Beyond the dark veil: Hope and despair in Bright Molande's Seasons

The focus of this article is on Bright Molande's impressions of Malawi's post-dictatorship era of Bakili Muluzi in Seasons (2010), his first poetry anthology. The author argues that Molande uses his poetry to tease out elements of hopelessness and despair in the Muluzi regime, thereby giving us the impression that freedom in the second republic was an illusion. The author also examines the poet's projection of the idea of hope in the post-Muluzi regime and contends that espousing the bettering of Malawi under Bingu wa Mutharika is the poet's commitment in his poetry.