Logos Open Culture’s forthcoming book, ‘Madonna is our mother’: Notes from Malawi
Logos Open Culture is pleased to announce its next book publication, ‘Madonna is our mother’: Notes from Malawi by author and academic Muti Michael Phoya.
About the book
In the collection of 15 essays, Muti Michael Phoya reflects on the shifting character of postcolonial Malawi. Focusing mainly on the land and memory, the book paints a nuanced picture of a modern African country through its fascinating history.
Here is a sneak peak at the striking cover, designed by Tayo Kopfer.
”Madonna is our mother’: Notes from Malawi’, Logos Open Culture’s forthcoming publication by Muti Michael Phoya
Author Muti Phoya says about the cover,
The clock tower in Blantyre has long been associated with protest. In the old days, it’s where marches against colonialism would be staged. Then the bird is the Livingstone’s Turaco. It is named after Charles, the brother to Dr David Livingstone, whose legacy still casts a long shadow on Malawi. And the tall building is Chayamba, built by none other the deposed dictator Kamuzu Banda. It was built on land appropriated from the Conforzi family. And in the foreground, the ‘village’ represents the resistance of subsistence life on the landscape.
About the author
Muti, the author, has engaged with Malawi’s story since 2000. He has authored several books of fiction and non-fiction, including the best-selling ‘Malawi, Lake of Stars’. He has also contributed to the Society of Malawi Journal, and the influential pan-African blog, Africa is a Country. He won the Peer Gynt literary award in 2005 and was the Goethe-Institut Moving Africa scholar in 2011.
About Logos Open Culture
Logos Open Culture is a Malawian start-up and independent book publisher. With a dedicated small team and network of associates, Logos Open Culture creates high quality content and carries out work to make sure discussions on Malawi have appropriate depth.
Publications include Making Music in Malawi (John Lwanda, 2021), ground-breaking Lomathinda: Rose Chibambo Speaks (Timwa Lipenga, 2019), and best-selling Malawi – A Place Apart (Asbjorn Eidhammer, 2017).
Logos Open Culture also works to enhance access to Malawi’s history/heritage and to facilitate digitalisation of memory institutions to preserve and provide future access to knowledge and records. The bookshop Chambo Market at Old Town Mall in Lilongwe is the main outlet for Logos Open Culture’s publications.
