By Vincent Gunde
Social commentator Isaiah Emmanuel Sunganimoyo has announced to the public that effective 1st September, 2024 he has stopped working with the Chewa Heritage Foundation (CHEFO) and any other Chewa tribal grouping in Malawi.
Sunganimoyo has for years been fighting for unity among all the Chewas in Malawi as one, under one tribal grouping-CHEFO and rallying behind King of the Chewas His Majesty Kalonga Dr. Gawa Undi of Zambia.
He has now thrown his towel into the ring that the Chewas will never be united to preserve their culture and aspirations as one voice saying he sees no future to continue preaching for unity among the Chewas while the Chewa chiefs continue to be working in divisions.
Writing in a statement, Sunganimoyo has claimed that many Chewa chiefs and their subjects graced the Chewa-Kulamba ceremony at Mkaika in Eastern Province of Chipata in Zambia but after coming back home in Malawi, they have resorted to remain in their respective Chewa tribal groupings.
Sunganimoyo has observed that most of the Chewa chiefs are involving themselves into party politics, money has divided them saying this has made the Chewa leaders to lose their visionary philosophy of seeing them working as one in one Malawi.
He has claimed that he has for years been insulted and castigated left and right with other Chewa chiefs issuing death threats for his full support to Chewa Heritage Foundation observing that there was the time chiefs belonging to Chifukwato cha Chewa sent thugs to kill him.
The social commentator said the divisions which are being seen between the two Chewa tribal groupings CHEFO and Chifukwato cha Chewa will not end saying what is shameful is that in June, 2020 after President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera (Chewa) became President of the country, many Chewas in Malawi thought that the Chewas would now be united than before.
“For 4 years, the country under the leadership of President Chakwera, a Chewa himself, the Chewas are still living in divisions, there’s war going on among them, this is not healthy to one Chewa, one unity,” said Sunganimoyo.
He said he and many Chewas were expecting that President Chakwera would appoint Chewa Paramount Chiefs in the central region to end the divisions and perhaps bringing the two Chewa tribal groupings to a round-table discussions, but this has not been done.
Sunganimoyo has wished all the best CHEFO leaders and other Chewa tribal groupings appealing to them that there’s power in oneness, in unity there’s strength, divisions will take them to nowhere, urging them to build their Chewa tribe and culture as one.
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