[Civsoc-mw] [Malawitalk] Re: Fwd: Ma lawi the name

Sun May 28 12:10:54 CAT 2017

Hi Bwana Moyo,
Perhaps more Malawian visitors will come out of the woodwork and we can
form a Lichinga Visitors Club. Yes, take a Yao speaker with you. Once they
discovered the Yao speaker with his strange Yao accent was from Malawi, we
were more than welcome. We would have stayed overnight but our permit was
for a day trip and my word is my bond.

Actually Niassa Province shares the Lake with Malawi and therefore Likoma
and Chizumulu islands are in Niassa Province. So it it possible to travel
expensively and style from the other direction: arrange your honeymoon or
something similar by booking a combined Malawi Kaya Mawa (Likoma, 12 miles
from the Mozambican shore) with a game reserve & beach resort in Niassa
Province. Your new spouse will remember you for ever.
LN

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Mzondi W.J. Moyo <mzondimoyo at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I had a three nights trip to Lichinga in 2012. It's a beautiful city
> really, unfortunately with a huge and congested grass thatched slums,
> courtesy of civil war. Roads in the city were wide, clean and formed
> hexagonal(or pentagonal?) rings. Language was total trouble apart from our
> official translator. A yao tradeswoman from mangochi came to our rescue.
> She advised us on several things  including discipline. 10 pm joints are
> closed and police effectively enforced it. We visited three more districts.
> Two newly declared, on Sanga and the other one I could not remember. One
> thing struck me. Careful road planning. Double lane earth roads! They are
> very serious and with vision
> At the time we were closing into their country, at chiponde, whilst for
> clearance, 4 vehicles left with chickens from Malawi. We were told that we
> were going to eat own chickens. And in support of Prof Nthenda visit it but
> be ready for road taxes at the border.
> Forgot something. We were showed, from a distance, a house where sister to
> Michel Mlambala our former was living
> Mzondi
>
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> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 13:43, Louis Nthenda
> <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:
> In 2008 I took a day trip by car to Lichinga, the capital of Niassa
> Province - a beautiful tarred road from the Malawi border all the way to
> Lichinga, built with EU funds. Although I'm half Yao I don't speak the
> lingo and since we were going on some business I had to take a Yao speaker
> as interpreter from Zomba.  Yao like all languages has dialects and there
> were bits they couldn't understand each other. Lichinga is deep enough into
> Mozambique that Chinyanja is only a "minor" language there.
>
> If you are on a day trip, you have to be back at the Mozambican side of
> the border by 6 p.m. when the Mozambicans close the border. We arrived late
> just after 6 pm and we had to go to the Immigration officer's house and had
> a hell of a problem to persuade him to open the border. I was refusing to
> pay a "fine", but I think I did, I don't quite remember. He had the upper
> hand. It took over an hour for him to let us leave. Lichinga is a clean
> beautiful town. Good food. Well dressed. Go and visit it when you have
> time. These days you need a passport. Some of the Government people spoke
> very good English, but otherwise, if you don't know Portuguese I suggest
> take a Yao speaker with you. That's the lingua franca there.
>
> *Niassa* is a province
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Mozambique> of Mozambique
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique>. It has an area of 122,827 km2and
> a population of 1,027,037 (2006).[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niassa_Province#cite_note-1> It is the
> most sparsely populated province in the country.[2]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niassa_Province#cite_note-a-2> Lichinga
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichinga> is the capital of the province.
> There are a minimum estimated 450,000 Yao people
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_(ethnic_group_in_Africa)> living in
> Mozambique. They largely occupy the eastern and northern part of the Niassa
> province and form about 40% of the population of Lichinga, the capital of
> this province.
>
> The Ruvuma River <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruvuma_River> forms much
> of the northern boundary of the province with Tanzania
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania> while Lake Niassa
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Niassa> forms the western border of
> the province, separating it from Malawi
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi>. 75% of the province remains
> untouched by development, and remains free of landmines
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmine>.[2]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niassa_Province#cite_note-a-2> The
> province shares the Niassa National Reserve
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niassa_Reserve> with neighboring Cabo
> Delgado Province <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Delgado_Province>
>
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:03 PM, cuthbertkachale via MALAWITALK <
> MALAWITALK2 at groupspaces.com> wrote:
>
> The dominant tribe  around the lake was/is the Yao tribe. To them Nyasa
> means lake. Nyasa Province is a Mozambican province by the lake.
>
> World maps still show Lake Nyasa.
>
> Mzee.
>
>
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>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Mzondi W.J. Moyo" <mzondimoyo at yahoo.com>
> Date: 27/05/2017 05:06 (GMT+02:00)
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> Mzee
> Thanks for the article on our name Malawi. My second time to read about
> mwenemuji. So it was real.
> Nyasa name which we hated by association with colonial name is still very
> dear in Tz and Mozambique where they have whole province.
> Mzondi
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