Dad died in May 1994. Since then, mum being very religious catholic, has been organising a requiem mass annually to pray for the departed in the family . Initially, it was only for late dad but now it has gone as far as every known death in the extended family, even though the dead are non-catholics. This year the mass was celebrated on 8th Nov within the grounds of Likangala model primary school where mum is head teacher. My journey to Likangala was one which raised a lot of fond memories and there were a lot of new learning experiences on the way from Lilongwe to Likangala - Zomba(including bribing a police officer to let me pass through the Chingeni police road block without producing a receipt for the 5 new blankets I was taking to Zomba. OH MY GOD!! This was a really!really! new experience. I had... well I reserve this for a blog entry).
This blog has been in existence for some years but I only decided to revamp it today and I will be writing a whole lot of blog entries from the paragraph above. So stick around.
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Hi Dave Phiri,
I am curious to know how much you gave the traffic police officer in bribe to be allowed to pass without showing a receipt for your blankets. Bribery and corruption in general is not peculiar to Malawi; it is an African crisis with national undertones.
Tony Ayuninjam - www.acedn.org
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