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Author : John McCracken
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1847010504
This title features a general history of Malawi, focusing mainly on the colonial period, when it was know as Nyassaland, but placing that period in the context of the pre-colonial past.
Author : Bridglal Pachai
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Luke Messac
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190066199
Using the political and medical history of Malawi as a fundamental example, Luke Messac explains relationship between a nation's political history and its approaches to health care.
Author : Ad Konings
Publisher : TFH Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Cichlids
ISBN : 9780866225274
The most ambitious work ever on the fishes of Lake Malawi.
Author : Sarah De Capua
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822585758
Describes the geography, history, people, culture, and political issues of Malawi.
Author : Philip Briggs
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1784770140
This is an invaluable guide for all visitors to this most explorable, affordable and tranquil of African countries - Malawi
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Botany, Medical
ISBN : 9783825826376
Although it rarely receives the attention it deserves from anthropologists, medical herbalism is perhaps the most widespread and most ancient form of therapy. This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi. Offering the first comprehensive examination of medical herbalism in Malawi, this study combines anthropological and botanical insights into medical herbalism. The book is divided into two parts: the first outlines the ethnographic context of the herbalist tradition with discussion of Chewa ethnobotany and the local classification of plants; the various categories of medicine that are expressed in the local culture; the nature and scope of folk herbalism, its practitioners and its relation to biomedicine; local conceptions of disease; and beliefs relating to witchcraft and divination. The second part, which incorporates the researches of a Malawian chemist, Dr Jerome Msonthi, contains detailed information on over 500 Malawian plants with notes on their local names, distribution, botanical descriptions and various medicinal uses.
Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release :
Category : Travel
ISBN : 5832854608
Malawi is a landlocked country located in southeastern Africa. It is one of the smallest countries on the African continent, with a total population of around 19.13 million people. The country is bordered by Tanzania to its northeast, Zambia to its west, and Mozambique to its east and south. Malawi is known for its natural beauty, including Lake Malawi, which is the third-largest lake in Africa and the ninth-largest lake in the world. Malawi was previously known as Nyasaland, a British protectorate. The country gained independence in 1964 and has since become a democratic republic with a multi-party political system. Malawi's economy is predominantly agricultural, with a large portion of the population involved in subsistence farming. Despite some economic progress in recent years, Malawi is considered one of the poorest countries in the world, with high levels of poverty, unemployment, and gender inequality.
Author : J. M. Schoffeleers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299133245
The culmination of years of fieldwork in southern Malawi, River of Blood reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the fascinating intersections of an indigenous belief system with European Christianity. In the cult of Mbona, the central African mythology of the snake that is beheaded to make the rains come has been combined with a more spiritual interpretation: the snake has been transformed into a human martyr and redeemer. According to the cult, the rainmaker Mbona was tracked down by his enemies; they cut off his head, and his blood formed the River of Blood. Mbona returned as a storm wind and asked that a shrine be dedicated in his name. J. Matthew Schoffeleers recounts how the Portuguese presence in Zambezia in the period 1590-1622 led to more than three decades of internecine warfare and caused the people of southern Malawi tremendous suffering. In response to this political oppression and social upheaval, Schoffeleers shows, the people looked to Mbona, their "black Jesus," for redemption. Beyond reconstructing the cult's genesis, Schoffeleers traces its recent history, particularly in political context. He provides texts of seven cult myths from different historical periods in both Chimang'anja and English. His analysis presents the Mbona myth as a continuous social construction and deconstruction. Emphasizing the impact of political and spiritual oppression on the cult, he distinguishes between the differing versions of the myth preserved by the aristocracy and by the commonalty and demonstrates how these disparate views unite to preserve historical information. In so doing, he shows that cults serve as valuable repositories for historical information.
Author : Mwakasungura, Kapote
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9996045196
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.