Tomorrow, 31 August, I will be going back to my Alma mater in Zomba (at Chancellor College, University of Malawi). The English department will be hosting me where I will be presenting my paper on urban music and how it presents situations as well as create conditions of the hard-to-reach youth in Malawi. For today, and now, I will just share the abstract and the details: Popular culture as a mirror: contextualising the music of Mafo within the situation of the youth in Malawi Urban music in Malawi has become one of the most followed popular culture products, especially among young people, owing to its easier accessibility and experimentation (mixing genres that young people are familiar with). Despite this being the case, it is one of the under researched areas in Malawi with most of the academic research on Malawian music focusing on old and established musicians such as Lucius Banda and Joseph Nkasa. One of the urban musicians who has mostly been reviled owing to what is said...
...writings and recollections; thoughts too.