The brilliant Malawian-American singer/songwriter Masauko Chipembere will be at Chambo Market Bookshop and Gallery in Lilongwe, 5.30pm, 9 November 2023. Join us for an intimate event while Masauko is visiting Malawi. Masa will be performing songs from his self titled album and sharing some passages from his father’s autobiography. He will help us understand how he hopes […]
Logos Open Culture is excited to announce its upcoming publication of a second edition of best-selling book Malawi – A Place Apart by Asbjørn Eidhammer, first published in 2017. The second edition, published 6 years later, provides a welcome update. Eidhammer takes into account recent developments in Malawi. This includes almost thirty years of democracy and the […]
Chambo Market Bookshop and Art Gallery has opened its new space. We have a permanent collection of some of Malawi’s best visual artists (past and present). Vistors can see striking pieces by Boston Mbale, Nixon Malamulo, Innocent Willinga, and others. In our new, larger space, you can still pick up the best book titles on […]
Logos Open Culture’s latest publication, ‘Madonna is our Mother’: notes from Malawi by Muti Michael Phoya was covered in The Daily Times, cross posted here. In his interview with Sam Banda Jnr, Muti said “Some of the things that we are praising others for doing for us can be done by ourselves. We are capable,” he said. The title […]
Logos Open Culture took author Muti Phoya of ‘Madonna is our mother’: notes from Malawi on a book tour of southern Malawi this past weekend. On Friday, with an intimate audience, Muti read from and discussed his latest work – a collection of essays that reflects on postcolonial Malawi – at Malawi’s oldest standing building, Mandala […]
Logos Open Culture is pleased to announce a series of book chats for our seventh publication ‘Madonna is our Mother’: Notes from Malawi in Blantyre and Zomba. After a successful book launch in Lilongwe in March, author Muti Michael Phoya will do a book tour in the south of Malawi this coming weekend. Muti will be in […]
Logos Open Culture will be at the fourth Malawi International Tourism Expo this week. View this post on Instagram A post shared by #SonOfaPreachersSon (@qmalewezi) The Ministry of Tourism is hosting this exciting event, “Takulandirani”. This means ‘you are welcome’ in one of Malawi’s official languages, Chichewa. Logos Open Culture will have an […]
On 16 March 2023, Chambo Market hosted the launch of book Madonna is our Mother: Notes from Malawi by Muti Michael Phoya. We had a wonderful evening with about 100 guests from many walks of life and different ages. Beautiful classical music by the duo the Nyasa Strings, echoed through the halls of Old Town Mall as […]
We would like to invite you to the book launch of Logos Open Culture’s ‘Madonna is our Mother’: Notes from Malawi, by Muti Michael Phoya. When: Thursday 9 March 5.30-6.30pm Where: our bookshop Chambo Market, in Old Town Mall, next to African Habitat. RSVP by SMS or Whatsapp by 7 March to Rachel +265992052066 or email muti@logosmw.org. Good […]
Next month, Logos Open Culture will launch ‘Madonna is our Mother’: Notes from Malawi by Muti Michael Phoya. The latest book from Malawian publishing house is a collection of essays. Phoya explores Malawi’s shifting postcolonial character. Focusing mainly on the land and memory, the book paints a nuanced picture of a modern African country through its fascinating history. […]