Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi

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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.

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• Publié par: Mzuni Press
• Date de parution: 27 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789996060793
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi Essays in Honour of John McCracken

Edited by Kenneth R. Ross and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi

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Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi

Essays in Honour of John McCracken

Editors Kenneth R. Ross and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

Senior Consulting Editors Kings M. Phiri and Klaus Fiedler

Mzuni Books no. 40 Mzuzu 2020

Contents Notes on Contributors 9 Introduction: John McCracken and Malawi's History  Kenneth R. Ross and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu 17 John McCracken: an Africanist to Remember John Lonsdale 31 John McCracken: an Historian to Remember 34 Megan Vaughan John McCracken: a Malawianist to Remember 41 Kings M. Phiri John McCracken and the Development of Malawi Historiography 56  Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu Medicine, Politics and Christian Networks:John McCracken and the Historiography of Medicine in Malawi 75 Markku Hokkanen The Development of Malawian Church Historiography 92 Klaus Fiedler State Power, African Agencyand Peasants’ Food Security in Early Colonial Malawi, 1891-1918 116 Bryson Nkhoma

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"Africa Is an Education": Vernacular Language and the Missionary Encounter in Nineteenth-Century Malawi  Harri Englund 138 Mothercraft in the DRCM:MthengaNewspaper, Missionary Wives and African Women Hendrina Kachapila 163 "Theywere kept outside but their interest was inside": Examiningthe Role of African Women in the Construction of Social Identities in Colonial Malawi. 191 Dorothy Tembo The Contested Legacyof Malawi’s Decolonization Process, 1944-1994 215 Paul Chiudza Banda and Gift Wasambo Kayira Christianityand Nationalism in Karonga Hills: The Tale of Two Brothers During the Late Colonial Period 1954-1960 243 Augustine Chingwala Musopole Limits to State Power in Post-independence Development in Malawi, 1964-1983 266 Gift Wasambo Kayira Pastors, Priests, Prophets: Povertyand Christian Religion in Malawi 1861 to 2018 293 John Chipembere Lwanda The Influence of Christian Religious Authorityin Education: A Trajectoryof Religious Education in Malawi Schools from 1875 to 2018 320  Macloud Frank Salanjira 5

African Agency in Malawian Neocharismatic Churches 345 Felix Nyika Dividingthe Nation or PromotingUnity? Ethnic Based Associations and Production of Heritage in Malawi 372 Mwayi Lusaka John McCracken’s Contribution to Malawi’s Urban History 396 Ruth Mandala Ecological Change and Food Security: State Interventions into Peasant Agriculture in Colonial Malawi, 1891-1960 419 Bryson Nkhoma Andrew Ross,John McCracken andJack Thompson: Three Malawi Historians and their Influence on Scotland-Malawi Relations Today 445 Kenneth R. Ross John McCracken Bibliography 471 General Bibliography 476 Index 509

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Acknowledgements A volume like this one depends on an extensive network of collabo- ration and we recognize our indebtedness to manywho haveplayed apart in its development. First of all, we wish to acknowledge the constant encouragement ofJuliet McCracken duringthe conception andpreparation of the book. We also appreciate the work of Dr Ger- hard Anders and his colleagues who organized the conference held at the Universityof Edinburgh on 26 April 2018 on "Politics, Society and Christianityin Malawi and Beyond: A Memorial Conference for John McCracken andJack Thompson." Several of the chapters in the present volume had their first airing at that conference. We are thankful also to all who responded to the call forpapers that we issued with this volume in view. The extent of the response to this call bears witness to the debt that manyscholars feel that theyowe to the work ofJohn McCracken. Even those that could not be included helped to sharpen our thinking. The authors whojourneyed with us have been unfailinglyunderstandingand supportive as we imposed often short deadlines duringthe various stages of revision entailed in the editorialprocess. As we have exercised editorial responsibility, we have beengrateful to be able to turn to our senior consultingeditors, Prof Kings M. Phiri and Prof Klaus Fiedler, who always offered sound advice. The latter has also been an exceptionally sympatheticpublisher through his role at Mzuni Press. GivenJohn McCracken’s consistent concern that his work be available to Malawian readers, we believe that Mzuni Press is an idealpublisher for this book since itpublishes in Malawi while also having an international outlet through the London-based African Books Collective. Though a relativelyyoung publisher, Mzuni Press has built upim an pressive list of titles to which we are delighted that this volume can be added. It has been a pleasure to work with the Mzuni Press team,particularly Hope Kaombe, who did much of the work on layout and formatting, and

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Daniel Neumann who undertook the cover design. We are also truly grateful for the award of agrant to support thepublication from The Drummond Trust, 3 Pitt Terrace, Stirling, Scotland, UK. Kenneth R. Ross Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu Zomba, December 2019

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Notes on Contributors

Paul Chiudza Banda received his PhD in HistoryWest from Virginia University, USA. He haspreviouslypublished book chapters andjournal articles. Some of these can be found inTheJournal ofPublic Administration and Development Alternatives; TheJournal ofthe Middle East and Africa; African StudiesQuarterly;andThe SocietyofMalawiJournal.He is also a columnist forThe Diplomatist Magazine. Harri Englundis Professor of Social Anthropologyat the Univer- sity of Cambridge, UK. His books includeFrom War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland;Prisoners of Freedom;Human Rights and African Airwaves;Gogo Breeze. In 2000, he invitedJohn McCracken and Kings M. Phiri tojoin him as the organizers of a major conference at Chancellor College, Zomba, sponsored by the Nordic Africa Insti- tute. One result of the conference was Englund’s edited volumeA Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi. Klaus Fiedler, born in 1942 in Germany, read Theologyat the Bap- tist SeminaryHambur in g. He received his formative education at Makerere Universityin Uganda, and did his PhD with Dar-es-Salaam University. He worked for 8years in South Tanzania as a missionary, and after 16years in Germanyhe returned to Africa with a DTh from HeidelbergUniversity, taught 15years at Chancellor College of the Universityof Malawi and 12years at Mzuzu Universityin Northern Malawi. His main interests are postgraduate studies and publishing. Markku Hokkanen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Oulu, where he teaches colonial history, African history, health history and methodology. Hokkanen’s research has focused on Malawi, Southern Africa and the British

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