1st Edition
Malawi Enduring Concerns and New Directions
Introduction— Protectorate, Dictatorship, Democracy: Reflections on Malawi’s Past and Present
Jessica Johnson and Zoë Groves
Section 1: Rethinking Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi
1. Birthing a Nation: Political Legitimacy and Health Policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi, 1962-1980
Luke Messac
2. The Radical and Reactionary Politics of Malawi’s Hastings Banda: Roots, Fruit and Legacy
Clive Gabay
3. Remembering Kamuzu: The Ambiguity of the Past in Malawi’s Central Region
Daniel Wroe
Section 2: Rural Development and Agricultural Production
4. Yielding Trouble: Development Dilemmas and the Political Uses of Bad Data in Malawi, 1964-1978
Geoffrey Traugh
5. ‘The Native is the Producer of the Future’: Improving Peasants’ Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859-1939
Bryson G. Nkhoma
6. The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi
Blessings Chinsinga
Section 3: Power and Politics from pre- to post-colony
7. Chieftaincy in Malawi: Reinvention, Re-emergence or Resilience? A Kasungu Case Study
Joey Power
8. Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s-1950s
Gift Wasamba Kayira
9. ‘The General from Fort Hill’: Katoba Flax Musopole’s Role as an Anti-Colonial Activist and Politician in Malawi
Owen J.M. Kalinga
Section 4: Malawi and the Southern African Region
10. Central African Immigrants, Imperial Citizenship and the Politics of Free Movement in Interwar South Africa
Henry Dee
11. ‘Totemless Aliens’: The Historical Antecedents of the Anti-Malawian Discourse in Zimbabwe, 1920s–1979
Anusa Daimon
Section 5: ‘Culture’ and Cultural Production
12. Malawi in Verse: Authenticity, African Literature, and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms
Lupenga Mphande
13. The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management Leadership in Malawi
Ken Junior Lipenga
14. The Invention of ‘Harmful Cultural Practices’ in the Era of AIDS in Malawi
Cal (Crystal) Biruk
Afterword
John Lwanda
Biography
Zoë Groves is Lecturer in Modern Global, Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Leicester, UK, and Research Associate at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on migration, urban history and popular culture in Southern Africa. She is author of Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965: Tracing Machona (2020).
Jessica Johnson is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of In Search of Gender Justice: Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi (2018) and co-editor of Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing imaginaries and Contested Practices (2018).
