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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.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

A new national consciousness: Agenda for the next 50 years

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We are winding down a year that marked two key milestones in our nation’s autobiography. We marked fifty years of independence, and we als...

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Monday, May 19, 2014

What the future may hold for Malawi beyond May 20th

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The person who wins this week’s election will need to thank Malawians for one thing: our capacity to forgive and give people a second chan...

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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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