by Austin Madinga · Published 23 January 2009 · Last modified 2 September 2020
Last Tuesday many residents of Area 49 in Lilongwe and other townships rushed home to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America. But the euphoria was all cut short when they experienced an...
by Austin Madinga · Published 18 February 2008 · Last modified 2 September 2020
In the past few years, Malawians have witnessed cut-throat competition between mobile phone operators Celtel Malawi and TNM Limited in terms of marketing, promotions and roll-out of value-added services. Users have also joined in with accusations and counter-accusations flying around...
by Austin Madinga · Published 7 January 2008 · Last modified 2 September 2020
Two years ago while at a filmmakers and distributors conference, an issue was raised about film and documentary distribution in Africa particularly English speaking countries. I learnt that most television stations prefer to broadcast local country content above anything else....
by Austin Madinga · Published 24 September 2007 · Last modified 11 December 2019
In today’s edition of the Nation newspaper, First Merchant Bank vice chairman Hitesh Anadkat has decried the poor risk-taking culture amongst Malawians. He noted that the country has a lack of entrepreneurs who are ready to risk it all for...
by Austin Madinga · Published 23 January 2007 · Last modified 2 September 2020
The number of internet users in Malawi has grown tremendously over the past few years especially those using broadband internet services. Having worked for two of the major internet service providers in the country, I noticed that many users main...
