Bestselling ‘Malawi – A Place Apart’ coming soon in second edition

Logos Open Culture is excited to announce its upcoming publication of a second edition of best-selling book Malawi – A Place Apart by Asbjørn Eidhammer, first published in 2017.

The second edition, published 6 years later, provides a welcome update. Eidhammer takes into account recent developments in Malawi. This includes almost thirty years of democracy and the historic constitutional court ruling to annul the 2019 elections, accompanied by mass demonstrations.

Eidhammer is a Norwegian political scientist, activist, and diplomat. He served as the Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi from 1999 to 2004 and from 2011 to 2014. Between his missions to Malawi, he was Director of Evaluation at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation for five years. From 1981 to 1984, he was President of the Norwegian Council for Southern Africa, Norway’s anti-apartheid movement. He has published books in Norwegian about politics and development in Africa and Malawi.

The first edition of Malawi – A Place Apart went through two print runs. It’s been popular with readers looking for an accessible book to Malawi’s rich history, culture, and socio-political affairs.

Reviews of the first edition

Here’s what other’s had to say about the first edition.

“Malawi, a Place Apart is a great read. (Eidhammer) has an understanding of Malawi’s constraints and possibilities that is way ahead of most commentators on Malawi.” – Author and Prof. Felix Mnthali (Ret.)

“…the book has succeeded in portraying reality of constant change in Malawi both past and present through a line of time which sets Malawi on earth as a place apart.” – Aya Mkwanda, Staff Reporter, The Nation

“Eidhammer’s book deserves to be placed in every school library in the country. It should be read by journalists, civil servants and non-governmental organizations.” – the late, celebrated historian DD Phiri, author of History of Malawi I and II

“The book is well researched and extremely readable. Furthermore, it enables readers to get behind Malawi’s economic statistics, political power struggles and social trends in order to obtain a feeling for how lives of individuals are affected by them. For people in the country and beyond it, who have a need or desire to understand present day Malawi, this book is an outstanding valuable resource.” – David Bone, editor, The Society of Malawi Journal

Further information to follow.