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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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Friday, December 16, 2016

Malawi’s public education system: from planning to implementing

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If Malawi truly wanted to improve the quality of public education, three questions would need to provide guidance. Which local, endogenous...

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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, September 23, 2013

Why I still believe in the African rebirth

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Text of my talk at TEDxLilongwe, 25th May, 2013 Watch the Youtube video here When I started blogging in 2005, I gave my blog a Chich...

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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Five Questions with Steve Sharra, participant on LSE’s Programme for African Leadership

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Five Questions with Steve Sharra, participant on LSE’s Programme for African Leadership This interview was done for the London Schoo...

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Peace Studies and ‘Africa’: International Day of Peace Reflections

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When I stumbled upon peace studies as an academic discipline in 2003, I saw the myriad questions I had developed over a life time, some of w...

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

uMunthu, Peace and Education: On Malawi's 44th Independence Anniversary

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One morning at a school near Lake Chirwa in Zomba in 1972, pupils entering their Standard 8 classroom received the shock of their lives. T...

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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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