TY - BOOK ID - 29128193 TI - Magomero : portrait of an African village. PY - 1987 SN - 0521321824 0521389097 9780521389099 9780521321822 PB - Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Magomero (Malawi) KW - Histoire. KW - Malawi KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29128193 AB - 'Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history'--from back cover. ER -