Ooh eeh
Eeh eeeh
Ooh ooh ooh
Nena, nena, nena
What is the way forward?
Kamba, kamba, kamba
What is the way forward?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
What is the way forward?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
What is the way forward?
Malawi my mother
Where does your pain, poverty, hunger and insecurity come from?
Tell me mama
Maybe it's what Louis Donaldson said
Politics without principles
Worship without sacrifice
Is it science without humanity?
Commerce without morality
Knowledge without courage
Pleasure without conscious
And of course wealth without work
My fellow Malawians this year marks 51 years since independence
And we find ourselves in that familiar spot
Where we have to do some stall taking
Let's look back at how far we have come from and where we are going
Looking around at our people today
Looking at all this poverty around us
Do we have anything to brag about?
Do we find anything to smile about? no
So i will begin by quoting the immortalness Mandela who said
"Poverty is not an accident like slavery and apartheid"
"It is a man made calamity and it can be removed by the actions of human beings and caused"
My dear country men
Our generation finds itself in the course a countries history
Zili ndi ife kuti tikonze dziko ili
We can either make or break this country
The decision is ours to make
And to do that, what this country needs is a revolution
It is time we held our leaders accountable
It is time we stopped our leaders from taking this country down the drain
The genesis of our poverty a trait for our to promise things which are not practical
We need plagiarism in this country
Which is why as a country we have too many subsistence that do not make sense
And which cannot be sustained by our economy
As a country we have become warfare state
Way back someone introduced a free hospital
But that hospital does not have medicine
Someone came and introduced free primary education
He removed his children from that primary school and send them to private school
And let the poor peoples children
Have the most degrading
The most depleted
The most, most devalued education system you can think about
A few years later someone came with a fertilizer substance
What did he do?
It made the budget so solemn
To a point a lot of commodities, basic commodities became unbearably expensive
Then they came another person
Who started building in the village
And that same system continues today
Someone wants to give cement and malata
Are we serious?
We're giving five houses to a village of a 1,000 people
Instead of fixing one borehole that will be giving water to a 1,000 people
Show me the list of your priority
How do you think?
Have you ever been in the village?
Growing up in the village a man with worked so hard so that he could harvest enough to send his children to school
Enough to build a house and enough to take his family to a clinic when they're sick
Koma boma likatimangira nyumba
Ndikumatipatsa feteleza
Ndimatipatsa malata ndi cement waulere
Choona chake anthufe
What will be a motivation to work?
What will make a man work so hard in his field to build a house
And what will make the other people have strength to work hard when others are having free cement and malata?
Malawians are naturally hard workers
All they need is a good environment to prosper
They do not need handouts
Give me no money, give me an opportunity to make money
Don't give me a gun for security, give me an environment that's peaceful
Don't give me a handout
Just stop stealing my tax pay as money
What our leaders need to do is to give our people the means to build houses and sustain themselves
Instead of telling our people into a warfare case
And the problem is of politics
The problem is when leaders are not thinking of transforming this country
But they're thinking of the next election,, that's all they think about
And all they demand is that the people entrusted in running the country on their behalf should put our taxes to goodness
But after every election we keep on betraying our people
Misusing the taxes with reckless abandon
We have evenly getmised government safety
Making it sound normal
And once again it's all because of the politics
I pray for the day when the government restore being the main client of business in Malawi
So much so that everyone is forced to align themselves with partying power in order to get business
This is indecent
I lorn for the day when government will revert to it's status of ensuring that this country is secure
That our people are fed and clothed
That our children are given access to education and health care
That there is good road for a farmer to take his produce to the market
And that there is equitable justice for all citizens no matter how poor or rich they are
No matter race or creed
No matter color of their skin
But this country will always look at a colour of this eye and not a colour of this
But as a country do we have a plan?
Where do you want to be in the next 50 years?
What is Malawian dream who can tell me?
What is our dream what is our plan to have achieve the dream?
Surely not cement and malata
Surely not one family one cow
And surely not free fertilizer
To do that when we need to transformer to British
As a country we need a blue print to guide us towards the future
And not just every president dragging us along towards their desire to pass
We need to take charge of our destiny
What happened to continuity?
Every president wants to start a new project
And another one will stop and abandon that project and start another project
How long are we going to be like this?
And today we are being called the number one poor country in the world
Do you sit and smile for that?
We have water, we have fertile land
What is it that we want?
God has given us everything
He has given us power, energy
What are we waiting for?
We are busy selling property, selling banks
All that we know is selling
Selling planes hehehe you sell a plane and buy maize
Nena, nena, nena
What is the way forward?
Kamba, kamba, kamba
What is the way forward?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
What is the way forward?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
What is the way forward?
Nena, nena, nena
What is the way forward?
Kamba, kamba, kamba
What is the way forward?
(Tell me, tell me, tell me)
(What is the way forward?)