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TEACHING IS A CALLING’: WHY TEACHERS ARE UNDERVALUED IN SOCIETY
Few professions are praised as often, and rewarded as rarely, as teaching. Every graduation speech thanks the teacher; every payroll queue reminds the teacher to wait. Almost every doctor, lawyer, pil
Liston Mpheza (Applied Linguistics PhD Candidate, Rhodes University)
October 6, 2026
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Justice Annabel Mtalimanja, Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission and CUNIMA 2026 Graduation Commencement Speaker
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THE NEURO-ECONOMIC HAZARDS OF DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE PROCESSES IN MALAWI
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