Three years have gone since the birth of this blog. It had plans and goals to achieve. Somewhere along the way along with just speaking my mind on several issues, I thought it important to comment on issues of national importance. It amazed me how the whole nation could not know about such things and even the public media commenting falsely. I believe it opened eyes somewhere. It might have been among the few voices to encourage the decision makes, make a good ruling on Muluzi's eligibility.
There are articles the series operation bwezani have also had their influence in some places have seen organizations like MACRA,MBS being active on such issues. I remember one time some people demonstrated against unfair charges in banks. I have also seen government buying some shares in Zain on its acquisition by Barti Airtel. I guess then some of my desires to change things have been successful.
I received immediate reaction on my comment on global warming. Almost nobody have connected Global Warming with ground cover until this day. There have been campaigns against green house gases and fossil fuels but replanting vegetation has been an almost forgotten campaign. The rich countries in which Global warming and climate change effects are prominent, does not seem to think about replanting their depleted vegetation which has been replaced by the concrete jungle.
Having observed this, I wrote this article and had immediate effect. The following day, TV Malawi now MBC TV featured a documentary on the influence of vegetation on climate change. I observed a change of word in the campaign from then on. So one sentence did change the mindset of a generation.
There are issues that boil up due to abuse of freedom of speech/expression. Yes with all the freedoms we have we forget our responsibilities as well. The laws that exists are there to so that when we exercise our freedoms we should do so without harming others. For every sin/wrong/illegal thing that we do is in expressing one of our freedoms but most of the times at the expense of others. The bible describes the sexual sin as the only wrong one does against his own body. I observed the media reporting unresponsively one the Kenya issue, on Muluzi's third term bid; I saw a situation in Bangkok die down naturally and a North Korean War prevented with the world's attention diverted toward The World Cup As proof of how sometimes responsibly not exercising our freedom of speech can avoid so much catastrophe.
I saw people in Malawi calm down after being infuriated due to the introduction of the quota system in university selection. I believe my articles on Reasonable Hatred were a major influence. I could go places people speaking my own words even not knowing I was the one who wrote these words. It was humbling even to comment more on the same issue like everybody else is commenting (a popular thought). Amazing, I should say!
I once was mistaken for a big business guru by MBC TV due to my comment on value-adding. I had just read about the gross domestic product on this day. They asked me to feature on their Business Digest programme but I guess they were put off when i told them I am not employed yet. But this mistake was really an encouragement for I had a thought of giving up even writing such articles for nothing seemed to be bearing fruits.
So here we are accounts balanced after three years of aiming high. I have achieved something. It feels good.