Moya Malamusi, who won the Arts Award in the 2016 Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Innovations Awards, has said he is happy that the country has decorated him.<\/p>\n
Malamusi, who is in Austria, said he never saw an award coming his way and that it was unfortunate he was not there to receive it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you just have to be patient. I didn\u2019t know that the work I am doing is being monitored. The Chileka project, where we are preserving music, started in 1989,\u201d said Malamusi.<\/p>\n
Malamusi said his late sister, Lidiya, was interested in story-telling and collecting stories from other story tellers dating back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe both made many recordings of story-telling sessions as well as music and dances,\u201d said the anthropologist.<\/p>\n
He said the Oral Literature Research Programme\u2019s objective is the systematic contextual recording and documentation of orally transmitted African cultural traditions, notably oral literature, including story-telling, riddling, proverbs, sayings, song, dance, musical instruments, local technologies and ritual events.<\/p>\n
The centre in Chileka, Blantyre, includes an office, archival collection, guest rooms for researchers and a special building \u2013 Jacaranda House\u2014 serving as a Museum of Ethnographic Objects that is open to schools and students.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Arts Award went to visual artist Elson Kambalu, who is the owner of La Galleria in Lilongwe. The visual artist is set to release a movie Mlandu Wa Njinga.<\/p>\n
Several people were decorated in the MBC Innovations Awards, with Malawi Queens coach Griffin Saenda claiming the overall Innovators of Innovators on top of the Sports Award.<\/p>\n
Just like all the other winners in various categories, Malamusi received in absentia a certificate, trophy and K1 million.<\/p>\n
He is also expected to go to China.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to say thank you to everybody who contributed to this award. I am very happy and I say thank you to MBC,\u201d Malamusi said.<\/p>\n
Malamusi, who earned his masters degree in ethnopology (cultural anthropology) from the University of Vienna in Austria in 1999 is expected back home in February.<\/p>\n
Every year Malamusi and other members visit Austria and Germany for performances but also lecturers.<\/p>\n
The trips started in 1979 and were spearheaded by Donald Kachamba, who used to go around the world playing music.<\/p>\n
This is why the Kachamba brothers of Donald and Daniel will always be part of the country\u2019s music history.<\/p>\n
They helped uplift the country\u2019s music including exposing it outside the country.<\/p>\n
Through Donald who used to play the clarinet was born in the Kwela Heritage Jazz Band.<\/p>\n
The band still exists but usually plays outside with Austrian ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik, who used to perform with the Kachamba brothers who were driving the project.<\/p>\n
Apart from Malamusi, the other members are Sinos Mulendo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have five gigs and three lecturers in Germany coming up and I have already had lecturers at the University of Vienna,\u201d Malamusi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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