tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19899930594096592662024-02-08T11:46:10.838-08:00Youth and Realityrogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-38337298921679836902012-12-17T05:22:00.000-08:002012-12-17T05:22:07.253-08:00BLIND LOYALTY<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day in, day out the marathon of domestic politics gets louder, lousier, wilder and wider…what have you. The noisy heads are getting majestic in their vocal cords, with insults, recycled manifesto, counterfeit hopes as well as empty talk furnished with so much cosmetic truths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swarms of a great chunk of the society throng to hear such heads doing their political rock and roll via public rallies, functions as well as chameleon projects that are hatched each time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These atmospheres, coupled with a chain of other choruses heavily inflate every other politician with massive hope that they will form the next government just like that. Actually it is this flattery that stimulates politicians and wonna-bes to dig deeper and larger in their pockets, just to palm oil such pale following.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately, it is the recycled old generation bunch of politicians that is so much intoxicated with this kind of fashion in their political adventures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Signs and symptoms of vintage recycled political heads include; giving handouts, castigating critics, intimidating opponents, blaming failures on others, fault finding (without offering solutions), mudslinging propaganda, preaching non-existent manifesto etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I trust youngsters venturing into politics will not inhale this sort of infection that ultimately rewards individuals/families other than Malawians across the board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth, most of the ‘leaders’ in contaminating domestic politics with dominance lack a vibrant moral character that has strong conviction beyond winning office. Malawi needs a leader that will do what is right without minding the next polls. This is a gap that our society has inherited from wherever hence ‘politicians’ take advantage of the same to eclipse deserving ‘leaders’ to carry the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hate it or love it but Malawi needs a leader and not a politician. You see, a closer look at politicians reveals that beyond resolutions, policies, promises, spiced speeches, there is very little action hence continued staggering as well as trial and error governing styles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Away with blind loyalty!</span><br />
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rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-10854699156210823642012-12-17T05:06:00.002-08:002012-12-17T05:06:22.633-08:00CYBER HATE<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear young people, are we that prone to hate that we fail to contain the heat thereby resorting to firing missiles via social networks on the internet?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several pages have been and are being created on social networks solely on a purpose of defaming and assassinating characters in our society. Well, there is freedom of expression yes but surely it comes with a great deal of responsibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The command of language, writing style and presentation of such ‘hate news’ is likely attributed to young people. It is you and me who are major suspects in this cyber hate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come on fellow youth, do we really have that time to waste just like that by driving ‘hate news’ and championing castigation or gossip? If we have that nose for news and able to run news breweries, why don’t we invest that time and ideas in establishing real things that would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inevitably uplift our economic status as well as elevating the potential of our brains in the society? Why don’t we get down to business and learn the technical know-how of coming up with credible news?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hate driven stories are just as bad as gossip because they are both inspired by discomfort with ‘success’ of the person in subject. The more we invest our time talking about others, the more the others invest their time in uplifting their lives thereby registering continued success, leaving the gossipers weeping and wailing even more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What kind of legacy are we building in this generation? Hate is retrogressive and a wastage of time. In today’s world, we need to create more friends than enemies since the world is built on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">networking, the power of friendship is fast becoming an order of the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stop cyber hate, be real and make life the life worth a living.</span><br />
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rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-30949345371292152412012-10-01T23:26:00.002-07:002012-10-01T23:26:57.945-07:00THE CHASOWA MYSTERY<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s been a dozen of months since the tragic slaughter of one dubbed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">youth activist in the aftermath of his life, Robert Chasowa, a student </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the University of Malawi’s Polytechnic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young as he was, the young man is best placed to articulate the hows, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whats and whys surrounding his death. The rest of what we hear is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">either distorted or compromised truths, no wonder, despite </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">presidential interventions, information to solve the Chasowa demise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mystery still looks reluctantly uncomposed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, this reluctance is not a surprise since politics is involved. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By now, the country should have known the truth about late Chasowa but </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">alas, the revelation is taking longer than forever at the pace it is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the nation sleeping on the truth? Probably we cannot rule out the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">probability of applying political tactics and timing in readiness of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waking up and disclosing the Chasowa death puzzle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Typical of indigenous politicians, taking advantage of every situation </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘kokela’</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i.e. advance their political mileage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth, the death of Chasowa ought to be a tangible reflective </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reality in our lives. So much pros and cons are attached but we have </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be cautiously objective as we carry out that reflection. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among other things: be careful when dealing with ‘politicians’ or </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">indulging in ‘politics’, be transparent in such dealings if anything </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(with no underground elements attached), be vigilant in your cause </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with utmost determination, focus and will power bearing in mind that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">short-cuts to glory cut the glory short at times…so much more could </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">possibly flow in addition, subtraction, division or indeed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">multiplication of such elements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the family of Chasowa: behold, your beloved son did not die in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vain, his blood will continue haunting his butchers until justice </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prevails (no matter how long it takes –with or without politics).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rest in peace brother Robert Chasowa!</span><br />
rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-44840045507426247142012-09-13T23:33:00.001-07:002012-09-13T23:33:51.547-07:00CRY MY BELOVED UNIMA!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The giant University of Malawi (UNIMA) is back in the news majoring in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">strikes, demonstrations and running battles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rewind 2011: Memories are still fresh when the struggle for academic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">freedom made rust grow across the corridors of UNIMA leaving thousands </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of young people clueless as their academic life was heavily strangled. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sad, brutal reality that was; characterized by top arrogance and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fast-forward 2012: Government’s lack of a comprehensive dosage to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lecturers’ salary hike demands, students allowances’ hike as well as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">support staff perks’ top-up are exciting extravagant mess to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">already bruised and crippled academic calendar of UNIMA. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dilly-dallying tactics applied are more of the same kwasa-kwasa </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that made the giant UNIMA dance and gather rust for over half a year </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in 2011. Much as the discussions and negotiations are a step towards </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sanity, parties involved must not overlook the fact that such time </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">consuming measures only slap the helpless students with great </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">injustice. Time keeps ticking and time lost is never recovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reality check 2011/12: UNIMA academic calendar is battered too much </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that it is constantly and unreasonably abnormal. The more efforts are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made to inject sanity into its recovery, the more new issues spout </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">choking it inside out, forcing the calendar back to its knees, limping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for energy. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government needs to jack up and offer fast solutions that ultimately </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">saves and serves young minds in the corridors of the University of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi and those that are pending to join the pool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother Malawi you cannot afford to compromise academic excellence of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the nation, hear the cries of UNIMA as its students are gnashing teeth </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in search of academic sanity. Remember, the highest cost of education </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is not getting one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">End of piece: Do not ignore the shepherd lest the sheep be scattered </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and lost. All stakeholders involved must stop the drama at UNIMA as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">soon as possible and save young people from another academic tragedy.</span></div>
rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-29404367340500956862012-09-04T01:49:00.003-07:002012-09-04T01:49:29.226-07:00LIFE AFTER BIG BROTHER<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three months of booze, crazy wildness, verbal cross fires and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">infatuation are now gone with South African Keagan pocketing a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whooping U$300, 000, humbling the rest of the participants in the Big </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brother Star from across Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the rest of the young ladies and gentlemen who sniffed the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">smell of the much hunted dollar included Malawi’s own Wati, whose </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">accomplice, Nafe bowed down to the heat before the boiling finale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far so good, Wati lived the maximum days in the house. If there </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were only six winners, surely Wati should have been coughing, smiling, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">laughing and stinking dollars. But alas, the opposite is true save </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">alone for the fact that he came back with consolation packages (some </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disclosed, some best reserved for the Big Brother traditional secret).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome back to the real world Wati where booze is a casual past time </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">activity and not necessarily a dosage to get rid of stress. Malawi has </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">had a fair share in Big Brother representation but sadly the life of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these fellows eclipses with their exit on the screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By being in the limelight and with an influential a continental trade </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mark, graduates of the Big Brother house could better be leading role </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">models of young people in various spheres. Young people in the country </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">need motivation, inspiration, guidance, hope and so much more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine if the local participants of the Big Brother house formed a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">club and collectively come up with proposals of initiatives that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">centre of addressing a cross section of social, economical and indeed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">political issues that affect youth today. This could be amazingly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">massive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For instance, Wati be advocating against alcohol abuse; Code an </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">advocate of talent use; Hazel for girls’ adolescence sanity and power</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; Mzamo for anti-smoking campaign; Lomwe for clean and peaceful </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">content of urban music; Zein for entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-74975771522067798592012-08-10T03:02:00.004-07:002012-08-10T03:02:48.895-07:00SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is common knowledge that our cultures have abused the element of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">respect to silence young people. The youth are seen and not given an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ear to be heard. Elders want young people only to speak when spoken to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this systematic oppression squeezed youth to some mute corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the landscape is fast changing and if views posted on social</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">networks like facebook and twitter are anything to go by then Malawi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is breeding a political revolution. This verbal revolution depicts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">patriotic young Malawians from all corners of the globe debating and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">demanding accountability from those in power with naked openness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social media activism is life in the country, thumbs up to the youth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for that! If the same spirit could be practiced in real life that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">definitely youths in the country would be graduating from passive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">observers to active participants in the democratic political dialogue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and progress of mother Malawi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most definitely, freedom of expression is flourishing via the social</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">networks. Social networks are key in the dispensation of information</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and youth are proudly championing this. Freedom and access to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youngsters, it is high time we apply the same energy depicted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in social media activism to practical reality and help fuelling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youth, let us have the humility to see the greatness that lies within us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch out… most of these indigenous political leaders are scared of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">proactive, intellectual and morally upbeat youth, and they resort to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">abuse the youth that could be persuaded with the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets us not be silent anymore about the state of our nation, democracy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as well as leadership and government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More fire to social media activism e.g. on Facebook: My Malawi My</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Others.</span></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-25435858051064022492012-07-23T06:12:00.002-07:002012-07-23T06:12:18.210-07:00WASTED RESOURCE: YOUTH<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is thousands of energetic and able Malawian youth trying to make ends meet as soldiers of armies out of Africa. They are not there by choice or chance, they are there to survive and establish their respective economic goals. These young men and women have opted to bolt out of Malawi and do the very same work that they could have done if recruited under our national army.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That alone prompts a question: What is the problem locally? There should be many factors but most of all, the deal they get serving in the UK army, for example, is much more lucrative. It is attractive so to say that these young people forget about the risk of dodging bullets on the front line in fierce battle places like Afghanistan. And instead of creating environments to maintain or attract youth of such courage, our country seems to be at ease to waste its incredible resources just like that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of intoxicating the young minds with politics and banditry, it should be a priority of our leaders to put to good use of the youth. It is a fact that youth are able!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, youth should be propelled by the same courage of braving live bullets elsewhere to utilize their knowledge and invest in the very society they come from. They have to amass the same amount of courage to defeat challenges that betray lives of most young people in the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To all the youth, young leaders, professionals as well as youth organizations: let us collectively voice out our concerns and act with effective networks to facilitate advocacy for policy change on issues affected us in our daily lives and the wider society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi, do not take the youth for granted… youth are the needed resource to your success and prosperity.</span><br />rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-37178811783256560522012-06-26T05:49:00.001-07:002012-06-26T05:49:29.057-07:00POLICE ALCOHOL MESS<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is lots of fun, craziness as well as insanity associated with the use of alcohol. Some people drink and a lot more get drunk. Sadly, our society seems to be in an alcoholic ecstasy that is fast becoming an order of the day. This mess has gone down alarmingly without sparing the under aged.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From sachets, packets to bottles… a number of under aged youth have been drown into these.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recent technical ‘ban’ on sachets is at least a welcome development but government can surely do better than just over taxing the sachets. The problem is not the ‘under’ pricing the product but enforcing the law that bars drinking alcohol to the under 18 masses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This law has been there for as long as my memory takes me but its implementation is kind of absurd. Much as age is difficult to determine but the police can do a fair assessment to arrest culprits via storming bars, clubs, parties plus any other ‘alcoholicious’ avenues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The youth need to be spared of the alcohol jazz! Government has to be duty bound by being instrumental in enforcing as well as upholding the law. Malawi cannot afford to have a society that is drunk to the roots.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The civil society is equally vital in this crusade to develop effective programs aimed at combating alcohol use among juveniles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth; take it upon ourselves to sober up. We can have fun without alcohol just like some that have alcohol without fun. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the JB's administration; move to invest in young people. Most youth drink out of frustration than entertainment. They drop from school or leave formal education system without any hope to earn income.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi; lets us collectively help reduce underage drinking/abuse by among other things monitoring activities of youth and decrease their access to alcohol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only if we had national identity cards!!! It could have been quite an easy exercise to accomplish.</span><br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-6168644682961410582012-06-21T00:19:00.001-07:002012-06-21T00:19:11.975-07:00SEC 65 SAGA: Who Is Fooling Who?<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seasons come, seasons go but at times the status of affairs is so resistant to change that change itself finds ridicule as drama of reality unfolds despite a belief that every season exists for a reason. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whenever the country’s national assembly convenes, its meetings are spiced and flavored by high class comedies and tragedies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether this characterization is a work of some political architect or else a self dug pit of mixed fortunes, well your guess is as good or as bad as mine since the catapulted question undeniably generates a meander of answers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi is slowly but surely building its history on pillars of hardcore feud between pro-government and pro-opposition parliamentarians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least when some incidents occur more than once and that their occurrence replicates previous happenings, surety and assurance hatches to confirm there is history in the making in the offing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surely, both opposition and government parliamentarians have sober points and agendas as weighed by their national, political and individual school of thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both parties are right –no need to be pro or against this conclusion because wrongs are often miscalculated rights.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cloud of uncertainty continues to hover over Malawi’s political horizons and this atmosphere is unfortunately unsafe in determining political forecasts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For engines of democracy to be propelled normally, opposition is a necessary component of the driving force of government –simply put, government needs opposition and vice versa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the two factions have parallel ideologies, visions and interests which hopefully are similar or congruent by the fact that they all target to satisfy national interests for the good of Malawi and Malawians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is as disgusting as ever to always witness the beef between government and opposition in the national assembly as the expense of the taxpayers’ money.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If government takes the opposition for granted then definitely parliament will be the only instrumental tool the opposition will engage to plot a sound revenge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the opposition takes government for a ride because of the muscle of its majority in parliament then obviously the risk triggered will see government chewing bits and pieces of the constitution as it grasps to catch a breath for survival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unless mended through proper procedures and channels, the constitution is not subject to be reduced to a document that falls short of what it stipulates and summons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our parliamentarians are a bunch of schooled individuals that obviously recognize that violence is a language that people drought of words engage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schooled as they are, of course with a variety of levels, parliamentarians are a caliber of leaders that cannot ‘capsize’ in parallel political bridges or indeed democratic potholes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is full of mixed fortunes that some realities are hard to swallow but as a sound and sober society, it is high time Malawi accepts reality and quickly re-assembles itself to avoid repercussions and replications.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind every problem there is always a solution alongside prevention.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After bowing down honorably to pave way for the approval of the 2007/08 national budget last year, opposition MPs deemed that as a pre-requisite to the implementation of the highly touted, anticipated, debated and controversial Section 65 after being assured by government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The budget was finally passed despite some ministries emerging as causalities of political beef resulting into cartooned allocations –some as low as K1.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If what is being witnessed in parliament today is anything to go by, then may be government merely paid a lip service to smuggle the national budget as evidenced by its reluctance and dilly-dallying in the implementation of Section 65.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One funny factor about law is that it does not work to satisfy one’s advantages but that it satisfies fundamental principles for the good of the nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As government strives day and night to win favours of some sentences scribed in the constitution, opposition parties are perusing the same pages in search of similar sentences that work to their advantage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the day, the constitution remains the same undefiled, raped or abused document that reigns supreme beyond reasonable doubt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the political cross fire between government and opposition MPs will only be beneficial to mother Malawi’s hardly won democracy if it is justified within the parameters of the law.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise going out of constitutional bounds whilst desperately seeking to resolve the current political impasse would only be a short term measure that might surely cost the nation lots if its implications back fire, may be tomorrow or the day after…not exactly but surely one day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As bonafide Malawians keep their fingers crossed to witness what tomorrow brings in the political spheres, one dominant puzzle continues irritate upstairs: Who is fooling who?</span><br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-22861298434901694142012-06-18T05:01:00.001-07:002012-06-18T05:01:20.847-07:00BANKNOTES’ MODELLING<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi has pimped its bucs to a slimmer, slender and remarkably sexy size decorated with quite a variety of faces this time around, away from the traditional John Chilembwe Kodak moment.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Views, pro and against these new notes are understandably a mixed bag. But all in all, the only option left is to handle the change exactly the way it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, are these bank notes a make up for the absence of a heroes acre? Quite a number of us would be tempted to think that way if the faces printed on the new bank notes are anything to go by. Surely, Malawi boasts of bundles of heroes, alive or otherwise, and these fellows cannot all be accommodated on banknotes or else the central bank has to make up for the other ‘deserving’ faces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, don’t we have youthful heroes recognized at national level to qualify for banknote modeling? Or does one have to graduate into grey hair to win favours for a possible feature on the notes? Search me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First things first, it is high time the country took pride in its heroes and developed a proper heroes acre or else the heroes ‘league’ will keep competing for space on banknotes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young generation should be equally recognized and this will as well instill an incredible amount of motivation, hope and patriotism amongst young people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much as all of us cannot qualify to be heroes at national level, let those that deserve it be accorded the right honour for the betterment of mother Malawi as well as preservation of our history which cannot, obviously, be just reduced to banknotes’ modeling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its our nation, let us recognize our people, their talent, achievements and together we can build the pride of Malawi and marry yesterday, today to tomorrow. </span> <br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-24832240500166234762012-05-31T01:36:00.004-07:002012-05-31T01:36:41.952-07:00PROVE THE APPROVAL<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much talk has gone wide and wild, talking youth empowerment from all angles. Quite a sound welcome development and the rest rests on the youthful generation to prove the approvals. Talk without action is empty noise, better file-archived to gather dust and face the wrath of passive reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth, it is time to fight our own war. It is time to stamp authority. It is time to stand on our toes and prove that it is us that are crucial in colouring dreams of this nation into real life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trust me, life will never be as pretty if we just sit phwiii, ndwiiii and watch things stumble drastically. The sweat we shed to chase our individual dreams is enough an ocean to move mountains hindering national development.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, it is time we collectively break the barriers and build this nation. It is no longer about ‘me’, the better or best thinking ought to be about ‘us’. A great deal of the senior generation wickedly and purposely ruined our youthful identity so that they continue calling the shots, even if it means making lives the citizenry upside down. No ways, no time to look back for this is the time to build! This is the time to establish our youthful legendary trademark in the society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have seen so much tears, so much injustice, so much nepotism, so much corruption, so much abuse of public resources, so much bogus popcorn appointments, so much malnutrition in public service, so much diarrhoea in governance, so much accomplished executive arrogance, so much credible police brutality… It has been so much for mother Malawi… so much for this generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately, this ‘so much’ is the right experience needed to inject sanity into the whole system and erect a testament of change. Change that will make mother Malawi jive a prosperity dance for enough price has been paid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth, we cannot buy authority, we can’t even make it cause we can only be the authority…If isn’t in our spirit, then it is nowhere.</span><br />rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-35068550026214477402012-04-17T01:46:00.005-07:002012-04-17T01:46:46.803-07:00DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations have rained cats and dogs, back to back with condolences of course! Youth and reality follows suit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madam President, youth want to be recognised, youth want to be part and parcel of the decision makers, youth want to be instrumental in the success of social, economic and political development, youth want to deserve what they are worth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young people in the country are fed up with politics and appointments of appeasement, nepotism based on tribe, region, family etc. Youth have been oppressed and abused for way to long. The great potential of Malawi’s youth has been ridiculously undermined and wasted due to selfish and pocket based politics. Youth have witnessed sad realities. Youth have been coached and blindfolded with some handful kwachas by big kahunas to flash out machetes in broad daylight, ready to slaughter the hard earned teenage democracy. As if that was not enough, authorities that be, farted a bunch of orders that rendered junior police officers with no choice apart from pulling the trigger that mercilessly caused bloodshed… July 20 scores highly on this aspect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madam President, you are the mother of the land and it’s the hope and prayer of many that youth will flourish under your laps. Recognise the youth, establishing a national youth day would be a step as it would enable an open forum where young people across the country would be privileged to interact with leaders and commemorate their essence in this great peaceful republic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the young that are flexible enough to uphold that politics is not business, but a channel of resolving national problems and pimping development for the betterment of the 14 million plus people in the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youth have fresh and comprehensive incredible ideas. Young people are open to suggestions unlike the most of the elder generation currently dominating power.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madam President, this is your chance to hatch a legacy with the youth. This is your time, all eyes on you mama.</span><br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-77850836420713330082012-03-26T06:37:00.000-07:002012-03-26T06:37:26.799-07:00FEAR FACTOR<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday is gone, its hangover is the memories we cherish. Today is painful, probably because of we
swallowed a bitter pill. Tomorrow is surely coming. Let the hope for a better
society and a better Malawi be overwhelmingly refreshed as often as the sun
keeps rising in the east trailing all the way to the west.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Times have changed. Together we can mitigate the course of
time by engaging both long and short term factors. Youngsters, we are a
generation that calls on the government to fear the people if liberty and
democratic principles are to be upheld because the opposite of this pattern
(i.e. people fearing the government) only classifies those in authority as oppressors.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government is our servant and not the master. Whatever
government’s activities are, that is all bound to be accountable in the eyes of
the 14 million plus people in this country since flow of information is the
concrete currency for democracies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question arises: do we fear our government or the
government fears us? Whatever the answer is, hold it close to the chest. Too much
power corrupts and that equals bad government grows out of too much government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi is not the same. For better or for worse, that is up
to every one of us to conclude. The fear factor is fast raping freedoms and
rights in this country. Freedom is not supposed to be feared, freedom is to be
respected. We must not be scared to exercise democratic rights, we need to be responsible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youth, we cannot afford to lose Malawi to fear. Fear
cannot build this nation, it can only destroy and devalue it. In this age, fear
no longer functions to secure our survival and prosperity otherwise then we are
a sad lot because it is in fear that terrible things happen.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-19877879126750251252012-03-20T00:43:00.000-07:002012-03-20T00:43:03.878-07:00HIGH SCHOOL POLITICS<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The countdown to 2014 is constantly cruising. Not slowed
down a bit by the persistent fuel drought, or even the stumble in forex
malnutrition. Our leaders can tout about their verbal glittering successes and policies
that have unfortunately led this country into deep graveyard reality where the
citizenry is bulldozed into tinted royalty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leadership is not a posh portfolio. Leadership is both a
charisma and a challenge. The issue of nicknames for leaders makes most of us
choke with laughter. I am not being sarcastic but am only undressing reality as
it is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot poke at some <i>big
kahunas</i> or <i>moyas</i> as these names
are protectively condemned and embalmed by the high authority. I would not want
to be in contempt. It reminds of secondary school politics, where captains or
head boys/girls were untouchables. Branding them with any accord contrary to
their taste would be enough a warrant to endless brutal punishments. Such
punishments of intolerance would include digging a sizeable deep pit and
burying the same… all this, just a showcase of authority to silence those with
dissenting views but selfishly disguised as discipline installation measures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The youth know that most heads and captains into the
punitive authoritarian fashion of leadership ended up being accomplished miserable
failures because they were so corrupt by power that they sacrificed focus on
school or leadership to individual witch hunting just to show their might and
power. Sad!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youngsters, who is our leader? Are we tempted to undermine
everything Malawi ever stood for in terms of multiparty democracy? From a
distance, Malawi seems to be in even a greater destabilization spiced by a
beleaguered economy. Is our silence demeaning the cause for which our freedom fighters
sacrificed their lives for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Verily I say unto you, Malawi under the most high God shall
have a new birth of freedom and that fundamental principles of democracy shall
not perish.</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-63090785412387012632012-03-19T02:13:00.003-07:002012-03-19T02:13:42.148-07:00SLOW DOWN MR PRESIDENT<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>‘They have been
insulting me and I have not hit back. If you think am issuing threats, take it
as you like. Enough is enough. I will not accept this nonsense anymore… If
donors are going to criticize that, this is democracy, to hell with you. I have
had enough. If any donor wants to withdraw from this country, let them leave
and go.’</i> His Excellency the president Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, fondly
called ‘the wise and dynamic leader’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of tongues have staggered to get the president’s verbal
wrath straight. Youth are the most confused. Insults and blank insults are
making the younger generation intoxicated with the politics around as well as
the governing style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it not the father himself that equated the rest of us
into chickens and branded some selected others as <i>tiankhwezule</i>? The donors, civil society et al were dubbed stupid by
the same. But Bingu says he has not hit back, probably because criticism is far
from insults. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spare victimisation of the truth by being brutal to reality
at hand, at least some of us remember that the state hastily deported
self-acclaimed Kamuzu’s son, Jumani, who spat a tremendous amount of insults at
Bingu. But the senior Professor Mutharika denies to have hit back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr President, remember that not long ago you were a darling
to many that people even enjoyed playing and dancing to your party anthems in
clubs, cars, homes, parties etc. But fast forward to today, those songs are
dumb and DJs have placed the CDs where they belong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps enough is enough, no wonder the president repeatedly
says ‘he can’t understand Malawians’. Do the so called Malawians understand
their leader anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youngsters, we are privileged to know and realise
that an eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind. Malawi needs to smoke
out the tit-for-tat and shoot to kill ideologies if peace and sanity is to
prevail. Slow down Mr President!</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-16041363576306499382012-02-22T23:20:00.004-08:002012-02-22T23:20:56.864-08:00INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTION<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world keeps changing, constantly and sometimes rapidly
than the way it spins its orbit crawl around the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lives today are quite dynamic and suffice to say, young
minds are the most instrumental and capable capitals to survive in this state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, we need to exploit our potentials as far as our
brains and skills are capable of taking us. We could be the best we can be if
the best in us could be utilised fully. Yes, the world today, to a greater
extent favours jacks of all trades. The job scarcity traffic could easily melt
away and get decongested if young people gather diversified competence,
qualifications and references.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all this, the question of lack of financial muscle comes
as a quick tempting setback to discourage us from pursuing this
diversification… But hey, always remember that brains are the capital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young ladies and gentlemen, before we think of getting
frustrated of our success in life ‘cause of money, let us give our brains ample
time and enough food for thought to stun us with breakthroughs worth a
testimony. The brain is the prime resource that is ably able to breed piles and
piles of competent rags-to-riches’ stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surely, in this time and age, we need to be morally upright
intellectual prostitutes so that no matter how high or low the tides of this
life swell or shrink; young people should overcome the status quo and stand
out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irrespective of our career interests and prospects, our
brains are capable and ready to explore other intellectual avenues. Our brains
are not limited, whether in arts, academics et al.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intellectual prostitution gets the brain paid for what it is
worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear youngsters, we cannot live in denial that everybody in
this life of ours, was or is an intellectual prostitute, or will become one
sometime for survival and success.</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-66000198838199437472012-02-12T22:52:00.000-08:002012-02-12T22:52:27.682-08:00AN AGENDA FOR ACTION<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the going gets tough, the tough gets going basically
because in tough times we get acclimatized to the atmosphere and in the
process, measures aimed at helping us to mitigate the same are hatched thereby
by getting rid of the toughs. This may not be as easy as it reads but still, it
is a sober possibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is no more gossip that Malawi is infected and affected by
socio-economic ailments. This awkward moment has made life incredibly
unbearable for millions of people in the country, mostly the youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good percentage of the youth are not basking in the sun of
illiteracy, hence the very reason life is so painful to a greater extent since
the pain is generated from the long wasted years of searching for non-available
jobs after school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many youth are being abused and fed with empty hopes in the
name of getting employed yet, there is hardly any job insight or else the jobs
are already reserved for privileged ‘connected’ people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The absence of jobs in a misfiring economy like ours is
suicidal. We cannot keep piling up jobless graduates. That alone is a great
source of frustration to the youth and it contributes to the erosion of
Malawi’s economy. No country with a view to any form of future prosperity would
allow its youths to such wastage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as young people we need to change our mindset; by
migrating from that of job seekers, to job creators; from writing good application
letters and resumes, to writing great business plans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear youngsters, time is up for us to keep waiting for
change because we need to be drivers of change right now. By virtue of being
Malawians, our citizenship alone should knock on our conscious that we must all
work tooth and nail to serve and save our nation.</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-23389333871388723972012-02-07T23:01:00.000-08:002012-02-07T23:01:14.568-08:00ONE YEAR YOUNG<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems like yesterday when Youth and Reality breathed into
life. Throughout this dozen of months, I wholeheartedly attribute its budding
existence to you and that one… yes, I mean you and them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been times when my mind is blank and smoked out
of ideas. But just the moment despair attempts to wipe out my hope, generous
young minds from across the country always bail me out with their ideas. Just
like manna from heaven, I have feasted on the same to keep this column up and
running.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whoever holds on to the belief that the reading culture is
slowly but surely dying among young people in the country needs to renovate
their school of thought because the feedback on Youth and Reality ably proves
that impression incorrect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally, critical minds have helped me grow a great deal
in as far as reasoning, choice and tailoring of words are concerned. I am not
like yesterday, you’ve made my today
like this, and I urge you to keep up so that tomorrow makes the me of today
into another yesterday….surely, that’s would amount to an incredible growth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear youngsters, Youth and Reality aims at making 2012 a
turning point. Youth affairs are at heart as usual and it is in that spirit
that sometime this year, a book, dubbed ‘Youth & Reality’ by yours truly,
is expected to be released. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catch youth and reality every Saturday via The Weekend Nation
newspaper or its website: www.mwnation.com, as well as my blog:
www.rogers-siula.blogspot.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guys, forget not that yesterday was once tomorrow and young
as we are, let us utilise today’s opportunities to get rid of yesterday’s
failures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are the youth, we are the reality and together, we can
make this country, this life and this generation a better one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for the support! More fire.</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-59624264233503354282012-02-06T04:02:00.000-08:002012-02-06T04:02:07.638-08:00ONE VOICE<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A moment of silence… Yes, let us be on mute to reflect on
the stripping spree of women that grabbed mother Malawi by the breasts, sending
her to panic in disbelief of the
decaying morals within our society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That some souls somewhere, in their right frame of mind, woke
up one day and solely live that day to ridiculously undress females in public
is both morally and legally ungrammatical in as far as we proclaim to be
humans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, Malawi is upside down. The decaying socio-economic
and political morals prevailing in the country need re-formatting or else we
risk shutting down Malawi for a while, sending everyone on a vacation to revamp
sanity and sound morals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the top to the bottom of societal levels, everyone has
had a share of going bananas either knowingly or unknowingly because there is
so much politics polluting this country. Politics in families, religious
communities, workplaces, funerals, parties, relationships etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a way, women in the country showcased their no-nonsense
solidarity when they stood up, put across their message and strongly condemned
the undressing spree. That’s the spirit, and let it grow always, not just when
some misguided people cause public disorder on females.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youngsters, learn a thing or two from the reaction of
females! You see, the youth have been abused left, right and centre in Malawi
and there has never been a time when solidarity prevailed for the youth to
speak with one voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of our poverty, miseries and fears to be our common
denominators, they turn to be stimulants of our divisions. The appetite for
quick money has done the youth more harm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If the women did it,
why can the youth speak with one, energetic and sane voice to get across a
message addressing various socio-economic and political abuses/grievances we
face today? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think aloud, no dosing, snoring or sleeping over the abuses young people face. Let’s be
active!</span><o:p></o:p></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-15697838553872485152012-01-23T05:41:00.001-08:002012-01-23T05:41:21.078-08:00MALAWI UPSIDE DOWN<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drama never stops in this nation, the comic and tragic blend of the Malawi theatre nation is raining cats and dogs in political, social, economic, religious and academic circles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does this translate into a wakeup call that leaders and their followers undergo a reasonable circumcision for the nation to come out clean? Surely, problems slapping this country are not what people in the streets talk about. What people are coughing are just effects of the problems. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tell you what, real problems making this country stagger and stumble are deep and unsaid. There’s so much hide and seek in the way the old generation is handling this nation. Actually, most folks in the senior generation are in politics to accumulate profits/wealth and not necessarily to serve the people and build Malawi as they preach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I repeat: Problems making Malawi stagger and stumble are deep and unsaid. Those entrusted with the power to run this country fall short of humility, maturity (to engage teamwork in the administration of their respective portfolios) and they prioritize responsibility of their individual lives by investing so much time and resources into their personal estates at the expense of the suffering millions they govern in the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disgusting blame games and highly inflammable verbal cross fires are the order of the day yet this has no effect to stop the extravagance of those in authority or indeed facilitate debt management, poverty alleviation, creating employment as well as a corrupt free nation. In fact, the more our leaders talk, the more they syphon our reasoning and resources, rendering us to cosmetic hopes for a better tomorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youngsters, Malawi needs virgin leaders to graduate for this misery. A country like ours cannot exist just to live under intense microscope for all the bad reasons. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi, the youth are better, well-equipped, vibrant and stronger to serve and save this country today.</span><br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-51833007007032551952012-01-22T22:35:00.001-08:002012-01-22T22:35:38.263-08:00MARRIAGE RUSH<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every other weekend, it has become more of a norm these days that streets are crowded with well decorated motorcades, screaming choruses of horns, spiced up with stylish zigzag driving antics for those whose cars are doing their thing in a road that has breathing space to accommodate such pomp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The banner ‘Just Married’ pasted on the number plates crowns it all and the rest of the jive takes its way to the reception venues which host the wedding xmas of official marriages. The question of whether some of these weddings are fast tracked because one is already half-way to motherhood/fatherhood in that state will be best reserved at this point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise, quite a number of marriages start as a big and massive celebration characterised by colourful hopes and ambitious dreams of a long happy life together as one body in the name of husband and wife. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, this ‘husbandry’ and ‘wifery’ is fast becoming a commercial exercise that falls short of love and only capitalises on greed and attainment of status. The worst culprits in this scam are the youth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youngsters, marriage is a life-long commitment whose expiry is biblically backed by death… ‘til death doth us part’…hence it has to be treated with the density of seriousness it deserves. It is a fact that the path to a happy and successful is not as easy as saying ‘I-love-you’ and all the lip service.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marriage is not a short term service, marriage is not fashion. Marriage is a vital and fundamental thing that anchors any social system. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marriage rush often times melts the gravity marriage commands. Hate it or love it, marriage is deeply rooted in customs and ideologies of yesterday which we must abide to, failing which all the deliciousness of marriage goes to the dogs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More of the misery of our generation is caused by our own ignorance about ourselves and not stupidity at large.</span><br />
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<br /></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-52437963408738839352012-01-03T00:19:00.000-08:002012-01-03T00:19:34.938-08:00BRUTAL 2011<br />
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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. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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 <i>‘fanzi imapeza nanzi mwachangu pa flames kusiyana ndi gasolina’</i> that is to say ‘people easily find hemp in Malawi than fuel. So, the illegal stuff is readily available than the legalized lot… Hmmm.</div>
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Forex is another kick below the belt that has made Malawi dance.</div>
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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.</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-71188842207891681152011-12-12T03:24:00.000-08:002011-12-12T03:24:18.902-08:00BILLBOARD GOVERNANCE<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this age of competition and the hunger for market share, the old block of politicians in the country no longer want their works to scream. Apparently, it looks like what their works spoke has either dwindled into whispers or has gone dead mute. Typical of the old generation’s swag, blowing their own trumpets is their real thing. Everyone in the elderly league believes they are their own hero and legend in their respective categories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today’s <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">youth</span> are reduced into shadow achievers because of this syndrome. If a youngster scoops good results, the elders hardly appreciate and the best remark to champion that success goes like…’there are no schools these days, school used to be in our time’. Come on, times have changed. Our elders believe in so much hard labour that they castigate the <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">youth</span> for using computers in their school or professional spheres. To the old guards, computers are no better than gadgets that breed laziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have, quite a number of remarkable young people, the likes of Ralph Kasambara, Saulos Chilima, Dr Matthews Mtumbuka, Mike Chilewe, John Mwankhwawa and lots others who have achieved a lot within their <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">youth</span> league. And typical of this generation, these young people (who are role models to a great deal of young people in the country) don’t erect their success or achievements with placards along the highways across the country to tout their CVs. It is people that note and talk about their respective achievements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is commonly uncommon in the older generation as they would rather decorate their talk with a lumpsome of their achievements and as of that falls on deaf ears, they spend millions in erecting massive billboards that basically tout their achievements. In this cash-strapped economy, really? Where are the people to note and talk about these?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youngsters, I echo words by President Bingu wa Mutharika and modify them ‘Let the works of our hands, brains and talents speak for us’.</span></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-80643826277252992932011-12-08T03:33:00.001-08:002011-12-08T03:34:23.961-08:00THE AIDS GENERATION<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">youth of today fall in a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">generation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that has largely been shaken by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aids</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Most of us have not had an experience of an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aids</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suffice to say, we are <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> main players that should be in <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> forefront of mitigating <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> impact of HIV and <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Aids</span>. <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The</span> policy makers ought to realise that <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> efforts in practice against this disease are a minus if <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> youth are not included.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> case in Malawi, <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> HIV/<span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">AIDS</span> epidemic among youth remains largely invisible to adults and to young people themselves.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Programs need to reach out to street children, sex workers, students and other vulnerable youth, including those orphaned by <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">AIDS</span>. Most programs for youth work better when young people help plan and run them. Programs must also find more effective ways to reach parents and other adults who can influence young people's lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stopping HIV and <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">AIDS</span> requires comprehensive strategies that focus on youth. We must not overlook <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> fact that <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span> youth are particularly prone to HIV due to a number of psychological, physical and social attributes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fellow youngsters, it is high time we do away with risky behaviours. <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Aids</span> is a social crisis as well as a problem of individual behaviour, therefore, if we do not take it on ourselves then this <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">generation</span> is bound to be wiped out. A lot of information has been rolled out on HIV and <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Aids</span> but may be, Malawi must realise that education and communication programs must go beyond merely offering information to fostering risk-avoidance skills as well, such as delay of sexual debut, abstinence, and negotiation with sex partners.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HIV and <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">AIDS</span> education should begin early, even before children become sexually active because this <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">generation</span> of ours is dancing highly to <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the</span>tune of sex marketing through magazines, internet, television, music etc.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s act now, this can be a <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">generation</span> of heroes only if we get HIV and <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">AIDS</span> to zero.</span></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989993059409659266.post-42100066165314664602011-11-29T01:47:00.001-08:002011-11-29T01:47:23.069-08:00ACT ON KNOWLEDGE<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">While some young people elsewhere in this same world of ours, in this same country of ours are basking in luxuries and comfort, a great number of youngsters among us are sinking in the depths of poverty, misery, joblessness. These frustrations gang up and choke the very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 20px;">knowledge</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">that is supposed to be the young minds’ capital to defeat the status quo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; line-height: 20px;">Guys, the best weapon we can have to attain our goals and ride high in this life is <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span>. We can cry 24/7 blaming the older generation for not creating jobs, blame them for creating a culture <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> ‘no-employment-without-<wbr></wbr>connections’, bash them for carpet interview recruitments and so <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span>. Fine! But tell you what, sometimes the more we cry the more the things remain the same or indeed get worse.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; line-height: 20px;">Let this generation be a generation of action <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span>. Yes, the same <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span> that propels our competence to vie for jobs could be the same tool that could propel us into employers. Fellow youth, we are so rich with <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span> and it is sarcastically sad that we sit <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> the same <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span> that it gets rusty with unending complaints. Time to do something <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> the <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span> we have gained is now and we will leave a legacy as a proactive generation that transformed this country into a nation of achievers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; line-height: 20px;">It’s up to you and me to make attempts either individually or collectively to ensure we are prepared and well equipped to face the challenges of today and the unknown future of tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; line-height: 20px;">The world is rolling fast <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> a super highway and suffice to say, humankind is at its vibrancy intellectually, physically and morally during the youth age.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; line-height: 20px;">Fellow youngsters, let these energies be utilised to <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">act</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on</span> the vast amount of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">knowledge</span> we have, otherwise we will be left with a generation branded ‘wasted’. Our destiny lies in our youth.</span></div>rogers.siulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664021920184582237noreply@blogger.com0