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| Title: | Ethnicity, language, and cultural violence: Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Malawi, 1964-1994 |
| Author: | Mkandawire, Bonaventure |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 23-42 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Malawi Central Africa |
| Subjects: | language policy official languages authoritarianism Chewa dialect Tumbuka language History, Archaeology Malawi--History Malawi--Politics and government Ethnicity--Political aspects |
| About person: | Hastings Kamuzu Banda (ca1906-1997) |
| Link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29783607 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the cultural violence Malawi's president Banda's committed against Malawians when he censored languages of other ethnic groups than his own. During the period of his presidency (1964-1994), Hastings Kamuzu Banda's policies favoured his own ethnic group, Chewa, and language, ChiChewa, which he imposed on all Malawians, regardless of their ethnicity and language. Efforts were made to marginalize other ethnic languages, including ChiTumbuka, a 'lingua franca' of northern Malawi. The paper discusses language rights in two periods of Malawi's political history. First, it looks at the colonial period from 1930 to 1947, when there was a conflict between Livingstonia Mission and the Nyasaland government over the government's preference for ChiNyanja (ChiChewa) as the official language for the whole country. Second, following John Galtung's theory of cultural and structural violence, the paper examines Banda's linguistic and cultural violence. Notes, ref. [Journal abstract, edited] |
