Name: 地理の今!マラウイ (Geography Now! MALAWI)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:30.000Z
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Remember how in the Ghana episode, I told you that Ghana was like the perfect starting point for beginners interested in visiting Sub-Saharan Africa?

Well, Malawi is like the advanced level 10 version.

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Let's just say: If you come, you might be better off with a shovel and copper wire than a credit card.

Everyone I'm your host Barb's. Alright today, we're venturing into uncharted territory.

Most of you only know Malawi from being that country that

Madonna adopted those kids from? And literally like nothing else.

What if I told you Malawi was a place of inventors, innovators, people who take nothing and make something?

Now that's quite a prelude, isn't it? First the location. Let's begin...

From Malawi, water is actually sometimes more important than land.

Malawi is a narrow landlocked nation located in Southeast Africa surrounded by three other countries

as well as Lake Malawi to the northeast. The country is divided into 28 districts

which are categorized into three regions: North, Central where the capital Lilongwe resides

and Southern. The largest cities after the capital are Blantyre which has an interesting Scottish backstory and Mzuzu.

And the country actually has two international airports: Lilongwe International and Chileka International located in Blantyre.

Then we get to the famous Lake Malawi. Malawi takes this aptly named Lake very seriously

as in, they believe most of it should belong to them as they kind of treat it as such. See these two islands

right next to Mozambique: Likomo and Chizu-mulu? Yep, they belong to Malawi even though they lie in Mozambique waters.

It all had to do with the Heligoland treaty in 1890 back in the British Nyasaland days.

They assumed ownership of the entire lake after victory against the Germans from occupied Tanzania at the time.

A while ago, they issued a license for an oil company in what was Tanzanian claimed waters.

Tanzania: Dude, Malawi. Just chill. All right, it's just a lake

YEAH! You have Kilimanjaro, you have Lake Victoria, both you and Mozambique have access to the ocean a stable tourism industry.

This Lake is literally named after me, "Lake Malawi". Okay, it should belong to me!

Otherwise despite the low GDP, surprising Malawi has some decent avenues of land transport.

Like the M1 highway that traverses the entire length of the country north to south and most exports go through the

Central African railway network that passes through Malawi connecting through Zambia and Mozambique

offering them access to the Indian Ocean via the port city of Nacala in Mozambique. Otherwise some places of interest might include:

St. Michael and All Angels Church, the Chongoni rock art area, the Lilongwe wildlife trust,

the La Cavema art gallery, St. Peter's Cathedral, the way of the Cross Pilgrimage trail,

the Kumbali culture village, the Kungoni Centre for culture and art, the Parliament building, the culture and museum center of Karonga,

maybe one of the most iconic and kind of creepy landmarks: The leper tree which has a very dark story behind it as in

they would put lepers inside the tree and... yeah just look it up.

Sweet and uhh well, hopefully that didn't set the tone for the rest of the video because we got a lot of beautiful things to

cover in this next section. Transition slide.

powerhouse lake that takes up about a quarter of their entire territory.

First of all, the country lies almost completely within the Great Rift Valley that we've already studied many times

which was formed by the massive tectonic plates grinding against each other, allowing the huge chasm for the lake to be formed.

From there the longest river the Shire River flows south to Mozambique and connects to the greater

Zambezi, which is like a big deal for trade and export. From there about 75% of land lies on the Central African plateau

punctuated with hills and forests and grasslands. In the North you have the Nyika plateau and the rainiest part of Malawi.

To the south, you reach the Mulanje Massif and the Zomba plateaus, where you can find the tallest peak Mount Mulanje.

This place is very important to the country as it's not only the third largest lake and second deepest lake in Africa

but it holds more species of fish than any other lake in the world. Including over seven hundred species of cichlids.

The Chambo fish is usually seen as the most important one though as it's like the main fish used for food amongst the populace,

usually eaten with Nsima porridge or Kondowe as staples. Speaking of animals, the national animal is a Thompson's gazelle.

You can find nearly every species of endemic sub-saharan mammal species like The Big Five.

The term Big Five refers to the five species of African animals that are the most sought-after in Safaris for tourists.

They are: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and African buffalo.

You know what? Actually just finish it off, take the rest of the teleprompter. I'm out of here!

In addition to fishing, Malawi was one of the first countries in Africa to commercially grow tea and tobacco on a large scale.

To this day, they're the largest producer of Burley leaf tobacco, which is lower grade, but high nicotine content tobacco.

They're also the only country outside of Denmark to have a brewery for the national beer of Denmark, Carlsberg.

It was all because of a foreign minister that visit in 1966 who was like:

Foreign minister of Denmark: Happy Independence Day, Malawi!

Malawi: Thanks man! Great to have you here.

Foreign minister of Denmark: Alright, so what kind of beer do you guys have here?

Malawi: We had this Thobwa stuff mixed with fermented maize and millet. Check it out, man. You're gonna love it. You're gonna like it.

Foreign minister of Denmark: Oh, wow! (drinking)

Foreign minister of Denmark: Yeah, no ummm, yeah, I'm gonna show you the good stuff!

Now here's where things get a little hard to address but still remain factual:

Malawi usually ranks in the top five poorest nations in the world by nominal GDP.

This year, they just beat out the DRC and the Central African Republic.

Less than 20% of rural inhabitants have access to electricity and properly purified drinking water. That however in return has caused Malawi to become a

nation of pure innovators that take whatever they can and their surroundings to build off of it.

In many schools, they use clay to teach children how to mold shapes.

They use grass reeds as brushes to paint with a mixture of sugar and coloured dirt for art class.

You got guys like this guy, William Kamkwamba. His family couldn't afford to send him to school

so one day, he decided he wanted electricity for his village.

He went to the library every day and taught himself how to construct a wind turbine in 2007. Since then,

he's become a celebrity, wrote a book and was featured on TED Talks

and he's also built more turbines and water pumps for his village and other communities in Malawi.

And that my good friends is what an Malawian is like.

Malawi is nicknamed "the Warm Heart of Africa" and for a number of reasons

but mostly because the people and their hearts. There's just something about them.

The country has about 18 million people that has a third lowest GDP per capita as of 2018.

The country is made up of nine main ethnic groups and tribes, the largest being the Chewa, the Yao and the Lomwe.

Other groups make up the rest of the population

whereas 4% of the population make up other groups and non Africans like Whites and Asians.

They use the Malawian Kwacha as their currency,

They use a type G British style plug outlet and they drive on the left side of the road.

The country has two official languages: English and Chewa or "Chichewa" (also Nyanja).

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