The future we’ve promised our girls
We can do more than tell young African girls to work hard in school. We need a real plan for the fully self-actualized people we want them to be.
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Michelle Chikaonda
Michelle Chikaonda is an essayist from Blantyre, Malawi, currently living in Philadelphia, PA.
Disappearing from view
The multifaceted effects of gender-based violence on girls in Malawi.
More than a freedom fighter
A new book about Rose Chibambo lifts the veil of post-colonial romanticism from her story. We get a moving, nuanced portrait in her own words.
Our turn to eat
Reflections on Malawi’s recent election rerun, false starts and the hope that public representatives in Africa become accountable to their electorates’ aspirations.
Death’s new rules
Coronavirus will force all of us to grapple with a new sense of mortality.