The prolific social historian and medical doctor Dr John Lwanda will be at Chambo Market Bookshop and Art Gallery to launch his new and updated edition of the insightful work Promises, Power, Politics and Poverty: Democratic Transition in Malawi (1961-2024) (Mzuni Press, 2024). Join us on Tuesday 5th November at 6.30pm for the launch with book […]
This month’s event at the Chambo Market Bookshop and Art Gallery is the opening of Landscapes of Malawi visual art exhibition by Charles Levison on Thursday 31 October 2024, at 6.30pm. You are welcome to an exciting evening with the artist. The exhibition will run until 16 November 2024. About the artist Charles Levison is an accomplished […]
We’ve opened a new Chambo Market Bookshop and Art Gallery outlet at The Lark Cafe in Area 43, Lilongwe. This stocks the best Malawian books and our own best-selling publications, including Malawi, A Place Apart, ‘Madonna is our Mother: Notes from Malawi, and Lomathinda: Rose Chibambo Speaks. For our full stock and antiquarian books, you can […]
You’re in for a literary treat. Next week at Chambo Market Bookshop and Gallery, Muthi Nhlema, one of the authors of speculative anthology Mombera Rising: Ngoni Chronicles of Nature Futures from Malawi, will be in conversation Logos Open Culture’s director Muti Etter-Phoya. Imagine the year is 2054, and you are in Mzimba. The Esangweni, the gathering of […]
Chambo Market is excited to announce the opening of Ellis Singano‘s latest exhibition, Tales of Old Malawi, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. You are all warmly invited. Visual artist Singano draws inspiration from Tales of Old Malawi, a book from the Malawian Writers Series that his father Ellis Singano senior and Adrian Roscoe penned. Singano said, […]
David Bone, author of Protests, Petitions and Persuasion: Documents from Malawi (Mzuni Press, 2024), will give a talk next week, Tuesday, 2 July 2024, at Chambo Market Bookshop and Gallery in Lilongwe. You are invited from 5.30 pm. Bone’s latest book, Protests, Petitions and Persuasion is an exciting, comprehensive compilation of letters, petitions, songs, poems, cartoons and […]
Logos Open Culture’s bestseller Malawi–A Place Apart was launched last week in a new and updated second edition with author Asbjørn Eidhammer at the Norwegian Ambassador’s residence in Lilongwe. Music and acrobatics opened the night. Richard Chimwendo Banda, the Minister of Homeland Security, gave the first speech. He was followed by Ingrid Marie Mikelsen, Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi, […]
Chambo Market Bookshop and Art Gallery is hosting singer and pianist Art Terry at MADSOC Theatre in Lilongwe on 1 March 2024. The Wire says about Los Angeles born Art Terry that he ‘simply tells it like he sees it, a folksy counsellor who comes on with style…’ Tickets are available in advance from Chambo […]
On 27 January 2024, Chambo Market Bookshop and Gallery will host Athira Krishnan’s exhibition ‘Impressions of Malawi’. Photographer and writer, Athira grew up in Lilongwe, and is collaborating with Logos Open Culture on a forthcoming photography book. Athira Krishnan is a business graduate turned creative entrepreneur, who’s currently traveling around Africa, and Southern and Eastern […]
Chambo Market Bookshop and Gallery is gearing up for its final event of 2023, a conversation between authors Muti Michael Phoya (Madonna is our Mother: Notes from Malawi, 2023) and Alexander Chula (Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country, 2023). Join us at 6pm, Thursday 14 December, at Chambo Market Bookshop […]