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What were the origins of British ideas on rural poverty, and how
did they shape development practice in Malawi? How did the
international development narrative influence the poverty discourse
in postcolonial Malawi from the 1960s onwards? In The State and the
Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting
Poverty, 1939-1983, Gift Wasambo Kayira addresses these questions.
Although by no means rehabilitating colonialism, the book argues
that the intentions of officials and agencies charged with
delivering economic development programs were never as ill-informed
or wicked as some theorists have contended. Raising rural
populations from poverty was on the agenda before and after
independence. How to reconcile the pressing demand of stabilizing
the country's economy and alleviating rural poverty within the
context of limited resources proved an impossible task to achieve.
Also difficult was how to reconcile the interests of outside
experts influenced by international geopolitics and theories of
economic development and those of local personnel and politicians,.
As a result, development efforts always fell short of their goals.
Through a meticulous search of the archive on rural and industrial
development projects, Kayira presents a development history that
displays the shortfalls of existing works on development
inadequately grounded in historical study.
In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider
Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are
neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global
geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial
divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead,
the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a
geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into
conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside
of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and
post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi,
and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles
for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements,
social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal,
and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist
to this day.
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