I am still thinking about the Malawian blogosphere, which is generally not very active at the moment. Sometime in December 2005 Geeta, Jesse, Soyapi, Tess, and Mike met for the very first Malawi blogger lunch in Lilongwe. They discussed a number of interesting issues. After that, Mike organized a braii for Malawi bloggers. By then, [...]

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Recently, the number of Malawians creating their own blogs has increased sharply. In order to keep track of Malawian blogs, Dr. Steve Sharra has created a cluster of blogs that focus on Malawi and Malawians. I encourage all folks whose blogs fit this category to check if their blogs are included in the cluster. If [...]

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I again draw your attention to the Chichewa/ Chinyanja Dictionary Project. For those who are hearing about it for the very first time, this dictionary has 730 pages and offers more than 35,000 entries into English (CE) and from English (EC). It is the only book of its kind. As such it is an indispensable [...]

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A few days ago, Skype’s connection fee for placing calls to landline and mobile phones in non-global rate countries was increased by 100%. As if that is not enough, the cost of a Skype call to Malawi mobile per minute is $0.163 without VAT and $0.187 with VAT.  Early last year, when I started using [...]

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The Meraka Institute in Pretoria, South Africa has yet again advertised a number of bursary, studentship, internship and post-doctoral vacancies. Although preference is usually given to South African citizens and permanent residents, I have observed that there is an increasing number of students, interns and post-doctoral researchers from across the African continent and even beyond.

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