With Richard Chirombo:<\/p>\n
Gwaladi ndi <\/em>Gwaladi [there is no one like Gwaladi]!<\/p>\n This is what Joe Gwaladi likes to say; of course, in his songs.<\/p>\n That is why, when the world is taking one direction, Gwaladi takes the opposite one. Just that, instead of playing the role of a lone figure, he has a way of diverting the attention of those heading in the other direction.<\/p>\n Gwaladi has a genius for winning, whatever game it is. He has his own way of sneaking his interests into the affairs of other people, making them part of the Gwaladi gravity.<\/p>\n Well, if ever we wanted an example of Gwaladi sneaking his interests into the affairs of men and women, we just have to think about the Flames\u2019\u2014 I am talking of the junior Flames\u2014 loss to the young Chipolopolo at Kamuzu Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n When all hopes were on them\u2014 especially after the floods disturbance of the past two weeks\u2014 that they would \u2018deliver\u2019 the package of smiles to a nation in shock, they did what they know best: losing at home.<\/p>\n It was one pile of misery on top of another pile. How sad.<\/p>\n Anyway, if Malawians were looking for a saviour, they found one in Gwaladi, who strutted his stuff in Limbe minutes after the junior Flames lost it at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n Gwaladi, with loud speakers, took Limbe by storm, blasting music from tailor-made loudspeakers.<\/p>\n Gwaladi, at that free \u2018show\u2019, started with \u2018Tumbocid\u2019 and other songs, and people danced as if Zambia had not inflicted a painful blow on us.<\/p>\n Ah, did I say Gwaladi even talked of the junior Flames\u2019 loss, saying:<\/p>\n \u201cMusamade nkhawa ndi kugwa kwa matimu a pulasitiki. Akupanga ma alawansi amene aja. Inunso pangani zanu [do not stress when national teams lose a match. The players are not doing charity work; they get paid for doing it]!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMusandiyang\u2019ane choncho [do not look at me like that]!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!H a!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! <\/em><\/p>\n But this is not what made me know that Gwaladi ndi <\/em>Gwaladi. Far from it.<\/p>\n What did it, for me, is what he did next. He took memory cards from a colourless [Ha !Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!H a!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!<\/em>] leather luggage, blandished them and said: \u201cTiguletu apa! Ma memory card a nyimbo kale. Tikasangalale ku nyumba. Asiyeni ma Flames akhale ma Flames [Sale! Sale! Memory cards loaded with music. Let us make merry at home and let the Flames sleep on a bed of their miseries]!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I was like; I thought this was a \u201cfree show\u201d.<\/p>\n Gwaladi ndi <\/em>Gwaladi!<\/p>\n Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!H a!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! <\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, Gwaladi made our day on a day the junior Flames meant to spoil things.<\/p>\n Not that I bought a memory card. Who? Not me. I pulled a fast one on Gwaladi. I enjoyed free music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With Richard Chirombo: Gwaladi ndi Gwaladi [there is no one like Gwaladi]! This is what Joe Gwaladi likes to say; of course, in his songs. That is why, when the world is taking one direction, Gwaladi takes the opposite one. Just that, instead of playing the role of a lone figure, he has a way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75892,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889\/revisions\/75892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}