Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 12 – Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Nation-Building Challenges in the post-1994 Malawi: Whither a Federal State System, by Gift Wasambo Kayira and Paul Chiudza Banda (pp. 282 – 305) The chapter looks at the inter-related problems of ethnicity, regionalism, and nation-building in Malawi. It goes down in history and looks …
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 11 – 50-50 Campaigns- Lessons from 10 years of promotion of gender equality and women’s representation in Parliament, by Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza (pp. 256 – 281) This chapter comprehensively lays out the problem of poor descriptive representation of women in parliament in Malawi. It provides a historical background of …
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 10 – Executive Supremacy and the Armed Forces, A case Study of Public Finance Management in Malawi, by Mphatso Jones Boti Phiri (pp. 242 – 255) The chapter scrutinizes the context of Public Finance Management in the Malawi Defense Force (MDF). It first dwells on the concept of good …
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 6 -Violence against Women in Elections in Malawi: The Role of Women Leaders as Game Changers, by Anthony Jeckson Malunga, Ngcimezile Mbano-Mweso and Bernadette Wangisa Malunga (pp. 150 – 170) This chapter puts a sobering perspective on the prevalence of violence against women at elections, particularly in the 2019 …