Marshal Kandodo Madise is a holder of a BA (Media for Development) degree obtained from the University of Malawi and currently works as a Governance Officer at Blantyre Synod Church and Society Programme.
He has got an excellent command of both oral and written communication skills and he also has got a vast knowledge and experience of the Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal (PRCA), which is the new communication research method that utilizes field-based utilization techniques, interviews and group work to generate information for the design of effective communication programmes, materials, media and methods for development. The development courses that Marshal did in this rigorous course of study, gives him a good grasp of development issues such as poverty and inequality, gender, governance and human rights, climate change, HIV/AIDS to mention but a few.
Marshal boasts to have written many development articles that have been published in the country’s leading newspapers. He also does research on various topics and in 2006 and 2011 he worked as a research assistant at Northern Region Water Board in Mzuzu and Pakachere Institute of Health and Development Communication in Blantyre respectively. Currently, He is working with blantyre Synod Health and Development Commission as a Governance Officer under the Church and Society Programme. Marshal also worked on a research paper on how the media in Malawi has helped rural Malawians in understanding climate change issues.
Marshal Madise, 24, hails from Mzimba district, T/A Mtwalo, Madise Village in the northern part of Malawi. He underwent primary school education at various schools in Lilongwe, Dedza, Salima, Mzimba and Mzuzu. He was then selected to go to Katoto Secondary School in Mzuzu where he was later selected to go to the University of Malawi in 2006. Marshal has also attended several workshops and meetings concerning governance, gender, and Hiv/Aids. Marshal also loves working with people, especially rural people and he seems to have an ability to motivate them. He has worked on several projects with villagers in Many districts in Malawi. It is also interesting to note that Marshal is a fluent Tumbuka and Chewa speaker.
Currently Marshal is unmarried and in his leisure time, Marshal loves writing, reading, watching movies and football, listening to music, chatting with friends and he also enjoys traveling and sight seeing. His career objective is that he should be a development communication expert so that he contributes positively to the development of his country, which he loves so much.
CONTACTS
Marshal Kandodo Madise
E-mail: madise07@yahoo.com/marshalmadise@gmail.com
Cell: +265995361882
Thursday, July 16, 2009
SPEAKING AND THINKING DEVELOPMENT: CHANCELLOR COLLEGE INTRODUCES MEDIA FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Malawi is one of the poorest countries plagued by seemingly intractable social, economic and environmental problems. With a growing population of about 15 million people, Malawi is grappling in the midst of huge and erratic challenges. Although it seems now that Malawi’s economy is turning the corner, as the economic growth is slightly over 8 per cent, making it the world’s second largest growing economy, poverty in Malawi remains pervasive and millions of Malawians continue to live lives of deprivation and hardship.
There is a need to speak and think development in Malawi. There is a gasping need for development communicators in Malawi to facilitate the process of development so as to assist Malawi to move out from the dudgeon of poverty.
“Development communication refers to the initiative of applying communication to the process of development with the end goal of improving the quality of life of developing societies.”
It is against this background that Chancellor College in 2004 introduced a modern multidisplinary programme called Bachelor of Arts (Media for Development) in an effort to train media workers capable of addressing development issues in Malawi and the entire southern Africa.
Head of Language and Communication Department at Chancellor College, Sydney Kankuzi, who is also the coordinator for the Media for Development programme said the course draws its teaching expertise from the faculties of humanities, social science, education and law.
“Development is a multifaceted concept that crisscrosses all aspects of humanity so much that it tends to be studied from various academic and professional perspectives.” He said.
“The media for Development programme tackles development issues from the perspective of the media. It particularly explores how the media can best be used for critiquing, promoting, and where necessary transforming how various societies perceive development,” Said Kankuzi.
Kankuzi also said that to achieve these tasks the programme employs critical perspectives from various contributing disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, history, music, theatre, film studies, law, anthropology, development studies.
“The media for Development programme is designed to develop creative and critical human beings that are able to use various mediums of communication to highlight all sorts of development issues.”
“Its graduates are equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in video production, digital film production, radio programme production, media research, media writing and speech, media policy and law, programme and product analysis, evaluation, project planning and management, publishing just to mention a few,” said Kankuzi himself a holder of a masters degree in mass communication from Rhodes University in South Africa.
Quizzed on where the graduates of Media for Development can work, the soft-spoken Kankuzi said the skills that the graduates obtain prepare the prospective graduates to work in media and/or development organizations in various capacities such as media/communication management, media/development communication consultancy, media training, media/development planning, media/development research, media/development advocacy, development journalism and many more.
He further said that the Media for Development graduates are able to create their own jobs.
The Media for Development programme has already produced its first crop of its graduates and the graduates are selling like hot cakes on the labour market.
There is a need to speak and think development in Malawi. There is a gasping need for development communicators in Malawi to facilitate the process of development so as to assist Malawi to move out from the dudgeon of poverty.
“Development communication refers to the initiative of applying communication to the process of development with the end goal of improving the quality of life of developing societies.”
It is against this background that Chancellor College in 2004 introduced a modern multidisplinary programme called Bachelor of Arts (Media for Development) in an effort to train media workers capable of addressing development issues in Malawi and the entire southern Africa.
Head of Language and Communication Department at Chancellor College, Sydney Kankuzi, who is also the coordinator for the Media for Development programme said the course draws its teaching expertise from the faculties of humanities, social science, education and law.
“Development is a multifaceted concept that crisscrosses all aspects of humanity so much that it tends to be studied from various academic and professional perspectives.” He said.
“The media for Development programme tackles development issues from the perspective of the media. It particularly explores how the media can best be used for critiquing, promoting, and where necessary transforming how various societies perceive development,” Said Kankuzi.
Kankuzi also said that to achieve these tasks the programme employs critical perspectives from various contributing disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, history, music, theatre, film studies, law, anthropology, development studies.
“The media for Development programme is designed to develop creative and critical human beings that are able to use various mediums of communication to highlight all sorts of development issues.”
“Its graduates are equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in video production, digital film production, radio programme production, media research, media writing and speech, media policy and law, programme and product analysis, evaluation, project planning and management, publishing just to mention a few,” said Kankuzi himself a holder of a masters degree in mass communication from Rhodes University in South Africa.
Quizzed on where the graduates of Media for Development can work, the soft-spoken Kankuzi said the skills that the graduates obtain prepare the prospective graduates to work in media and/or development organizations in various capacities such as media/communication management, media/development communication consultancy, media training, media/development planning, media/development research, media/development advocacy, development journalism and many more.
He further said that the Media for Development graduates are able to create their own jobs.
The Media for Development programme has already produced its first crop of its graduates and the graduates are selling like hot cakes on the labour market.
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