Elvis is alive and well! The King made a guest appearance at a fund raiser in town this weekend for the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre.
While the King revived some old favourites, the Lilongwe mzungu crew rocked out at The Shack and a good time was had by all.
Ladies and gentleman, Elvis has left the......
Being a New Yorker and having spent the last two years in a city so large, it was of indeterminable size (best guess on Kinshasa: somewhere between 6 and 10 million), life in Lilongwe is dramatically different. For starters, if you didn’t know where City Centre was, you wouldn’t know you’d driven straight through the middle of it.
Lilongwe, despite only having about 600,000 residents, is about as sprawling as African capitals get in the sheer sense of distances between anything of significance. To get to a friend’s house in an adjacent neighbourhood, one more or less has to drive through the bush.
Case 1: Just the other night on the way home to Area 43 from Area 10 (they are next to each other and I’ll come back to this), I saw a snake in the road. For those...