The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Common Text 2019-2020)

"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian sayingThe women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Weaving a Malawi Sunrise tells the story of Memory Chazeza's quest to get an education and to build a school for young women. Roberta Laurie was one of many who helped Memory realize her vision of seeing young girls become strong and independent women who could care for themselves and their future families. During her time in Malawi, Laurie met several other women, each of whom had a story of her own. Laurie combines these personal accounts with detailed information about the country's underlying social and political context. Readers interested in Africa, global affairs, women's studies, development, and international education will give high marks to Weaving a Malawi Sunrise.

Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi's capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the dimensions of household food insecurity in these neighbourhoods is critical to sustainable and inclusive growth in Lilongwe. The survey findings provide a complementary perspective to the 2008 AFSUN survey conducted in Blantyre, which suggested a level of food security in urban Malawi that was probably more typical of peri-urban areas where many people farm. Given that informal settlements house most of Malawi's urban residents, the Lilongwe research presents a serious public policy challenge for the country's leaders. Poverty is a profound problem in Malawi's rapidly expanding cities. Of particular concern is the poor quality of diets among residents of informal settlements. Precarity of income, reflected in the survey findings of frequent purchasing of staple foods and the need for food sellers to extend credit, appears to be a key driver of food insecurity in these communities. Economically inclusive growth, with better prospects for stable employment and protection for informal-sector workers, appears to be the surest route to improved urban food security in Malawi.

The first complete, comprehensive & visitor-friendly guide to one of Africa's most beautiful, friendly & relatively undiscovered African nation.

This updated and expanded edition contains 1000 entries, covering topics such as war, disease, the rise and fall of state systems, religious and socio-political movements, natural sciences, the environment, transport and the economy. It charts the developments from pre-history to post-Banda Malawi, from Tom Bokwito to James Sangala, and from the UMCA Mission at Magomero to the general elections of 1999, paying particular attention to individuals, groups and forces that have moulded this Southern African country. The dictionary aims to answer the need for a comprehensive reference book on Malawi. It is detailed in its coverage of subjects, and should be an essential companion to students, teachers, scholars and general readers interested in learning about, and understanding, the past and present of the Lake Malawi region.