Malawi

This book explores Malawi's recent history in light of longer-term historical developments, contributing important new insights to debates about migration, citizenship, chieftaincy, language, cultural practice, anti-colonialism and nationalism.

Introduction- Protectorate, Dictatorship, Democracy: Reflections on Malawi's Past and Present 1. Birthing a Nation: Political Legitimacy and Health Policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Malawi, 1962-1980 2. The Radical and Reactionary Politics of Malawi's Hastings Banda: Roots, Fruit and Legacy 3. Remembering Kamuzu: The Ambiguity of the Past in Malawi's Central Region 4. Yielding Trouble: Development Dilemmas and the Political Uses of Bad Data in Malawi, 1964-1978 5. 'The Native is the Producer of the Future': Improving Peasants' Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859-1939 6. The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi 7. Chieftaincy in Malawi: Reinvention, Re-emergence or Resilience? A Kasungu Case Study 8. Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s-1950s 9. 'The General from Fort Hill': Katoba Flax Musopole's Role as an Anti-Colonial Activist and Politician in Malawi 10. Central African Immigrants, Imperial Citizenship and the Politics of Free Movement in Interwar South Africa 11. 'Totemless Aliens': The Historical Antecedents of the Anti-Malawian Discourse in Zimbabwe, 1920s-1979 12. Malawi in Verse: Authenticity, African Literature, and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms 13. The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management Leadership in Malawi 14. The Invention of 'Harmful Cultural Practices' in the Era of AIDS in Malawi Afterword