Further evidence of a dotcom boom in Malawi... Last week the students of Mzuzu University went on strike because they felt that they had not been provided enough access to computers by campus administration. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending upon how you look at it), Marissa and I were out of town at the time, in Tanzania. We have heard that the student strike was mostly peaceful. Students organized a sit-in and skipped classes. One of the days of the strike, however, things seem to have gotten a little out of hand. Students decided to burn old tires near the campus gate, so the police and some sort of weak tear gas became involved.

As a result of the strikes and demonstrations, the University administration has purchased and installed 10 brand new computers for the students.

Mzuzu University is well know throughout the country for being the most orderly of the universities. This type of unrest is very unusual here. The good news is that things, including the introduction to computer programming course that I am teaching, seem to be all back to normal now.