State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi

This book examines the discourse of development in Malawi and how it unfolded through a milliard of experts and institutions that expressed interest in the plight of the poor and yet did little to achieve their goals between the 1930s and 1983.

Gift Wasambo Kayira is senior lecturer of history at the University of Malawi.

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: The Poor and British Development Discourse in Africa, 1909-1970s Chapter Two: The Land-poverty Nexus in Colonial Malawi, 1930s-1965 Chapter Three: Whose Interests? The State, Industry, and Rural Development, 1930s-1953 Chapter Four: Confronting Poverty: The State, ODM and World Bank Triad, 1960s-1970s Chapter Five: Experts, Planners, and the Tampered Rural Development, 1960s-1981 Chapter Six: Malawi's Foreign Policy and the Fruitless Search for Investment Capital, 1960s-1980 Conclusion: Some Reflections on the State and the War on Poverty Bibliography Index About the Author