People to People podcast

In this episode Professor Tracy Morse and Dr. Effie Chipeta join Chimzy and Hazel for a conversation about their partnership project which looks at mental health and wellbeing in adolescents in Malawi with the University of Strathclyde. They’ve also both worked in sexual and reproductive health and we touch on that.

You can hear from the start that it’s a really special partnership rooted in a people to people connection and mutual learning.

This podcast is supported by the Scotland Malawi Partnership.

This is Part 2 of a conversation that we had Maria Chiponde and Florisa De Leo Magambi. Florisa is handing over the Kibebe organisation to Maria, and we heard about that in part one. But we had to also publish some of the other compelling conversation that we had about the refugee community in Malawi. Chimzy and Hazel were both quite moved to hear about it and we'd love to know what you think.

Warning: themes of sexual violence and child loss.

https://inuaadvocacy.org/

https://www.oneworldshop.co.uk/shop/?filtering=1&filter_product_brand=16951  

https://kkids.sumupstore.com/products

Hazel and Chimzy chat with Maria Chiponde and Florisa De Leo Magambi from Kibébé. Kibébé in the Swahili dialect used in the Dzaleka refugee camp where they work means a big fat healthy baby. This episode captures an amazing moment in the organisation's history as Florisa passes over the leadership of the organisation to Maria.

This episode features a beautiful song by Peter Mawanga.

Link to the One World Shop in Edinburgh

https://www.oneworldshop.co.uk/shop/?filtering=1&filter_product_brand=16951  

Link to the Kibébé online shop

https://kkids.sumupstore.com/products

Link to Inua Advocacy

https://inuaadvocacy.org/

Link to Peter Mawanga on bandcamp

https://petermawanga.bandcamp.com/track/nkhani-2

In the latest people-to-people podcast, Malawian wildlife biologist and aquatic ecologist Simon Munthali shares some of the highlights of his fascinating 43 years working in conservation. As well as having operated in multiple African countries, Simon is a co-founding member of the Southern African Foundation for Agriculture and Climate Change (SAFFACC).

We are also joined by Social Entrepreneur and Network Builder, Karen Kumakanga who brings to life her memories of the Nature Sanctuary in Lilongwe. 

We talk about mixing conservation and tourism and diving in Lake Malawi at night.

Sometimes we have partnerships that are well established and on this occasion we have someone looking for partnership.

Our guests on this episode are Dr Jeremy Bagg form the University of Glasgow and Dr Mwpatsa Mipando from Kamuzu University. They discuss the partnership central to the MalDent Project

https://themaldentproject.com/

https://www.facebook.com/moyendaband/

You can hear all about successful partnership and find out where that's leading to next in a conversation among friends.

McArthur Matukuta is the Exectutive Director of Solomonic Peacock Theatre in Malawi and Kate Stafford is a theatre director in the UK, who has spent several years making work in Malawi. Hazel and Chimzy want to find out about their connection and what international theatre collaborations could look like between Malawi and Scotland.

"We are able to tell our own stories in our own way. Because this is what I saw when I travelled in different countries. Artists are able to tell their stories in their traditional way... it has also helped us telling a story in a Malawian way, but of international standard."

Here are some links to the work of Solomonic Peacock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vByQGKkCSLM&ab_channel=SolomonicPeacocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8R7MMWwqI&ab_channel=SolomonicPeacocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTlYSlSfbEE&ab_channel=SolomonicPeacocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nPxe8Ygugc&ab_channel=SolomonicPeacocks

It's the only international theatre festival in Malawi and the only festival which is livestreamed on Facebook.

https://eastertheatrefestival.org/

Pamtondo is a play, telling a story in a particularly malawian way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QogXUCFhb7o&ab_channel=SolomonicPeacocks

Here's a crowdfunder for the Easter Festival:

https://gofund.me/70942104

And one to support some volunteers to go there

The Tempest toured the UK in 2017 with a company of 10, 4 from Malawi: Joshua Bhima and Robert Magasa played Ariel; Stanley Mambo played Caliban and Ben Michael Mankhamba was one of the two musician/composers. Caliban’s lines were all in Chichewa with surtitles, and Ariel spoke in English when speaking to Prospero (the Island’s coloniser) and Chichewa when speaking to each other or Caliban. Miranda spoke English with some Chichewa phrases (when speaking to Caliban).

https://vimeo.com/797798031

Hazel and Chimzy host a discussion between Scottish farmers Kath and Matthew Aitken and Charles Chavi about farming, bees, fairtrade and resilience.

Charles is from the Kasinthula Cane Growers Association in Malawi, he is in the Shire Valley region in the South of Malawi. An association (transitioning into a co-operative) of 762 farmers farming under 1435 hectares, on average 2.5 hectares each.

Kath and Matthew live in a small village in Scotland called Dunscore. Kath has recently retired from active farming on Auchengage farm, though as you’ll hear she’s still bee keeping, but she and Matthew now rent their farmland to their neighbours. And Matthew’s interest is in the Fairtrade angle.

This episode features music from Pulse of the Place https://www.facebook.com/pulseoftheplace

 https://youtu.be/SXD6r2VDzMM

Red Hot Chilli Pipers and others at the Fairtrade concert:

https://ethical.tv/2023/07/02/world-fair-trade-day-with-red-hot-chilli-pipers-shooglenifty-and-presented-by-fair-trade-ambassador-gail-porter/

A film featuring Kath and Matthew and the Kasinthula Cane Growers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-h6N5mc3U&t=3s

About Kasinthula Cane Growers:

https://www.trickleout.net/index.php/directoryofenterprises/Malawi_/kasinthula-cane-growers-kcg-sugar-cane-co-operative-malawi

http://www.kasinthula.mw/

Farmerama

https://farmerama.co/landed/

Find out more about Fairtrade:

https://files.fairtrade.net/standards/Cane_Sugar_SPO_EN.pdf

https://www.fairtrade.net/act/get-certified#:~:text=If%20you%20are%20a%20brand,you%20may%20become%20a%20licensee.

https://www.flocert.net/fairtrade-overview/.

https://wfto.com/what-we-do#our-guarantee-system. 

Chimzy and Hazel have a conversation with Richard Bennett and Nohara Chinguwo from the Bhubesi Pride foundation. They discuss the ways that the organisation is changing and has become a Malawian NGO. This series looks at partnerships between Scotland and Malawi and we think this is an interesting example to learn from. They promote sports for development and gender equality.

Bhubesi Pride page:

https://bpfafrica.org/about-us/meet-the-bpf-team/

The featured song is Gold by Twnda from the album African Love Story:

https://www.shazam.com/gb/track/612302166/ningenjelwanga-radio-edit

The second half of a conversation about decolonisation with Dr Yonah Matembe and Amy Blake from the Challenges group (formerly Chief Executive of Classrooms for Malawi.) They discuss Neocolonialism, Afro Colonialism and decolonising ones own self first. An introduction to a huge topic that we hope to explore further in the series.

This episode includes the song Tiye Kwathu by Mtameni Kachusa who works for the Malawi Scotland partnership.

https://thechallengesgroup.com/

https://classroomsformalawi.co.uk/

https://www.scotland-malawipartnership.org/events/open-lecture-decolonising-the-curriculum-why-what-and-how

http://www.malawiscotlandpartnership.org/about-us/our-team/

Here's a starting list of decolonisation resources and articles list (please let us know what to add)

Reading University Decolonise the Curriculum Resource

Decolonising the University of Bristol blog

MMU decolonising the curriculum toolkit

Tackling Racism is Hard blog

Books:

My Grandmother'd Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (2021)

Living While Black by Candice Carty Williams (2021)

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. London: Two Roads. By Akala (2018)

Me and White Supremacy. London: Quercus by Saad, L.F. (2020).

‘Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo- (2017)

Films/TV:

A United Kingdom

Daryl Davis’ Ted Talk

The Color of Fear by Lee Mun Wah,

‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’ David Olusaoga (iPlayer)

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Provokative photography collage Art:

https://www.instagram.com/ugurgallen/

The first half of a conversation about decolonisation with Dr Yonah Matembe and Amy Blake from the Challenges group (formerly Chief Executive of Classrooms for Malawi.) They discuss Neocolonialism, Afro Colonialism and decolonising ones own self first. An introduction to a huge topic that we hope to explore further in the series.

This episode includes the song Tamba Wenga by the Bhundu boys on the album Muchiyedza (Out of the Dark)

https://soundcloud.com/bhunduboys/sets/muchiyedza-out-of-the-dark

https://thechallengesgroup.com/

https://classroomsformalawi.co.uk/

https://www.scotland-malawipartnership.org/events/open-lecture-decolonising-the-curriculum-why-what-and-how

Here's a starting list of decolonisation resources and articles list (please let us know what to add)

Reading University Decolonise the Curriculum Resource

Decolonising the University of Bristol blog

MMU decolonising the curriculum toolkit

Tackling Racism is Hard blog

Books:

My Grandmother'd Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (2021)

Living While Black by Candice Carty Williams (2021)

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. London: Two Roads. By Akala (2018)

Me and White Supremacy. London: Quercus by Saad, L.F. (2020).

‘Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo- (2017)

Films/TV:

A United Kingdom

Daryl Davis’ Ted Talk

The Color of Fear by Lee Mun Wah,

‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’ David Olusaoga (iPlayer)

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Provokative photography collage Art:

https://www.instagram.com/ugurgallen/