Mayaya is the man
Without beating about the bush, activist Billy Mayaya is the man. He is the only Malawian so far that I have seen that is able to stand up to government whenever there are injustices. He does not mope about economic or social ills prevalent in the country on Facebook, Twitter or within the confines of his home, he publicly expresses his displeasure at a government that pays a blind eye to sufferings of Malawians. Mayaya does not wait until the streets are filled with people to validate his cause, he simply does what he feels needs to be done at a particular time. While the rest of us the timid sit and watch even though we know things are going wrong, Mayaya is not afraid to pick up his placard and march in the streets even if it means doing it alone with a horde of people laughing at him. He does not relent—now that is courage that is not in many of us. We are good at complaining behind we rarely pluck enough courage to face them. It’s either we cultivate this habit or politicia