Startup Financing: The Missing Beginning
A few weeks ago I gave a talk to some twenty young entrepreneurs who were shortlisted for the What Will You Do With K20 Million Challenge.
Austin Madinga's Life Unbound
Self Employment: The New Default?
If you ask my mom, I am unemployed. A former civil servant and HR practitioner, she does not subscribe to the idea that you can make a living home working.
Empower girls with education
Seventeen year old Fyness is awakened by the movement of the goat she shares her living quarters with. In the distance, the sound of Cockerels breaks the predawn silence. It is time for her to rise and set off for...
The internet is the new Aeropagus
If you had a choice to reach out to new converts by building a new church or using the internet, which would you choose?
Do UN General Assembly trips give a ROI?
President Mutharika and his delegation have arrived in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly. As is normally the case, there have been questions about the size of his delegation and the cost to taxpayers.
Is urban farming the key to attracting the youth?
Agribusinesses made up two of the four presentations at the recent Lilongwe Pitch Night*.
Save that drop: Malawi’s water woes
Like most countries in the Southern Africa region, Malawi has faced severe water stress in the past few years owing to low rainfall during the period. This has affected the generation of electricity as well as agricultural productivity. And water...
Malawi’s Cash Addiction
Have you ever been forced to abandon your shopping at the supermarket till because the lone POS device ‘is not working’? Very typical in the retail sector in Malawi where traders just love the sight of cash!
Using IoT to train problem solvers of the future
Is Malawi ready to develop Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that tackle current and future food security, energy, transport and health issues? Well, that was a challenge the We for Talent Hackathon set out to address.
Cleaning up our litter
I was pleasantly surprised when I read this tweet yesterday by a Kenyan parliamentary aspirant.
