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Midwiving the Afrikan rebirth. . . Views of Afrika and the world, on the path to the renaissance, from a social justice and an Afrikan epistemological perspective--uMunthu. Includes specific commentary on Malawi and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Steadying the edifice: Rebuilding Malawi’s Education Sector from Foundational Learning to Higher Education

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The Education Sector Performance Review (ESPR), commonly referred to as the Joint Sector Review (JSR), is a grand, much-anticipated annual e...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

On the 2023 PSLCE and JCE exam results & the coming curriculum review in Malawi

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That this year’s Primary School Leaving Certificate Education examination (PSLCE) results in Malawi show improvements from last year is wor...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Spirit of Transformation: Making Teaching a Prestigious Profession in Malawi

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On 6th July, 2023, both The Nation and Daily Times newspapers carried a story on teacher shortages in Malawi's education system. Both pa...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Stories of Ubuntu today; Hope for humanity tomorrow

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Below is text of a speech I gave to students at Dzaleka Community Day Secondary School, on 14th January, 2022. On this day, Unicaf Universit...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Teachers and Malawi’s development goals: Thoughts for World Teachers Day 2022

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It’s only Wednesday, but it has been a busy week in Malawi’s education space. On Sunday 2 nd October the Minister of Education, Hon. Agnes ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Why Malawi’s education sector could be on the cusp of change

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On 5 th April, 2022, Minister of Education, Hon. Agnes NyaLonje presented a ministerial statement to Parliament on the status of government...
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Monday, November 15, 2021

I dream of a teaching profession that attracts the best and brightest motivated young Malawians

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A TV Station interviewing a 2021 Malawian outstanding teacher (Photo credit:  ©  Steve Sharra) The Lamp Magazine interview by Joseph Kayira,...
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steve sharra
Ntcheu, Malawi
I write about Pan Africanism, uMunthu-peace & social justice educ. I trained at Lilongwe Teachers College & taught in Ntcheu. I authored a children's book, _Fleeing the War_, which won the 1995 British Council Write a Story competition. I was a 1997 honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (USA), and 1998 writer-in-residence at the U of Iowa. I was President of Malawi Writers Union (MAWU) 1996-1998, and founding Treasurer, 1994-1996. I have an MA in English Education (U of Iowa, 2000) & a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching & Educational Policy, Michigan State Univ, 2007 (dissertation research on peace education & uMunthu epistemology). Former visiting assistant prof of Peace and Justice Studies, Dept. of Philosophy, MSU. I'm fellow of the Programme for African Leadership, London School of Economics (2012) & speaker at TEDxLilongwe, May 2013. Current: Associate Professor & Dean, School of Education, Unicaf University. Previous: University of Botswana; Catholic University of Malawi; African Institute for Development Policy.
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