{"id":39636,"date":"2023-01-29T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises"},"modified":"2023-01-29T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:01:48","slug":"chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera speaks against harmful cultural practises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has spoken strongly against harmful cultural practices, advising Malawians to move away from them. Chakwera says culture is key in promoting peace and unity as well as enhancing social-economic development among Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>He said this during this year\u2019s Gonapamuhanya Cultural Festival of the Tumbukas at Chikulamayembe\u2019s Headquarters in Bolero, Rumphi. Dr Chakwera said culture plays a crucial role in advancing different development initiatives in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hailing the importance of culture, the Malawi leader said one way of realising a new Malawi is the need to abolish every harmful cultural practice that harasses girls and women such as Kupimbira and Mbirigha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must use cultural festivals like this one to challenge those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we leave unsound cultural beliefs about women unchanged, we will continue seeing the destruction of the self-esteem of Malawi\u2019s girls and women which negatively affects their confidence in themselves,\u201d said Dr Chakwera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also disturbed by reports of human rights abuses against our women and girls, and I condemn such abuses in the strongest possible terms,\u201d said Dr Chakwera. On corruption, the President described some cultural practices as a driving factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not doubt that these cultural beliefs are what fuel corruption in government, where people go in and treat resources of the country as spoils won in the battle of political campaigns,\u201d said Dr Chakwera.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Themba la Mathemba Chikulamayembe urged chiefs to take a leading role in promoting unity among themselves and their subjects for a better Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Chikulamayembe also encouraged all Malawians to preserve the environment as one way of helping the government to fight against climate change. During the event, the Tumbuka Paramount Chief also recognized 12 clans from his royal family with special badges.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s ceremony was commemorated under the theme: \u2018Developing education, good cultural practices, togetherness, peace and ending corruption and bribery\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Chief Kyungu of Karonga and Chitipa, Inkosi ya Makhosi Mbelwa the 5th, and some traditional leaders from Zambia were among the dignitaries. Gonapamuhanya is an annual commemoration of the arrival of the first Tumbuka King Gonapamuhanya who ruled the Nkhamanga Kingdom from 1780.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has spoken strongly against harmful cultural practices, advising Malawians to move away from them. Chakwera says culture is key in promoting peace and unity as well as enhancing social-economic development among Malawians. He said this during this year\u2019s Gonapamuhanya Cultural Festival of the Tumbukas at Chikulamayembe\u2019s Headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,25],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-39636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-featured","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera speaks against harmful cultural practises - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has spoken strongly against harmful cultural practices, advising Malawians to mov ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera speaks against harmful cultural practises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has spoken strongly against harmful cultural practices, advising Malawians to mov ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-29T22:32:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-29T23:01:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1675018959.96.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera speaks against harmful cultural practises\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-29T22:32:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-29T23:01:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\"},\"wordCount\":378,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1675018959.96.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"Featured\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-speaks-against-harmful-cultural-practises\",\"name\":\"Chakwera speaks against harmful cultural practises - 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