360 Staff Pick: The Very Best
Playlist anxiety this party season? It's The Very Best to the rescue. Fronted by a Malawian Esau Mwamwaya, the band made mixtape history last year with its killer remixes of M.I.A's 'Paper Planes' and...
View ArticleThe Very Best: More to Malawi Than Madonna's Kids
A few years ago in East London a music producer named Johan Hugo walked into a junk shop owned by Esau Mwamwaya. Hugo needed a session percussionist and asked Mwamwaya to audition for him. It turned...
View ArticleShimmering Afropop Of The Very Best, Hear Me Now
The stars aligned for Malawi's Esau Mwamwaya and producer Johan Hugo when they met in an East London junk shop in 2008. Since then, the musical duo has been making radiant afro-pop. They describe their...
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What makes breast milk nutritious? The secret may be in a baby’s gut
Bottles of breast milk are seen at a hospital in Medellin, Colombia. Volunteers supply the hospital’s milk bank, to offer a more nutritious alternative for children whose mothers are not able to...
View ArticleAlleged cult leader plays shell game with US foreign aid
You know those Planet Aid clothing donation boxes you see on the side of the road? Those clothes and over $100 million in U.S. grant money are supposed to help people in southern Africa. But when...
View Article[Update] Alleged cult leader plays shell game with US foreign aid
Reveal went to the African nation of Malawi to find out why the U.S. government has continued to give grants to a charitable organization that it knew was linked to an international fugitive. Find out...
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Photos: A mother’s story of survival in drought-ridden Malawi
Alinafe and her young daughter walk through the dried fields of Malawi. Photo by Sebastian Rich for UNICEFEditor’s Note: As one of the worst droughts ever recorded in Southern and Eastern Africa...
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Photos: In drought-stricken Malawi, rains just ‘don’t come’
Drought associated with the El Nino weather pattern has created famine conditions throughout Southern Africa with more than 60 million people dependent on food aid. Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty...
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