Harri Englund

Visions for Racial Equality

David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009077057
• ISBN-10: 1009077058
• Artikelnr.: 70200384

Autorenporträt

Harri Englund is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has three decades of research experience in Southern and Central Africa. He is the author of From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland (2002), Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (2006) which was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize, Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (2011) and Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Among the wild Scotsmen
3. Champagne and slaves
4. The universal vernacular
5. Frightful libel upon humanity
6. Rhodes must not rise
7. A future foreclosed
8. Grief never wears out
9. Liberal translations
10. The rest is history.