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Bookmart
An excellent secondhand bookshop with a wide range of recent bestsellers, classics, and travel books. It also has a small coffee bar so you can have a latte while you browse.
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Central Africana
Has a diverse selection of travel, history and nature books. It also does a nice line in leather-bound, secondhand Africana books and old colonial-style maps.
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Central Bookshop
Sells a surprisingly good stock of African literature and local guidebooks.
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City Centre Shopping Centre
City Centre Shopping Centre , off Independence Dr, is a collection of buildings containing shops, travel agents, restaurants, a bank and a post office.
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Craft Market
There's a craft market outside the Old Town post office, where vendors sell everything from trinket woodcarvings, basketware and jewellery to traditional Malawi chairs. If you go late in the day you're likely to get a better deal.
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Crossroads Complex
Crossroads Complex is Lilongwe's newest shopping area and houses banks, a swanky hotel, minigolf, a variety of upscale shops, supermarkets and services, and a branch of the South African Steers.
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Kandodo Supermarket
There are decent supermarkets all over the city. Kandodo Supermarket has more limited and cheaper stock.
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Market
To see what Malawians buy go to the city's main market by the bus station. It's always lively and colourful, and is a great place to buy secondhand clothes, although photography is not appreciated. Note also that pickpockets operate in the crowds and that some visitors with large bags have been violently robbed, so travel lightly here.
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Nico Shopping Centre
Nico Shopping Centre has a bookshop, travel agency, pharmacy and several other shops.
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Old Town Mall
Old Town Mall houses a small corridor of shops including African Habitat, selling a variety of African arts and crafts, and Central Africana with an impressive selection of decorative and antique maps well worth framing.
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PTC Hypermarket
Near the City Centre Shopping Centre is the large PTC Hypermarket , where you can get everything from imported South African biscuits to camping supplies.
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Shoprite Supermarket
There are decent supermarkets all over the city. Shoprite in Old Town has the best range.
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TBS Bookshop
Sells international and local newspapers and magazines, and some paperback novels.
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