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Today is generally a normal day. By normal standards, I don’t expect anything out of the norm to happen. But then that is just an expectation. You know anything can happen in the world and you cannot always foresee it. Good and bad can happen. After a weekend out, in which I travelled to Blantyre and then Lilongwe, I had to travel back to Zomba, my home for the next three or so years. Whether I go to Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu; or anywhere in Zomba, my roads point in one direction now: All roads lead to Chirunga so I must always get back. On a rather unorthodox Monday, my friend and I decided to take a walk down the Chancellor College road. Our mission was simple, he wanted to show me the Chirunga Forest, Stadium and if circumstances allowed the villages around. And yes, we indeed proceeded to Thom Allan Village further down the road. Outdoor sports fields at Chirunga Campus It was a journey I wanted to connect to my surroundings as much as I could. For the four or s...

I received a 5-minute lecture from a minibus conductor on my return journey from my little trip in Lilongwe. After concluding my business (in my previous post), I caught a bicycle taxi headed towards the 6miles/Bunda Turnoff roundabout. With the Bicycle Taxi guy, we talked about how the government must move with speed to relocate the dumping site considering that residential settlements have been developed in Area 38. Our other major concern was how the government was waiting for another settlement tragedy to happen as everybody builds according to the way they desire.  The end result, we agreed, was that we were going to have settlements like the ones in places like Area 36, 25 and so on…with so many closed roads and no proper streets despite the houses being top town houses.  We also agreed that the more the government continues to downplay the problem by saying that the people had encroached its land, the more the settlements would sprout giving a high prob...