BRUTAL 2011

Wheeew! What a year this has been… 2011,  a year the youth of Malawi have had their slaps, kicks and punches worth some space. A year with loads of real life social, political, spiritual and economical tragedies. This has been a year that will go down in history as the genesis of a shake up or a fall of a Malawi that stood on her toes since independence.  

Indeed, 2011 wraps up its existence as a year which, of all the two plus decades of centuries of Satan’s biblical existence, the rebel of God resorted to take refuge in the warm heart of Africa and cause hell. Probably as Malawians we have made the environment befit the devil, may be hell is a little colder than here that Satan is afraid of freezing there.

Sometime we had a flag that had a rising sun, but with the ‘rapid’ development under the ‘wise and dynamic’ leadership, the ‘modification’ of dragging the rising into the whole sun blazing in the middle of the protected cloth was just the right thing to do to champion Malawi’s success. Now the temperatures are high to the point of attracting the devil…lol.

Enough has been said about the fuel crisis. To the youth, the long queues trailing filling stations countrywide are nothing but a reasonable demonstration of how dry our country has become. Actually, some jokes making rounds in town say that ‘fanzi imapeza nanzi mwachangu pa flames kusiyana ndi gasolina’  that is to say ‘people easily find hemp in Malawi than fuel. So, the illegal stuff is readily available than the legalized lot… Hmmm.

Forex is another kick below the belt that has made Malawi dance.

But in as far as youth affairs are concerned, the bloodshed of July 20/21 is our pillar. Surely, we still mourn the young lives lost innocently and that blood will continue to haunt mother Malawi if sanity refuses to breathe.