Malawi S Lost Years 1964 1994

Author : Mwakasungura, Kapote,Miller, Douglas
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789996045196

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Malawi's Lost Years (1964-1994) by Mwakasungura, Kapote,Miller, Douglas Pdf

Malawi is a small and poorly known country, but the crimes committed against its people by the brutal dictatorship of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda are a part of our shared human history. It is about what happens when governments turn state violence on their own people with impunity. The book gives voice to Malawians who were arbitrarily imprisoned, who fled for their lives into exile, or who suffered silently under the regime's state-sponsored terror from 1964 to 1994. These are not easy stories for the victims to tell and people in power do not want them to be made public. To add to the indignity endured by the regime's victims, Malawi's current leadership has been rehabilitating Banda's image and honouring him, despite well-documented reports of atrocities and abuse of human rights. Nevertheless, even unpleasant history must be openly faced, discussed and acknowledged to provide lessons for the future. The book helps redress this one-sided revision of Malawian history. Fifty years after independence, the Malawi people continue to suffer in absolute poverty and in greater numbers than ever, because the lessons of history from Malawi's lost years have not been learned.

Author : Kapote Mwakasungura,Doug Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Malawi
ISBN : 9996046214

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Malawi's Lost Years (1964-1994) and Her Forsaken Heroes by Kapote Mwakasungura,Doug Miller Pdf

Author : Sandra Dahlke,Nikolaus Katzer,Denis Sdvizhkov
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783737012485

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Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Sandra Dahlke,Nikolaus Katzer,Denis Sdvizhkov Pdf

The volume contains selected contributions to the Max Weber Foundation’s annual conference, organised by the German Historical Institute Moscow. The contributors look at the crisis-ridden processes of modernity through the prism of individual biographies, which manifest themselves in national and social, anti-imperial and de-colonial, global, and regional movements. The contributions cover the Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empires, Germany, Italy, the USA, France, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, Turkey, and Africa. They focus on transnational and trans-imperial life paths, networks and the imprints of the actors as well as forms of (auto)biographical self-constitution and the political use of biographical narratives.

Author : Ross, Kenneth R.,Mulwafu, Wapulumuka O.
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789996060786

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Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi by Ross, Kenneth R.,Mulwafu, Wapulumuka O. Pdf

With the death of John McCracken in 2017, Malawi lost a pre-eminent historian. This book celebrates McCracken’s contribution to the study of Malawi’s history and seeks to build on his legacy. Part of his genius was that he identified themes that hold the key to understanding the history of Malawi in its broader perspective. The authors contributing to this volume address these themes, assessing the progress of historiography and setting an agenda for the further advance of historical studies. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and all who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Malawi’s past and present.

Author : Philip Briggs
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781784776367

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Malawi by Philip Briggs Pdf

This new eighth edition of Bradt's Malawi remains the only standalone practical guidebook to this magical East African destination, long known as the 'warm heart of Africa' (and the first country outside Denmark to have a Carlsberg brewery). Malawi is a small country with a big lake - accounting for around a third of its territory - and a big welcome. Written by Philip Briggs, arguably the world's most experienced guidebook author, this new edition benefits from a thorough country-wide update of all the practical information, with the addition of significant new game park accommodation. Dedicated chapters on background information, health and flora and fauna are complemented by a 19-chapter breakdown of the country and 37 maps, making this an ideal companion for backpackers, over-landers, wildlife spotters, birdwatchers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Included in the guide are the many outstanding adventure opportunities: kayaking on the vast lake amongst dug-out canoes; hikes from tea estates up to the heights Mount Mulanje; and watching the 'big five' animals in wonderful natural surroundings. There's also a resurgent music scene, intriguing monuments built by former colonisers and compelling village culture to discover. With the reintroduction of species including lions - and the recent translocation of large numbers of elephants to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve - Malawi is a wildlife destination to savour. From luxury camps to local guesthouses, from rhino trekking to cycle tours and from crafts to cultural tourism, Bradt's Malawi covers every aspect of your trip.

Author : R. Ross,Lorraine Chiweza
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789996076084

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Beyond Impunity by R. Ross,Lorraine Chiweza Pdf

This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

Author : Matthias Rompel,Reimer Gronemeyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786995889

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Malawi by Matthias Rompel,Reimer Gronemeyer Pdf

Malawi is one of the poorest countries on the globe. Subsistence agriculture remains at the very heart of its social fabric, and also lies at the root of its tremendous poverty. Yet while Malawi is among the worst performers in terms of per capita income and infant mortality, it is also a surprising leader in other areas (such as freedom of the press), has enjoyed over fifty years of relative stability since independence, and still holds great potential for economic development. Bringing together some of the leading experts on the country, this collection offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Malawi, encompassing its economy, culture, and politics. An invaluable resource for scholars and development professionals alike, the book assesses the root causes of Malawi's impoverishment, and also offers insight into how the country might break out of its development impasse.

Author : Adamson Muula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Malawi
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121793769

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Malawi's Lost Decade by Adamson Muula Pdf

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Huiyao Wang,Lu Miao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785366086

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Handbook on China and Globalization by Huiyao Wang,Lu Miao Pdf

An excellent guide for understanding the trends, challenges and opportunities facing China through globalization, this Handbook answers the pertinent questions regarding the globalization process and China’s influence on the world.

Author : Peter Fuseini Haruna,Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317267546

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Public Budgeting in African Nations by Peter Fuseini Haruna,Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad Pdf

Public Budgeting in African Nations aims to provide usable budgeting and fiscal policy management information to development practitioners interested in improving the performance of governments in the context of good governance. It shares regional and cross-cultural experiences with international audiences and gives reflective attention to comparative budgeting and fiscal policy management. With a promising economic and fiscal forecast, such information is timely for international development practitioners and for scholars and researchers interested in advancing development management. This book adopts an interdisciplinary/pragmatic approach to analyze and present research findings on public budgeting as a sustainable development tool. The central argument is that development practice will benefit from a bottom-up, decentralized approach to budgeting and fiscal policy management, involving national, sub-national, and civil society institutions. From this perspective, a balanced budget should draw from and reflect values and priorities across the full spectrum of social and political life.

Author : Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030769246

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Challenging Authorities by Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa Pdf

When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.

Author : C. Banda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956764341

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Migration from Malawi to South Africa by C. Banda Pdf

Since the discovery and exploitation of minerals like gold, diamond and copper in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Malawi has played the role of a labour supplier. Malawians were attracted by the relatively higher wages obtaining in the South African mines up to the period of the decline in mine migrancy at the end of the 1980s. Following this decline, a cross-section of Malawians continued to emigrate to South Africa to seek various jobs in the burgeoning informal sector and also for trade purposes. Migration from Malawi to South Africa sheds light on the problems that labour migrants and traders encounter as they are toing and froing between Malawi and South Africa in pursuit of their respective goals. It shows that migration, which initially was exclusively done for wage employment, is becoming more complex by the day. This is a result of the infusion of elements of commercial migration, smuggling and human trafficking. The book advances the argument that the numbers of migrants to South Africa increased in the post-1994 period partly as a result of mal-administration by the successive democratically-elected governments in Malawi. This development weakened Malawis otherwise promising economy and impoverished the rural masses. The book sees forlorn hope in the future of labour migrants and traders, unless the Malawi Government starts to genuinely have the welfare of the populace at heart! The book is relevant and accessible to policy-makers, university and college students interested in migration studies, general readers and migrants, themselves.

Author : Ken Lipenga Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783031152511

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Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi by Ken Lipenga Jr. Pdf

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop. It studies the language and content of contemporary Malawian hip hop as a window onto the country's youth culture as Malawian young people negotiate what scholar Alcinda Honwana calls 'waithood,' or the condition, common among Malawian youth, of lacking opportunities to advance from a situation of dependence and being stuck in a state of relative childhood. The book argues that rap music made by Malawian youth music speaks of – and represents, through its very agency – their need to break out of this stagnant state. After situating Malawian hip hop with respect to both other musical genres in the country and to the nation's language in culture, Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi shows how Malawian youth use rap music to create a sense of community, which then becomes a foothold from which they can do activities that get them out of waithood and into the adult world, such as getting involved in the music industry, realizing electoral power, or participating in activism about issues such as violence against people with albinism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Hip hop has been a crucial tool for Malawian youth to build the skills, identity, and agency necessary to exercise their economic, cultural, and civic independence.

Author : Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415966672

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International encyclopedia of adolescence by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Pdf

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