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To spur domestic tourism, we should consider pushing national holidays to weekends to create shorter work weeks and long weekends to enable families to travel more.

Beautiful fresco paintings by Micheal Kapalamula adorn the walls of Bembeke Cathedral of the Holy Family in Dedza Diocese. A photo story.

Highlights from the opening of The Chapter Coffeehouse, a cafe in the city of Lilongwe serving coffee, tea and cakes.

Passing through Dedza boma and looking for a place to get a hot meal and a cold drink? Give Mapiri Country Lodge a try!

A photostory of Cape Maclear, also known as Chembe, a small tourist and fishing village in the Nankumba Peninsula, on the southern tip of Lake Malawi.

Malawi celebrates World Tourism Day at an unprecedented time. The theme, Tourism and Rural Development, is an important one given the negative effects the pandemic has had on most rural communities.

With COVID-19 cutting off revenue from international tourists and conferences, Malawi has to rethink its strategy and package products for domestic tourism.

On World Water Day, how can Malawi balance up the need for frequent hand washing in light of Covid-19 and its poor provision of potable water?

Tumaini Festival is primarily a music festival. But on the peripherals, a lot of art, fashion and food is happening.

Looking for a light lunch in Area 47? CaRiz Cakery, a coffee shop and cakery, should be on your list. And they prepare a great chicken sandwich!

In Malawi, we need to raise our voices more and take more action. We need to own the wildlife conservation narrative.

A colleague from South Africa working in Malawi once exclaimed “Last weekend we saw a hyena in the middle of […]

It was a day before Malawi went to the polls to elect a new president, parliament and local councils. My […]

Photography assignment for Annavilla7, a new Aparthotel in the affluent neighbourhood of New Area 12, in Lilongwe city.

Workshop on Property Access to Digital Platforms at the Takulandirani - Malawi International Tourism Expo.

I made a presentation at the Takulandirani 2019 Malawi Tourism International Tourism Expo on Property Access to Digital Platforms. The […]

Sitting at the foot of Kalulu hills on the Malawi - Zambia border district of Mchinji is Kachebere Major Seminary, a Roman Catholic philosophical training college.

Sun and sand, fresh fish and cold beer. A photo story of the pristine beaches of Chintheche on the northern shores of Lake Malawi.

Road tripping through Nkhata Bay mountains, windy roads and rubber plantations in pursuit of Lake Malawi's pristine Chintheche beach

The fifth edition of the Tumaini Festival was held over the weekend at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa, central Malawi. Two days of music, dance and poetry.

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