The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

Megan Vaughan

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511549885

The Story of an African Famine

Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule.

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Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of maps
pp vi-vi

List of illustrations
pp vi-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

Glossary
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - The 1949 famine
pp 21-49

2 - Famine as a Malthusian crisis
pp 50-76

3 - Famine as a failure of the market
pp 77-101

4 - Food entitlement and employment
pp 102-118

5 - Gender and famine
pp 119-147

6 - After the famine: a conclusion
pp 148-159

Notes
pp 160-166

List of oral interviews
pp 167-169

Bibliography
pp 170-178

Index
pp 179-181

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