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Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2002)
One of the major effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Malawi as in sub-Saharan African in general is the rising number of orphans. Development practitioners and scholars interested in the topic argue that there is a total breakdown in family structure
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https://doaj.org/article/3a15fa6bf1ed44ac90e9424f8c2e21a4
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2001)
The paper describes how party politics has appropriated performances of popular art to create and entrench oppressive political culture in Malawi. Performances of popular culture were already used during the struggle for independence, and such practi
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/225ab6a8b82848e884424d9565580c5f
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1 (1999)
This article starts with a description of an event and its causes, as reported in the Malawi News, Malawi's leading weekly paper, on March 21st 1998. The event took place at Zomba, the country's colonial capital. The story is that: two ex-miners,
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https://doaj.org/article/4f429d3336bb4c0fa9b3e5e421129554
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Journal of African elections. 4:43-60
There is a growing academic interest in the connection between elections and democratic governance in Southern Africa, and Africa as a whole (see, for example, Asmal and De Ville 1994; Hyden 1997; Harris and Reilly 1998; Brito 2003; Darga 2004; Makoa
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Development Southern Africa. 19:307-327
Over the last one-and-half decades Malawi has experienced frequent food shortages due to droughts, the effects of the influx of refugees from neighbouring Mozambique, and official policies that emphasised export-oriented cash crop production. To enha
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
African Affairs. 97:53-79
Between 1988 and 1992 about 13000 Malawian mine migrant workers were repatriated from South Africa. The official reason given was that in the previous 2 years some 200 of them had tested HIV/AIDS positive. The South African Chamber of Mines requested
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
International Migration Review. 31:628-654
This article is about the process of socioeconomic transformation in rural Malawi. It examines the survival strategies and enterprising spirit of Malawian migrant workers and their households. It argues that the strategies of these people often went
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Modern African Studies. 34:623-642
In April 1974, 74 Malawian migrant labourers returning from work in South Africa died in a plane crash in Francistown, Botswana. Immediately, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the then [Life] President of Malawi, banned all labour recruiting activities in hi
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
African Affairs. 95:351-377
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES how issues of socio-economic class, race and politics were densely interwoven with the competition for fishing rights, access to land, and fears of ecological degradation along southern Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) from the early
Autor:
Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Southern African Studies. 19:662-680
Evidence from labour censuses and from the reports of the Labour Branch of the Native Administration Department suggest that ‘young persons’ constituted a large section of the plantation labour force in Nyasaland from the mid‐1920s. This paper