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Introduces the geography, history, government, lifestyles, and industries of Malawi. ... Read more

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GOOD CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT MALAWI, AFRICA, WITH ACCURATE, THOUGH DATED, DESCRIPTIVE TEXT, COLORFUL AND BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS,2 COLORFUL MAPS WITH A ONE PAGE MAP INDEX, AS WELL AS A SEVEN-PAGE "MINI-FACTS AT A GLANCE" SECTION, WITH GENERAL INFORMATION, GEOGRAPHY, NATURE, EVERYDAY LIFE, ECONOMY AND INDUSTRY, IMPORTANT PEOPLE, AND IMPOTANT DATES HEADINGS,. HAS 4 PAGE INDEX. CHICAGO: CHILDRENS PRESS,1990. WRITTEN BY A FORMER MISSIONARY KID IN MALAWI WORKING ON HER PH.D. IN ZIMBABWE.

ADULTS WILL ALSO FIND THIS HISTORY OB MALAWI A VALUABLE BOOK HELPFUL AS FAR AS A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND CULTURE OF MALAWI (NYASALAND UNDER THE BRITISH COLONIALISTS) UP UNTIL 20 YEARS AGO. IT ONLY COVERS UP UNTIL THE LATE PRESIDENT HASTINGS BANDA ERA, AND HAS NOTHING ABOUT THE EVENTS UNDER LAST TWO PRESIDENTS OF MALAWI. ... Read more

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Landslides are part and parcel of the physicalenvironment of undulating landscape of northern andcentral Malawi. The population comprises poor,largely rural communities who survive on subsistenceagriculture. This book focuses on both scientificcauses of landslides, and the local population?sawareness of landslides, their perceptions andtraditional beliefs regarding landslide causes, andtheir coping strategies. The role of gender withregard to perceptions and coping strategies receivespecial attention. The author argues thattraditional; beliefs play an important role ininvoking explanations to why landslides occur, andthat women are as aware of the phenomena as men.Coping strategies and proposed actions to combat theeffects of landslides are impacted upon bytraditional beliefs. Attempts to mitigate the impactsof landslides and minimize their potential for futurelandslides, particularly with regard to interventionsby government and NGOs, must enjoy the support of thelocal population within the context of theirperceptions of such events, or they will be unlikelyto succeed ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Moatize is a town and district located in Tete Province in Mozambique. It is located near the town of Tete and near the Zambezi River. In 2006, VALE, a Brazilian company gained a concession to build and operate a coal mine at Moatize to export coal via rail to Beira, a Mozambican port. Riversdale Mining , an Australian company also has coal leases in the area. To transport coal from Moatize for export through Beira, 670 km of railway has to be upgraded at a cost of $375m. The first train in more than two decades reached Moatize on January 30, 2010. Tete is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 100,724 km² and a population of approximately 1.551.949 (2006). Tete is the capital of the province. The Cahora Bassa Dam is situated in this province. ... Read more

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Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce and its largest city, by population, with an estimated 732,518 inhabitants as of 2008. It sometimes referred to as the commercial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is the capital of the country's Southern Region as well as the Blantyre District. The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), the country's state broadcaster and the provider of Malawi's only television channel, has its headquarters in Blantyre. The Supreme Court is also located here. The city also houses the College of Medicine, the Malawi Polytechnic and the Kamuzu college of nursing, constituent colleges of the University of Malawi, located along the Chipembere highway. The rather unconventional location of the city has meant that Blantyre is overlooked by Mount Soche, Ndirande mountain, Chiradzulu mountain and Michiru mountain which consolidates the Michiru Mountain Conservation Area. Blantyre supports a small expatriate population of about 25,000, mainly from England, the rest of Europe, and South Africa. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Geoforum, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Research pertaining to children's geographies has mainly focused on children's physical experiences of space, with their 'imagined geographies' receiving far less attention. The few studies of children's imagined geographies that exist tend to focus on children's national identities and their understanding of distant places. However, children's lives are not necessarily static and they often move between places. Research has not so far considered children's images of these transitional spaces or how such images are constructed. Through an examination of over 800 thematic drawings and stories, regarding 'moving house', produced by children aged 10-17 years in urban and rural communities of Lesotho and Malawi, this paper explores southern African children's representations of migration. The research considers how ideas of migration are culturally-constructed based on notions of family, home and kinship, particularly in relation to the fluid family structure characteristic of most southern African societies. The results suggest that most children imagine migration as a household rather than an individual process, rarely including micro-migrations between extended family households in their drawings. Further, children's images of migration are place-rooted in everyday life experiences. Their representations concentrate on the reasons for migration, both negative and positive, which are specifically related to their local social and environmental situations and whether house moves take place locally or over longer distances. The paper concludes by exploring the implications of these conceptualisations of moving house for children's contemporary migration experiences, particularly in light of changing family structures due to the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tumbuka are a Bantu ethnic group living in Northern Malawi, Eastern Zambia and Southern Tanzania. Their chief god is called Chiuta, who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created, just like the God of the Abrahamic religions. The language of the Tumbuka is called chiTumbuka - the 'chi' in front of Tumbuka meaning 'the language of the' just like 'ki' in kiSwahili or 'se' in seTswana. A Tumbuka will call another vatumbuka, meaning one of the tribe of Tumbukas.The World Almanac (1998) estimates approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers exist in the aforementioned three countries. Ethnologue estimates a total of 1,332,000 Tumbuka speakers, including 940,000 in Malawi and 392,000 in Zambia, with no Tumbuka presence listed for Tanzania. ... Read more

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The text includes the following special features: * substantial revision to the text and illustrations * information arranged both topically and regionally * many new photographs * updated statistics and new tables * a thorough explanation of recent developments in Zimbabwe, and the geographical relevance of these changes. ... Read more