Public Lecture on Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi with Prof Yusuf Juwayeyi at The Culture Lab

You are invited to The Culture Lab’s first public event. We invite you to a public lecture with Professor Yusuf Juwayeyi on archaeology and oral tradition in Malawi.

Prof Juwayeyi will draw on his many years of research into prehistoric economies during the Later Stone Age and Iron Age periods in sub-Saharan Africa. He has carried out archaeological excavations in Malawi at Stone Age and Iron Age sites. He is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York and is visiting Malawi at present.

The event is hosted by The Culture Lab at Four Seasons, Lilongwe, on Friday 30 July 2021 from 5.30-7.30pm. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to +265 996 376 788, +265 995 503 314 or abitiyusufu@gmail.com. Spaces are limited. Covid restrictions and rules will be applied.

Prof Juwayeyi’s most recent work, Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa (Boydell & Brewer, 2020) will be available for sale at the public lecture at MWK 25,000. It is also available at Chambo Market. It is the first comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.

Here’s what reviewers had to say,

The book makes a contribution relevant to both specialist audiences and to Malawian citizens. […] The volume has much to recommend it. The structure of the chapters includes accessible summaries for nonspecialists. The volume is richly illustrated with some fifty-five black-and-white photographs, maps, figures, and tables. – H-Africa

This book is not a site report; that was published a decade ago (Juwayeyi 2010). It is instead an accessible and well-written introduction for general readers with an interest in the history of Central Africa and it therefore includes a chapter on the aims and methods of archaeology, as well as a section tracing the development of both historical and archaeological studies of the Chewa from the colonial period to the present. – AZANIA