"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of a series of dynamic medical encounters, exchanges and connections between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the frameworks of mobilities and networks that…
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked m…
ABSTRACT: The primary intent of this research is to analyze and document the progression of European influence and domination in modern-day Malawi, and to explore the incident at Lake Nyasa. East Africa during the nineteenth century was a period of rapid growth, rising violence,…
This thesis investigates whether adoption of partnerships between water utilities and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa can improve water services to informal urban settlements. The study is particularly relevant because over 1 billion of the world's pop…
"Groves provides a carefully researched and compelling history of Malawian contributions to Zimbabwes history. Her work illuminates how migrants successfully built a unique migrant culture in Harare. Groves presents a significant and compelling narrative of the key roles of many…
This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa. Migrants who travelled to Zimbabwe stayed for years or decades, and those who never returned became know…
This study investigated the use of storytelling in order to support children's emergent literacy in Malawi's resource deprived Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCCs). It focused on the professional development of four caregivers from four CBCCs following a Formative and Desig…
This thesis examines the primary principles of Japan's development assistance - jijo, meaning self-help. Japan's development assistance is most commonly presented as economic cooperation, and much less is understood about its social and human development programmes at the commun…
Introduction: Medication use by women of childbearing age is common. During pregnancy, medications should be used cautiously because some are teratogenic and/or feto-toxic, especially during the first trimester. Few studies have assessed exposure to contraindicated medications i…
Sub-Saharan Africa is more affected by the HIV epidemic than any other region of the world. At the same time, malnutrition remains a major public health concern. HIV and malnutrition are interlinked, both epidemiologically and physiologically, contributing to high mortality and …
After discussing the Malawian context and summarising the remittance research, I focus on remittances in rural Malawi. I follow remittances from the giver’s motivations through to the receiver’s view of remittances and how the receiver uses them and finally to their impact as a …
Juvenile crime has become a pressing issue in many societies in today’s world. The juvenile crime rate varies from one country to another, with some having relatively low rates and others experiencing higher rates. As such, each country has a unique system in response to juvenil…
The East African soldiers (askaris) who served in Britain's colonial army (the King's African Rifles) occupied an uncertain place in colonial society. Britain needed African servicemen to maintain its authority, and endeavored to ensure their reliability through a variety of coe…
Legumes associate with soil-dwelling nitrogen fixing rhizobia bacteria, and through this relationship can maintain and increase soil fertility while improving human nutrition, an important function in low-resourced nations such as Malawi. Increasing legume production requires th…