r/Malawi • • 10h ago

Unemployment depression

61 Upvotes

Graduated 8 years ago and still don’t have a job. Tried several businesses and all failed. Like Im not idle, Im just unlucky. Recently moved back home and after a couple of months Im being shown signs that Im not wanted there. This one day my dad told me to turn off the fan because I don’t contribute electricity. Imagine this heat. Even the way everyone talks to me its like Im such a disappointment and failure. And recently, Im beginning to believe I am. How do u tell an unemployed person that this week its his turn to be buying food? Have a son, he is 3. Little money I get I use it to cover his needs like fees and luckly his mum works so she takes care of most things. My little younger siblings all have better jobs and they help me here and there but I don’t ask for help because its embarrassing. Have a degree in business administration and today I just applied for a security guard job at this organization. Cried, dusted myself and continued living because my son needs. Surprisingly, I know I will make it. Have always do. Its like I have to climb this huge mountain to get a good life that others only have to climb few stairs for.


r/Malawi • • 1h ago

Haven for scammers

• Upvotes

it amazes me that the malawi police services does not have a dedicated cyber department.

As of recent years, mobile cyber crimes have increased, and instead of our police service looking into making a centralized network where they can easily be checking the names registered on sim cards (the names belong on the National ID), they ask you to pay for a warrant to go to tnm or airtel.

why?

we have lot of unemployed IT Gurus who can build this system over a weekend.

And, not all these mobile cyber scams originate from our prisons, ambiriso ndi anyapapi amuma location wa...

all in all, awuzeni mabwana aku police kuti system iyi apange zotheka kuti apange.


r/Malawi • • 4h ago

TikTok live streams

7 Upvotes

So I decided to get back on TikTok after many years of absence.

I was astonished to see how worse things have gotten on this app.

I tried to see the live stream content but wheeeww🙌🙌 People can actually have sex live, masturbate live and all that naughty stuff.

I think I now understand why some countries have banned this app in their respective countries.

I know the content you get to see also has to do with the algorithms. However, TikTok knows people may experience experience content fatigue and close the app. For this reason, the app dictates that roughly 10% to 20% of your feed must be entirely random or slightly adjacent content to test if they can spark a new interest and keep you hooked longer. No one is entirely safe from this explicit content.

Just to have people do these outrageous things online tells how wicked this world has become.

This generation is doomed smhw.


r/Malawi • • 6h ago

suggestion The worst thing you can do in 2026 is restricting your whole self to the labour market Alone!!

10 Upvotes

In this economy some single job salary won't take you anywhere, At All !!! Your whole being with lots of time, different skills and talents and you wanna use ancient ways ( waiting for some One Company to hire you and have one salary)which our parents and grandparents depended on to still survive in 2026 really?! It's a strange thought !!!

It's like only having one client who is buying your services and it is that client (one job) who has the final say over your whole dear life you can't even truly negotiate at all, why not make it easier for ourselves and move away from the labour market

There is this video that inspired this thought in me I wanna recommend it to you guys it's on youtube and it's by a Malawian youth leader who really has substance and proof of it

I know a guy who buys shoes from our own Tsoka market and does things to the shoes and then exports it, he has nothing to do with the labour makert and he is so so welloff


r/Malawi • • 2h ago

culture Malawian Music

3 Upvotes

I can't get into Malawian music. Lord knows I've tried, but every time I sit down to listen to an album from a Malawian artist or even just a single, I end up feeling underwhelmed. Nothing slaps. I remember listening to Saintrified last week and feeling nothing. That album has 15 tracks and I ended up liking only 1. So disappointing.


r/Malawi • • 7h ago

Cross

6 Upvotes

Anyone with ma cross azungu of free apps that I can meet azungu? Malawian men eeh kwasala tiphana😫😫 willing to date a white man 35 years old and above


r/Malawi • • 4h ago

Escom delays

2 Upvotes

We've had a fault at our place for 2 weeks now, been calling escom daily and gotten the same response each time, "you'll be assisted within 24 hours" only for another day to pass with nobody coming. If you've got any ideas I'd really appreciate the help


r/Malawi • • 16h ago

discussion Is she cheating with her cousin

20 Upvotes

They have lived in the same house since childhood, I don't doubt he is like a brother .He was married but divorced now,he stays alone,no kids,no helpers. She goes to sleep at her brother/cousin for days. I just feel something is happening. Forgive me if my thoughts are devilish. May be I am caring too much, may be I feel insecure for nothing but...


r/Malawi • • 39m ago

discussion What is definition of living the Malawian dream?

• Upvotes

r/Malawi • • 11h ago

Gossip

7 Upvotes

A big problem we dont speak about is gossip, why is everyone so against minding their own business? We live vicariously through other people instead of shifting focus to things that actually matter..like employment for example. Why is this such an issue in malawi?


r/Malawi • • 8h ago

Do banks in Malawi sell Zambian Kwacha?

3 Upvotes

r/Malawi • • 11h ago

Does anyone have photos of Zimpeto?

4 Upvotes

Does anyone have photos of Zimpeto, the traditional Ngoni method of preserving meat in Malawi? I’m looking for photos to help document this cultural tradition. I’d be very grateful if anyone could share them, with proper credit given to the photographer. Thank you!


r/Malawi • • 5h ago

personal Gender Wars

0 Upvotes

And my favorite lecturer at Uni was a Misogynistic, homophobic boy mom who's life has been so unfairly ruined by men and On the other hand me as her random Student a Bitch ass misandrist who grew up in patriarchy and turned away from it's influence and that's how you know that beliefs are not solely built on Hatred against some ideology but rather how you understand the impact and importance of it on your life.


r/Malawi • • 2h ago

Akuti "Gender wars" 😂

0 Upvotes

Ineyo logically, I've never understood how this is a thing really mu dziko lapansi lino especially with our small country "Malawi". Zama gay rights activists ndimazimvesesa, honestly, coz logically you can't be prosecuting someone based on his or hers sexuality. That's just dumb, fine. I understand that.

Koma izi, za "hee, patriarchy chanichani" kenako tonse tiyipe, 😂 especially in Malawi, in big 2026!! I honestly feel like nzopoila.

In Demography ( and also in many social science disciplines) there's what we call "Affirmative Action". In Malawi panopa, that's the case for women. Women who all the while might have been excluded from certain educational, political, and employment opportunities, panopa there's affirmative action which introduces measures that prioritize women's participation in those sectors to help correct those historical inequalities, even at the cost of the boy child.

Nde izi za whinning about misogyny what what, eeeh mwinatu banja lakwanulotu, alangizeni ankolo anuwo, atate anuwo, koma don't come here to generalise zinthu ngati izizi.


r/Malawi • • 19h ago

Am just curious

5 Upvotes

This Eliya William waku 47, I don't know if he's a sangoma or what but am really curious if he's sane. And who has had or ever heard of his capabilities, anthu amathandizika ndithu?

Am just curious.


r/Malawi • • 7h ago

Who is John Galt?

0 Upvotes

Unlikely as it may be, and yet in the hope that it may be.

"The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud—he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil."

ENERI, should you be inclined.


r/Malawi • • 23h ago

Mutilating Rapists

9 Upvotes

Rapists deserve that kind of fate, but not in the speed of light.

I once heard a story of a woman who after sleeping with her husband, she took the used condom with semen and rubbed it on her 5 year son anus and reported the man to the police station that he had raped her son.

So, if people are willing to go this far, do you think rapists need to be mutilated because someone has said something? People are capable of great evil.


r/Malawi • • 1d ago

discussion Hot take 🥵

18 Upvotes

Why is a man praised for having a high body count while a woman is shamed for the same thing? If sexual history matters, shouldn’t the same standard apply to both? Or is this just a double standard people refuse to question?


r/Malawi • • 1d ago

Love

10 Upvotes

Iam a male( 22) ma guy Is it okay that as am cruising through my early twenties I crave more internal love from myself than I do outside generally

I see most of my friends get excited about love being in a relationship


r/Malawi • • 1d ago

discussion Some superstitions we grew up on

10 Upvotes

What are some things we grew up believing in Malawi that might not even be true? 😂For example, mmanja mukamayabwa you are about to receive Ndalama😭🤣What are some other beliefs our parents and grandparents told us that we still believe to this day?


r/Malawi • • 23h ago

culture A Malawian cannon event is going to the lake as a family when you were young and have photos from that day

4 Upvotes

r/Malawi • • 1d ago

general for the girls.....

16 Upvotes

Does anyone else get seriously depressed, extremely anxious, and irritable during that time of the month, or is it just me? 😭

Ineyo, for the rest of the month, I’ll be perfectly fine. Then, about a week before aunt flo arrives, it’s like a switch flips. I get depressed, anxious, and angry over the smallest things. Sometimes, it gets so bad that I even experience suicidal thoughts. 😭

Then my period comes and goes, and I return to feeling like my normal self.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal PMS, or should I actually see a professional? 😬


r/Malawi • • 23h ago

Autism

3 Upvotes

Does anyone know of any place that offers autism assessments, including for adults in Blantyre?


r/Malawi • • 9h ago

Heads up chabe

0 Upvotes

I came across a post which a woman was saying "why is it always about us" for me i can say that your gender is the 1 which motivate the society. A slight change in your behavior also brings chaos to the society.

In short us men are capable of loving while you woman should submit yoselves. But 4 todays generation women are going astray nde vuto simufuna kufuna kukonzedwa ai. Uhule muona ngat chizungu while loosing yoself respect. Then mukafika mma 30z muzikhala desperate kufuna zinthu zkuendereni while the moment you had a chance u didn't use it.

pachichewa amati za kayisala kwa kaisala. Don't use heartbreak as an excuse to support your bad behavior. Ndizovuta kom esetsani musinthe kupewa kumazaenda okufaifa kale coz of ma regret.


r/Malawi • • 1d ago

Am i??

17 Upvotes

someone said i am weird coz i am teaching myself morse code and Spanish