• Elliot Ross

A very short introduction to Peter Mutharika, Malawi's new President.

• Elliot Ross

• Jimmy Kainja

As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country's present.

• Elliot Ross

After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.

• Elliot Ross

Madonna's attempt to save face after her scolding by Malawi's president to rehash the stereotype of the corrupt African leader rings hollow, and a bit desperate. Malawi's President wasn't having it.

• Elliot Ross

Why when African leaders meet Barack Obama, they are received in groups (unlike all other heads of state) and rarely get to speak?

• Jimmy Kainja

John Chilembwe is Malawi's first great anti-colonial hero. Why do our media outlets mainly rely on Wikipedia to give us “facts” about him?

• Jimmy Kainja

It is becoming apparent that Malawian presidents have one image for the world and a separate one, mostly negative, for the people who actually voted them into power.

• Elliot Ross

By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.

• Travis Ferland

Is Banda serious about repealing Malawi's anti-gay laws? Is she just cynical so as to secure donor cash? And, what about Malawian public opinion?

• Dan Moshenberg

• Bukola Afolayan

Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.

• Dan Moshenberg