Our clearing agent, having just realised that his "duty free" bonus was long gone, does his best to calculate our duty on a calculator with no numbers on the buttons.
Getting Charitable Donations through Malawi Customs Part 2 (Day 3) September 8th 2006 Day 3 - 8th September - Patience Wearing Very Thin
Up and away before the Kiboko overlanders awoke and a breakfast stop with Manasseh’s (Mr Chiumia and me were getting to know each other much better by now) daughter in a ragged suburb of Lilongwe.
We rocked up to the Air Cargo depot at 8.30 and were immediately surrounded by clearing agents trying to get our business. A bit of negotia ... read more
Africa » Malawi » Central » Lilongwe Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964. After three decades of one-party rule under President Hastings Kamuzu BANDA the country held multiparty elections in 1994, under a provisional... ... read more