Malawi: Mpinganjira: From Hero to Villain

28 June 2004
The Chronicle (Lilongwe)
column

Lilongwe — The story in the Bible that talks about a prodigal son who returned to his father after squandering his share of the father's wealth in a foreign country is currently apt and quite educative. It teaches us about the price that one pays for being overzealous with life.

Here was a father who had laboured with great fortitude to produce wealth for himself, his wife and his two sons but for reasons ranging from selfishness, arrogance and a quest for independence, the younger son forces his father to give him his share of his inheritance.

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