I have been thinking of creating a Social bookmarking site devoted to news and blogs about Malawi since last year. Early this year, I acquired the malawisoc.com domain with one year hosting for a meager US$9.95, courtesy of  the Siteground Special offer for customers and friends. I, however, could not find time to put things together.

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Every year, the Malawi Society of Japan, a group of former Japanese volunteers to Malawi, organizes a Nsima eating party, in liaison with the Malawi Embassy staff. So far, I have attended the 2008 and 2009 parties. The 2010 party will take place at the usual venue, JICA Hiroo Centre  in Tokyo, on  Saturday 31 [...]

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I have just read an awesome story about Kelvin Maliwa, a 34 year old Malawian, who was born with no hands and disabled legs and could not attend formal schooling, but now has become a radio repair man. Because he lacks two healthy hands, he mends radios using his mouth and a home-made tool kit.

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At a time when the Malawi government was denying advertisements to Nation Publications Limited (NPL) allegedly due to the newspapers’ editorial slant, I encouraged NPL to focus on online advertising where the opportunities are limitless and there are no hurdles from the government of the day in their way.

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Ad-hoc gatherings, known as barcamps, which are born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment have been taking place all over the world since 2005. These meetings are open and their content is provided by participants.

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For the past six months or so, a team of volunteer translators who are passionate about Chichewa have been busy translating Google web search interface to Chichewa. The work has now been completed.

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