoing personality, or maybe it is simply because they are the only person directly in
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Because of its population that is higher than most other communities, and with its proximity to the capital city, the Mponela Trading Center enjoys a wide variety of local outlets and trading booths. Dried fish arrive from the lake several times a week, sugar and other cooking supplies and foodstuff arrive with the same frequency
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Salima District Capital and Hospital Although no evidence of its past is visible in the present the name “Salima” can drive cold chills down the back of even a novice historian. It was from Salima, during the dark days of the slave trade, that thousands upon thousands of people were sold into slavery and
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We have traveled approximately 80 kilometers from Blessings Hospital in Lumbadzi and we are nearing the east side of the old trading center of Salima. This area along the lake was once a notorious slave-trading center, but today it is a quiet crossroads community on the road from Lilongwe to Senga Bay, or the
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We came from America to work in a rural hospital in Malawi. Since our team was already working in the trading center of Mponela we decided it would be the rural hospital in this community where we would set up shop. This way we could learn firsthand what it was like in one of
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Not All Days Bring Success Editor’s Note: The following story played out in the largest hospital in the capital city of Lilongwe, Kamuzu Central Hospital. Reporting is Renee, a 3rd year Australian Medic Student. She had come to Malawi for the summer to work with the Malawi Project. Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), is a 1,000-bed,
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At first no one noticed the boy standing beside the road to Lilongwe. Then all of a sudden just as they were passing the spot where he was standing everyone did a double take. “What was that,” seemed to erupt from nearly every voice at the same moment. The question really did not need
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The night sky has embraced the tiny African village in the same way a traditional wrap crowds out the night cold from around a woman’s body. The sounds of the villages long ago abated and everyone has retreated to their huts near the center of the village area. All is quiet now except
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In 1949 Peter Seeger and Lee Hays released a song in America called “If I had a Hammer”. The song did not climb high on the charts until Peter, Paul and Mary recorded it again over a decade later. Their version of the folk song in August 1962 became a Top 10 hit. Since that
