Led by their director Dr Paul Lihoma, the National Archives of Malawi has just finished hosting the 24th Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) General Conference at the Bingu Wa Mutharika International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe which run from the 7th – 11th August 2017. In our quest to fully understand […]
For the Digitally correct: Preserving Malawi’s historical manuscripts project, we are looking for funds to digitise historical manuscripts and build a modern digital repository to house them. The historical manuscripts at the National Archives of Malawi (NAM) are among the most intensively consulted, serving the research needs of a broad and diverse scholarly and non-scholarly […]
An African Uprising: The story of Chilembwe and the 1915 rebellion against imperial Britain “No one should be kind to the natives. They do not understand it, they do not wish it, and it is not good for them…” Central African Times (now The Daily Times), no. 39, 30 June 1909 An American-trained Malawian Baptist […]
One of our big projects is helping digitise the National Archive of Malawi. We are in the process of laying a solid foundation by critically looking at existing institutional and national policies. Terms of agreements are being drafted and a baseline study considering data links, costs, traffic analysis and storage needs is being designed. In […]
“Combining aspects of history, cultural studies, personal memoir and opinion, this rarely published and hard hitting perspective from a former senior member of the donor community analyses the past, current and future prospects of Malawi politics and economics. The book proves yet again the adage that ‘sometimes the mlendo (visitor) has the sharper [analytical] knife’ […]