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This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

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Publié par	Mzuni Press
Date de parution	09 janvier 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789996076084
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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Beyond Impunity New Directions for Governance in Malawi Beyond Impunity

Ross

Edited by Kenneth R. Ross Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

Beyond Impunity: New Directions for Governance in Malawi

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any from or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission from the publishers.

Cover picture: Jacob Nankhonya

Published by Mzuni Press P/Bag 201 Luwinga Mzuzu 2 Malawi

ISBN 978-99960-76-07-7 eISBN 978-99960-76-08-4

Cover: Josephine Kawejere and Daniel Neumann Editorial assistance: Hope Kaombe

Beyond Impunity:

New Directions for Governance in Malawi

Edited by

Kenneth R. Ross

Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza

Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

University of Cape Town Press

with Mzuni Press 2022

The cover photograph was taken by photojournalistJacob Nankhonya, Assistant Technical Editor at Nation Publications Ltd, and is used by his kind permission. It shows a demonstration in August 2019 that was part of the “One Million March” that called for the resignation of Jane Ansah, Chair of the Malawi Electoral Commission, in the aftermath of the 2019 Presidential election. The demonstrators are on the road close to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe as they had just passed through the suburb of Mchesi.The placard states, “Chisankho cha Tippex takana,” meaning “We refuse to accept the outcome of the Tippex election.”

5 “The events of 2019/2020 were momentous not just for democracy in Malawi but for the wider region. This impressive volume brings together critical insights that reveal why the presidential election was nullified, how key democratic institutions emerged stronger than before, and the challenges that still remain. It is essential reading for anyone working on Malawian politics or democratic consolidation more broadly". Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham

“Well researched and written by mostly Malawian scholars using a wide variety of local and international sources and new data collected through field work, this book offers fresh perspectives of an assortment of topical issues from the environment, federalism, and gender to governance, financial management, and trust. It also brings to our attention young scholars writing on Malawi, who offer different perspectives to those we are used to reading and refreshing new ways of looking at the country’s historical and contemporary issues.”

Diana Cammack, political scientist, South Africa

“Malawi’s ‘critical juncture’ of 2019-20 inspires in this volume a comprehensive look at governance. From public finances to electoral management and violence, from regionalism to natural resource management, and a whole host of other topics along the way, the chapters collected here mark a concentrated effort to rethink Malawi’s governance.”

Harri Englund, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

“An extremely engaging and gripping collection that analyses Malawi’s democratic project in a historical and contemporary perspective with a depth and breadth that very few existing accounts can rival. This volume is a must read for all academics, researchers, policy makers, journalists, activists, diplomats and development practitioners who want to understand how Malawi works or does not work including its prospects for democratic maturity in a highly dynamic local and global context.”

Blessings Chinsinga PhD Director at Centre for Social Research (CSR) and Professor at the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Malawi

6 Acknowledgements

Many hands have played their part in the making of this book. Credit must be given, first and foremost, to the authors whose work it contains. They drafted their chapters at a very challenging time in mid-2020 when Malawi was facing high political tension at the same time as having to cope with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Anyone could be forgiven for getting distracted, but the authors stuck to their task and worked through a rigorous process of editing and peer review to produce the result that is now in your hands. We are also much indebted to the anonymous or “blind” peer reviewers who freely gave of their time and expertise to ensure that the essays reached the highest possible standard.

Our sincere thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town Press and Mzuni Press who collaborated to achieve publication in a way that will make the book available to an international audience while also circulating widely in Malawi itself. The rigour of their editorial processes has enhanced the quality of the book and it has been a pleasure to work with them. To their respective editors, Sandy Shepherd and Klaus Fiedler, we owe a great debt of gratitude.

We have also been delighted to cooperate with the Scotland Malawi Partnership and the Malawi Scotland Partnership, playing a part in their Year of Gover-nance Strengthening. A grant from the SMP has enabled the publication of a substantial print-run in Malawi, which will make the book widely available to institutions and individuals who are interested. The Partnership also hosted an 8-part Webinar series based on the book, running from October 2021 to May 2022, which has enabled lively discussion of the book’s ideas and done much to make it more widely known.

We are thankful to Josephine Kawejere and Daniel Neumann for the cover design, and to Jacob Nankhonya for allowing us to use his evocative photograph.

Kenneth R. Ross Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu

Zomba, November 2021

7 Contents Acknowledgements ________________________________________________________6Notes on Contributors _____________________________________________________10Abbreviations____________________________________________________________15Foreword _______________________________________________________________19Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ______________________________________________________Introduction: A Pivotal Moment for Governance in Malawi? ______________________25Kenneth R. Ross, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza & Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu ____________Chapter 1 _________________________________________________________________

A Decade of Governance as “Roving Banditry” The Political Economy of Public Finance Mismanagement in Malawi, 2010 -2020 ______________________________________47Henry Chingaipe _________________________________________________________Chapter 2 _________________________________________________________________Two Decades of Governance in Malawi: Examining Citizen Trust in Malawi from 1999-2019 ___________________________________________________________________77Joseph J. Chunga & Happy Kayuni __________________________________________Chapter 3 _________________________________________________________________Trust in Election Management Bodies, Participation in Demonstrations and Willingness to Pay Taxes: Evidence from Malawi _________________________________________97

Martin Limbikani Mwale, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Tony Mwenda Kamninga & Laston Petro Manja ______________________________________________________Chapter 4 _________________________________________________________________Impunity versus Constitutional Legality in Malawi’s 2019-20 Presidential Election Case ___________________________________________________________114Garton S. Kamchedzera ___________________________________________________Chapter 5 _________________________________________________________________Legal Responses to Electoral Violence and Democratic Governance in Malawi: The Case of the 2019 and 2020 Elections ________________________________________137Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo ___________________________________________________

8 Chapter 6 _________________________________________________________________Violence against Women in Elections in Malawi: The Role of Women Leaders as Game Changers ______________________________________________________________150Anthony Jeckson Malunga, Ngcimezile Mbano-Mweso & Bernadette Wangisa Malunga _______________________________________________________________Chapter 7 _________________________________________________________________Malawi’s Choice of Electoral System and Reform Agenda Quandary _______________171Ernest Thindwa __________________________________________________________Chapter 8 _________________________________________________________________Awona Nyekhwe: The Fate of Opposition in Multiparty Malawi (1994–2020) ________197John Chipembere Lwanda, George Chikondi Chipembere Lwanda & Raphael Mbwana _______________________________________________________________Chapter 9 _________________________________________________________________Guarding the Guardians: Auditing Security Sector Governance in Malawi ___________220Dan Kuwali _____________________________________________________________Chapter 10 ________________________________________________________________Executive Supremacy and the Armed Forces: A Case Study of Public Finance Management in Malawi __________________________________________________242Mphatso Jones Boti Phiri __________________________________________________Chapter 11 ________________________________________________________________50-50 Campaigns: Lessons from 10 Years of Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Representation in Parliament ______________________________________________256Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza __________________________________________________Chapter 12 ________________________________________________________________Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Nation-Building Challenges in Post-1994 Malawi: Whither a Federal State System? __________________________________________________282Gift Wasambo Kayira & Paul Chiudza Banda __________________________________Chapter 13 ________________________________________________________________Rights Without Responsibility: Governance Crisis in the Management of Natural Resources in Malawi _____________________________________________________306Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu _________________________________________________

9 Chapter 14 ________________________________________________________________Pandemics, Politics and Governance: Contestations over State Management of Covid-19 in Malawi ___________________________________________________________324Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma, Gift Wasambo Kayira & Paul Chiudza Banda ____________Chapter 15 ________________________________________________________________Malawi’s Governance Crisis in Theological Perspective: A Tale of Two Cultures ______347Mzee Hermann Yokoniah Mvula & Kenneth R. Ross ____________________________Bibliography____________________________________________________________369

Index__________________________________________________________________393