“…The desire for same-sex intimate relationships in Africa was found to be in existence. However, Malawian society views homosexuality as an act rather than a sexual orientation (McNamara 2014).…”
Section: Same-sex Intimacy Between Females In Africamentioning
Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.
“…The desire for same-sex intimate relationships in Africa was found to be in existence. However, Malawian society views homosexuality as an act rather than a sexual orientation (McNamara 2014).…”
Section: Same-sex Intimacy Between Females In Africamentioning
Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.
“…Western donors have suspended assistance to Malawi twice over the last 5 years. In 2011 Britian, the EU and the World Bank revoked aid in part because of the Government of Malawi's (GoM) arrest of a transgendered woman (McNamara, ). In 2014, most donors suspended aid after ‘Cashgate’, a scandal where Malawi's political class looted more than US$30m in national funds.…”
Section: Criticism and Ethnography Of China In Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I learnt chiTumbuka, lived with families, attended church and triangulated my observations with focus groups, which made it harder for gatekeepers to provide me with an uncritical aid narrative. I have written previously on how Vsawans criticised aid within their development narratives (McNamara, , ). I also read Malawian newspapers daily and have attempted to link my observations of these to existing literature.…”
Section: An Ethnography Of Development In Vsawamentioning
“…). They contrast this with an immorality they associate with the city, where they believe that, unsupervised by parents and family members, youths engage in activities like promiscuity and homosexuality (McNamara ). …”
Section: English Chichewa and Chitumbuka In Malawian Political Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tumbuka understand their morality as embedded in the village (Mkandawire, Luginaah et al 2011). They contrast this with an immorality they associate with the city, where they believe that, unsupervised by parents and family members, youths engage in activities like promiscuity and homosexuality (McNamara 2014 In pre colonial times the Tumbuka were subjugated by a Zulu tribe known as the Ngoni. The Ngoni sent their serf Tumbuka's children, rather than their own, to Scottish-run missionary schools (Vail 1981).…”
Section: English Chichewa and Chitumbuka In Malawian Political Historymentioning
The use of English in a northern Malawian village often represents a challenge to local norms and morality. This article examines the cultural meaning of the Northern Malawian chiTumbuka language; initially examining how suppression of this language has served as an institutional technique for marginalising Northern Malawians. It then explores how Chewas (the dominant linguistic group) understand English as a language of opportunity, demanding English-based education for their children and code-switching into English as a sign of prestige. The article provides ethnographic evidence of the relationship between language selection and morality among the Tumbuka, the largest northern Malawian cultural group. It demonstrates that the reduced economic opportunities that English mastery provides a Tumbuka means that they cannot use speaking English to claim prestige. Instead Tumbuka associate their peers' English use with a collection of transgressions against a morality that is linked to rigid social hierarchies and a static culture. When speaking English, a Tumbuka was often seen, at the very least, to be clumsily social climbing. They were also frequently understood to be overtly challenging their elders' ability to guide development and to be questioning the need for the continuation of a Tumbuka language and culture. By exploring how language selection is interpreted as communicating these moral contraventions, this chapter builds upon the volume's analysis of how language constructs morality. It demonstrates that language selection interacts with factors like history and economic opportunity to communicate various moral positions.
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