Mario Antoine explores the origin and development of football in Malawi, previously known as Nyasland, in this book. Little is known about the humble beginnings of Malawi football and how two separate associations for Europeans and Africans drove its development. With other countries such as South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and Mauritius also having separate associations, this was not uncommon. The author highlights how the British, who travelled overseas to work and as missionaries, played a critical role in introducing football to Nyasland and other countries. After the British colony attained independence in 1964 and changed its name to Malawi, the sport continued to grow in popularity. As the years went by, apart from selected matches, games were played on a regular basis among Southern Region clubs, which formed the Indian Sport Club in 1920, followed by the Goans Club in 1928. Some of the families that pioneered the formation of the European association known as Nyasaland Football Association still grace the shores of this land today. Read more

In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units of information—such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers—acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise. Read more

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past. ‘The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.’ Daily Mail.‘“Livingstone’s Tribe” is excellent…Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion.’ Financial Times‘At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe…the whites of post-independence Africa.’ Independent on Sunday‘Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have.’ Guardian‘Stephen Taylor, a third-generation émigré of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures…as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.’ Daily Mail‘Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well.’ Sunday Times Read more

You are about to inmerse yourself in an exciting journey to the majestic African Lake Malawi.A research work on this mutant lake, unique in the world as its inhabitants, the colourful cichlids, have managed to adapt to it, with the consequent diversification and speciation.In this book I encourage aquarists to keep fish in aquariums respecting their biotope.With all that is involved in recreating a small bed of Lake Malawi, we will be helping the study and conservation of the species.A sustainable and responsible aquarium keeping, helping the cichlids to know who they are, where they come and why they are the way they are."Never has nature said one thing and wisdom said another".Décimo Junio Juvenal. Read more

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past.Meshing together Africa’s colonial history and the personalities of that time with his own memories of the turbulent twentieth century and its characters, Stephen Taylor will travel from Lake Victoria to the Cape of Good Hope – from the place that represents the peak of colonial exploration in Africa to the first settling place of his own family. His description and re-evaluation of the colonial period shows it in all its drama, glamour and disreputableness – a wilder version of the Raj.Through this present-day journey, Taylor will trace the legacy of Africa’s history and, in particular, of the place in it of the Whites. The journey will be a quest for understanding: of the colonial impulse, of his own curious ambivalence towards the great continent in which he grew up, and of the southern African countries’ – in particular South Africa’s – future. It will be a wonderfully evocative, lyrical description of some of the most dramatic lands in the world – thoughtful, historical, philosophical travel writing of the best kind. Read more

With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra Fuller's classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. Read more

Discover an exciting new experience with three different popular jigsaw puzzles for adults and teens.Mixed puzzles allow you to train your brain even better by changing the approach to solving each type of puzzle. It is not worth getting hung up on just one type of puzzles, as our brain quickly gets used to it and no longer receives the necessary training, and besides, it becomes boring.In the book you will find 317 Puzzles:80 x Kriss Kross Puzzles113 x Word Search Puzzles124 x Sudoku PuzzlesUS Letter sizePremium matte cover189 Pages of Professional Quality PuzzlesSolutions! Read more

This is the first attempt to comprehend the whole of Malawi's church history in a single volume. The focus of this book is about documenting the religious experience which was at the centre of founding the new nation of Malawi as we have come to know it. The book strikes a balance in covering issues pertaining to both mission activities and African agency. In many instances interesting pieces of evidence have been marshalled to corroborate or emphasize some of the conclusions reached. Read more

When Dr David Livingstone stepped foot in what is now Malawi, he played his part in the “Struggle for Africa”. A flood of missionaries and settlers would flock to this small, land-locked country in Southern Africa for the next hundred years. Some would come to spread the word of God, others would see this as the land of opportunity, where a man could make his fortune.In There is a lake called Nyassa, Rupert Wilkey brings the sixteen most important men to shape Malawi’s history. Some names like Livingstone, Rankin, Mackenzie, Maples, Laws, Stewart and Henderson arrived to spread Christianity through their churches and missions. Some like Buchanan, Bruce, Sharrer and Moir were here to make their fortune. Others like Young, Rhodes, Thornton, Johnston and Sharpe found their lives complicated by the actions of others. This book shows how intertwined many of these early sixteen men were, either to each other or that the actions of one had impacted on the life and indeed the death of another, sometimes decades later. There was intrigue, theft, lies, cover-ups, deception and even murder. In Malawi, even today, many of the names of these people are still visible on roads, buildings and schools, yet many of us don’t know who they were or what they contributed to warrant being immortalised around the country. Some, like Mackenzie and Thornton, gave their own lives for the good and safety of the people. Others like Buchanan and Sharrer used this new emerging country to create great wealth for themselves and their actions are still felt today in modern Malawi. Indeed their actions ultimately brought about the 1915 uprising which then led to Malawi gaining independence from Britain in 1964.The reader will be left to make up their mind on who were saints and who were villains and what their contribution really was.“There is a lake called Nyassa is a wonderful insight into the history of Malawi by someone who lived there for thirteen years.” Read more

A distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history. This is the first comprehensive history of Malawi during the colonial period. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, John McCracken places the history of Malawi within the context of its pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingstone, followed by the pioneer Scottish Presbyterian missionaries and including soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians, played an influential part in shaping Malawi. But even more important is the story of how Malawian people responded to the intrusion of colonialism and imperialism and the role they played in the dissolution of the colonial state. There is muchhere on resistance to colonial occupation, including religious-inspired revolt, on the shaping of the colonial economy, on the influence of Christian missions and on the growth of a powerful popular nationalism that contained within it the seeds of a new authoritarianism. But space is also given to less mainstream activities: the creation of dance societies, the eruption of witchcraft eradication movements and the emergence of football as a popular national sport. In particular, the book seeks to demonstrate the interrelationship between environmental and economic change and the impact these forces had on a poverty-stricken yet resilient Malawian peasantry. John McCracken is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Stirling University. He has taught at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, University College of Dar es Salaam and was Professor and Head of the Department of History at Chancellor College, University of Malawi from 1980-83 and returned as Visiting Professor in 2009. John McCracken was awarded ASAUK's Distinguished Africanist Award in 2008. Read more

This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule. Read more

Africa: A Guide for Teachers and Families is a carefully organized resource for teaching children and adolescents about African culture. This book is divided into geographical regions so each can be highlighted and contrasted. The songs, fairy tales, mythologies, biographies, art, and recipes are highlighted with practical activities for each grade including kindergarten. This is an invaluable book for teachers in elementary and high school as well as for home school parents. Based on this extensive, well-researched book, Waldorf teachers have created a full unit on Africa. Teachers and parents will welcome this updated and expanded 2022 edition of the successful book, Hear the Voice of the Griot!.This new and exciting edition makes the music, history, animals, and people of Africa come alive – as well as offering things you can make and do. Check out the interactive connections to YouTube videos, bringing Africa into your home and classroom. Read more

MALAWIAN MUSICIANS: A Look at an Eventful History, Past and Present."MALAWIAN MUSICIANS: A Look at an Eventful History, Past and Present" explores how Malawian music has evolved from its humble beginnings with handcrafted instruments. The book also looks at the lives of a few musicians from Malawi and mentions how many of them who were born with the creative gene have succeeded. The existence of recording studios has helped Malawians by enabling the creation of locally marketable records that are morally upstanding.Although Malawians are proud of their culture, history, languages, and way of life, it doesn't seem that their government feels the same way. In this respect, the book suggests that, as is the case in neighbouring nations like Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa, the country adopt a cultural strategy and create a music council.Readers obtain the following benefits by reading this book:• A full explanation of the beginnings of Malawian music, how it has changed through time, and the many musical styles that have formed are all included in the book. Readers will get a greater understanding of Malawi's rich musical past and learn about the distinctive cultural influences that have influenced Malawian music.• Readers are introduced to Malawian artists via the book, which tells the tales of numerous performers who have made important contributions to the growth of the nation's music industry. Readers will be motivated by these tales and get insight into the difficulties faced by Malawian musicians and how they have overcame them.• Knowledge of Malawi's recording business: The book examines Malawi's recording industry and how it has aided artists in creating high-calibre records that can be sold both locally and abroad. The technical developments that made this possible and how they affected Malawi's music business will be explained to readers.• Demand for a music council and cultural policy: The book emphasizes the need for Malawi's government to adopt a culture policy and create a music council. The value of such actions in promoting, protecting, and bolstering Malawi's music industry will become clear to readers.Overall, the book offers a distinctive viewpoint on Malawi's musical heritage as well as the chances and difficulties that local artists must deal with. If you are is interested in music, culture, or the arts in Malawi or elsewhere check out this book. Read more

Case Bound with dust jacket in full colour, size: 245mm x 184mm. 288 pages with 29 colour and 25 black and white photographs, 4x 4 colour fold out maps. Printed end papers, head and tail bands and ribbon. Read more

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. Read more

Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history. Read more

When Dr David Livingstone stepped foot in what is now Malawi, he played his part in the “Struggle for Africa”. A flood of missionaries and settlers would flock to this small, land-locked country in Southern Africa for the next hundred years. Some would come to spread the word of God, others would see this as the land of opportunity, where a man could make his fortune.In There is a lake called Nyassa, Rupert Wilkey brings the sixteen most important men to shape Malawi’s history. Some names like Livingstone, Rankin, Mackenzie, Maples, Laws, Stewart and Henderson arrived to spread Christianity through their churches and missions. Some like Buchanan, Bruce, Sharrer and Moir were here to make their fortune. Others like Young, Rhodes, Thornton, Johnston and Sharpe found their lives complicated by the actions of others. This book shows how intertwined many of these early sixteen men were, either to each other or that the actions of one had impacted on the life and indeed the death of another, sometimes decades later. There was intrigue, theft, lies, cover-ups, deception and even murder. In Malawi, even today, many of the names of these people are still visible on roads, buildings and schools, yet many of us don’t know who they were or what they contributed to warrant being immortalised around the country. Some, like Mackenzie and Thornton, gave their own lives for the good and safety of the people. Others like Buchanan and Sharrer used this new emerging country to create great wealth for themselves and their actions are still felt today in modern Malawi. Indeed their actions ultimately brought about the 1915 uprising which then led to Malawi gaining independence from Britain in 1964.The reader will be left to make up their mind on who were saints and who were villains and what their contribution really was.“There is a lake called Nyassa is a wonderful insight into the history of Malawi by someone who lived there for thirteen years.” Read more

Independent African, first published in 1958, is still one of the few serious attempts to write a history of an African Rising against European rule south of the Sahara. The career of the Reverend Joh Chilembwe, leader of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915, the origins, course and consequences of which are considered in this book, anticipated many of the problems of later generations of African politicians. Joseph Booth, the missionary who took John Chilembwe to America in 1897 and introduced him to a new world beyond the horizons of tribal society, typified the white critic whose good intentions sometimes had results never intended. The book also reveals a neglected aspect of African history: the influence of Black African nationalism, specially in regard to the "churches of the disinherited. Read more

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, who came to see Europeans as learners in Africa, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa. By immersing himself in the vernacular language and institutions, Scott developed a theology of reversals to pursue justice in race relations. It set him on a collision course with the Church, colonial government and the White commercial interests spearheaded by Cecil Rhodes. Harri Englund shows how Scott's struggle for justice was as much epistemic as political and spiritual - a vision for the future in which White and Black would thrive in their mutual recognition as co-knowers. From linguistic translation to conflicts over land and taxation, from slave trade to personal intimacies, Visions for Racial Equality weaves a rich tapestry of themes in the life and times of a little-known visionary. Read more