Take Nashon Zimba, a 25-year-old peasant who grows maize, beans and tobacco on 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) in Chiponde, a small village in Kasungu district, north-west of Lilongwe.
The singer received a warm welcome at the Nkoko Primary School in the central tobacco-growing district of Kasungu on Tuesday where she had constructed a school block with the non-profit organisation, BuildOn, our reporter says.