“There is no greater gender issue than water,” Mrs. Seodi White, National Coordinator for Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust, told me. “If only Malawi paid as much attention to women as it does to roads, we would be getting somewhere.” Malawi’s roads are indeed quite impressive, with most of the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Women and Water
Posted in Kenya, Malawi on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Generalizations and Ruminations
Posted in Kenya, Malawi on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are a few things on which I must reflect, or ruminate, before I go any further with this blog.
Writing/Blogging…I am writing this blog to share and inform; connect people to information, ideas, problems, and solutions; and to invite comments, questions, and criticism. Writing this blog took some serious convincing and urging from friends, [...]
Malawi and HIV/AIDS
Posted in Malawi on May 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Friday I had a meeting at the National AIDS Commission of Malawi, housed in a beautiful, albeit ridiculously out of place building in Lilongwe that is made entirely of green glass. The NAC was established by the Malawian government in 2001 to provide overall leadership and coordination of the national response to HIV and [...]
Friendly business
Posted in Malawi on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bridge connecting the markets in Lilongwe, Malawi
Wyson Titus is a good businessman. Walking towards Old Town in Lilongwe, Wyson said hello and started strolling along side of me. We chatted a bit, about where I’m from and where he was from, and I learned that he was an “artist” who sold postcards mainly [...]
Blantyre Big Bullets vs. Lilongwe Silver Strikers
Posted in Malawi on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I happened to catch the launch of the 2008 TNM Super League, Malawi’s professional football (soccer) league. The match was between the Blantyre Big Bullets and the Lilongwe Silver Strikers, which hail from the two largest cities in the country. How about those names?!?! Hilarious.
The match was packed with hordes or [...]
Homo Urbanus
Posted in Malawi on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last year marked the first time in history that the majority of the world lived in a city or town. Humans are no longer a rural species, and every day at least 190,000 people are added to urban areas. But of the greater than 3 billion urban dwellers, at least one billion [...]
pamoja
Posted in Kenya, Malawi on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Kiswahili, pamoja means together.
Together, we can accomplish anything. Alone, you, or I, can accomplish very little. True in just about every domain of life, but particularly salient, necessary really, for work in global health and development.
The title comes from three motives: 1) It’s Swahili, a tribute to Kenya, my first introduction to and love [...]
