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Society Malawi’s Chanco Professor: President Joyce Banda not sophisticated enough

Society Malawi’s Chanco Professor: President Joyce Banda not sophisticated enough


"If you keep on trusting that the solutions to your problems are going to come from outside, through donations and handouts, and not paying adequate to the technical, human, social, political, and financial resources you have internally – You are probably not sophisticated enough."
 Professor Wiseman Chijere Chirwa

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