Malawi

Oct 232010

The Future of Fishing in Malawi

by Edem Djokotoe

Editors Note: Knight Fellow Edem Djokotoe investigates the fishing industry in Malawi

The future of Malawi’s agriculture could lie in the hands of people like Heinrich Sitima, a 14-year-old school boy I met during a farm visit in Chiradzulu, a rural district some 30 minutes’ drive from Blantyre. He lives with his parents on Wambeu Farm, a 10-hectare sprawl with pigs, goats, cows, fish, bananas, cabbages, tomatoes, onions and a animal feed enterprise.
   Heinrich Sitima at Wambeu Farm in Chiradzulu Heinrich wants to be a farmer when he grows up.

South Africa and Malawi: Journalism Training (2003)

In Partnership With: 
Bush Radio

Knight International Journalism Fellow Terry FitzPatrick completed nine months of journalism training in Malawi and South Africa in 2003, partnering with Bush Radio.

Malawi: Shedding Light on Development in One of Africa’s Poorest Countries

In Partnership With: 
The Nation

Edem Djokotoe led a team of 10 reporters and editors at Malawi’s leading independent newspaper, The Nation, in producing investigative reports that shed light on development issues such as farming, fisheries and fuel shortages. For the first time, a Malawi newspaper offers readers in-depth stories on key topics such as the near-extinction of fish species vital to the Malawi economy, grain-storage problems that threatened food security, threats to the environment from overuse of charcoal, and efforts to produce ethanol from an indigenous plant.

Sep 232010

A Dirty Word Called 'Development'

by Edem Djokotoe

Chapananga is a remote chiefdom on Malawi’s southern border with Mozambique. It is four and a half hours of meandering mountainous road and hard driving from Blantyre, the commercial capital of the country, where Nation Publications Limited, my host organization, is headquartered.

In a month and a half’s time when the rains start, the area will be inaccessible by road transport, including their sturdiest and most reliable of 4x4’s.

Jun 152010

Journey of a Thousand Miles

by Edem Djokotoe

Editors Note: The blog sums up what I will be expected to do in Malawi as outlined at the week-long orientation session at the ICFJ in Washington DC

My journey to an Africa Development Journalism Fellowship in Malawi started with a significant first step in Washington.