Moses MphatsoWhy Preserve My Body, My “Life”It has been a while, and a lot has happened since the last time I wrote, 3 to 4 months shy of a year ago.10 min read·Apr 16, 2022--1--1
Moses MphatsoShort Reads: How [Post]Coloniality “Unqueered” Sexuality & Gender in MalawiOn Saturday June 26, 2021 a small but very important procession marched in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, towards the city…8 min read·Aug 3, 2021----
Moses MphatsoShort Reads: The Malawian — the Postcolony — as “Nothing”I move and live in this colonially confected demarcated world as nothing: a nothing that thinks, feels and dreams; a nothing that wrestles…10 min read·Jun 21, 2021----
Moses MphatsoShort Reads: My Fight Against Depression using Afro-Rhythm“I am because We are”3 min read·May 25, 2021----
Moses MphatsoDying Twice: A Womanist Rejoinder on the Weaponization of Martyrdom, on the Role of Memory in a…“People who are transgender, particularly transgender women of color, experience appalling levels of violence, and this violence is…7 min read·Apr 28, 2020----
Moses MphatsoAftermath of the Malawi General Election of May 2019 (Part 2) – Election Annulment by the Malawi…Correction: In my September 2019 piece with the same title, I had said there had only been two multiparty elections with an outright…16 min read·Feb 15, 2020----
Moses MphatsoAftermath of the Malawi General Election of May 2019 (Part 1) — Court Petitions and Large ProtestsBackground15 min read·Sep 14, 2019----
Moses MphatsoOf Corpses and Death: This Essay isn’t meant to be IntelligibleTwice, in the same living room — 8 years apart, I stared through the glass of a coffin at the lifeless bodies of first my mother and then…6 min read·Jun 10, 2019--1--1
Moses MphatsoOPINION: WHY MCP & UTM MIGHT NOT WORK TOGETHER IN PURSUIT OF A NULLIFICATION — ELECTORAL POLITICSBelow are a few brief remarks on the political incentives operating in the post-inauguration period in Malawi after the Malawi Electoral…5 min read·Jun 3, 2019----
Moses MphatsoLetter to a Fictional “God-Fearing” NationOpening Prayer: Dear God, any similarities to actual persons or events in this piece are purely coincidental. In Jesus’ name, Amen.5 min read·May 29, 2019----