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Archive for May 17th, 2008

Friendly business

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Homo Urbanus

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 [...]

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