Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: Building Kwacha (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
Автор:Joey Power Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 352 ISBN: 158046310, 158046310X, 158046310X Inspired by the events leading up to the overthrow of Doctor Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Life Presidency, this book explores the deep logic of Malawi's political culture as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods. It draws on archival sources from three continents and oral testimonies gathered over a ten-year period provided by those who lived these events. Power narrates how anti-colonial protest was made relevant to the African majority through the painstaking engagement of politicians in local grievances and struggles, which they then linked to the fight against white settler domination in the guise of the Central African Federation. She also explores how Doctor Banda, the Nyasaland African Congress and its successor Malawi Congress Party (leader of independent Malawi for thirty years) functioned within this political culture and how the MCP became a formidable political machine. Central to this process was the deployment of women and youth to cut across parochial...
