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| Title: | A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi |
| Editor: | Englund, Harri |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Issue: | 14 |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kachere book |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Publisher: | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |
| ISBN: | 9171064990; 9990816492 |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subjects: | 2000 social change politics democracy conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | After thirty years of autocratic rule under 'Life President' Kamuzu Banda, Malawians experienced a transition to multiparty democracy in 1994. A new constitution and several democratic institutions promised a new dawn in a country ravaged by poverty and injustice. The papers in this collective volume present original research on the economic, social, political and cultural consequences of the new era. A new generation of scholars, most of them from Malawi, cover virtually every issue causing debate in the New Malawi: poverty and hunger, the plight of civil servants, the role of the judiciary, political intolerance and hate speech, popular music as a form of protest, clergy activism, voluntary associations and ethnic revival, responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the controversies over women's rights. Both chameleon-like leaders and the donors of Malawi's foreign aid come under critical scrutiny for supporting superficial democratization. Contributors: Gerhard Anders, Blessings Chinsinga, Reuben Makayiko Chirambo, Harri Englund, Gregory H. Kamwendo, Edrinnie Kayambazinthu, John Lwanda, Jack Mapanje, Fulata Moyo, Clement Ng'ong'ola, Ulrika Ribohn, Peter VonDoepp. |
