{"id":758,"date":"2011-02-28T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2011-02-28T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:41:56","slug":"the-african-dream-auctioned-at-mk-2500000-000-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/28\/the-african-dream-auctioned-at-mk-2500000-000-00\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AFRICAN DREAM AUCTIONED AT MK 2,500,000.00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Prof Bingu Wa Mutharika African Dream from Poverty to Prosperity book was auctioned at a whooping MK 2,500,000.00 by a man of Asian origin.<br \/>\nThe auction for the book had initially started at MK100, 000.00 with bidders raising the stakes up until they couldn\u2019t bid anymore.<br \/>\nThe book was autographed by His Excellency and lives to be a great memory for the highest bidder.<br \/>\nDuring the pledge of the book, the grand marquee went into cheers and jeers when retired politician Gwanda Chakuamba pledged to buy The African Dream from Poverty to Prosperity at a MK100, 000.00. It was however not known as to whether the cheers were an honest gesture or just mere mockery for the grey haired Lower Shire man.<\/p>\n<p>The event just like any other overrated function, it never felt short of drama and the many lighter moments.<br \/>\nIt all started with one MC who maybe because of having such a huge appetite failed himself by mispronouncing steam fried rice for \u2018steam flied lice\u2019 sending a good sect of the audience into laughter. As rounds of whisky, overmeers, took the better part, brainwashing people\u2019s beveraged minds real characters started to emerge.<br \/>\nThe after party saw a couple of performances from Joseph Tembo and Nophiya Band, Joseph Nkasa.<br \/>\nHowever, it was Nkasa who enjoyed a great audience on the dance floor with the first couple taking on stage as he ditched pieces like Mose wa lero, mwamuona bwanji mtsogoleri, pincode before taking the crowd into a gospel medley ndidzakuyamikani mulungu wanga.<\/p>\n<p>Final analysis of the whole event would be a success however such sober events are sometimes over taken by the inability and short sightedness of failing to distinguish from a party function to a public function.<br \/>\nOtherwise; Happy birthday Mr. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Prof Bingu Wa Mutharika African Dream from Poverty to Prosperity book was auctioned at a whooping MK 2,500,000.00 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}