This book explores Malawi's recent history in light of longer-term historical developments, contributing important new insights to debates about migration, citizenship, chieftaincy, language, cultural practice, anti-colonialism and nationalism.
Zoë Groves is Lecturer in Modern Global, Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Leicester, UK, and Research Associate at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on migration, urban history and popular culture in Southern Africa. She is author of Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965: Tracing Machona (2020).
Jessica Johnson is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of In Search of Gender Justice: Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi (2018) and co-editor of Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing imaginaries and Contested Practices (2018).
