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Article: Subverting Banda's dictatorship in Malawi: orality as counter-discourse in Jack Mapanje's Of Chameleons and Gods.(Hastings Kamuzu Banda)(Critical essay)
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- ARIEL
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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The government of former president-for-life Dr. H.K. Banda and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in Malawi was a dictatorship that relied on coercion as well as mobilization of grassroots popular support and consent to maintain itself in power for 30 years (1964-1994). The regime's coercive tactics included draconian censorship of stories, poems, plays, songs, and other creative work that contained any critical commentary of the dictatorship (Gibbs 69-83; Zeleza 33-37). The ruling party also made liberal use of detention without trial, the torture of political opponents, extra-judicial killings, and forced exile against those it deemed a threat to its survival (Africa Watch ...
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Article: BANDA RESIGNS AS MEN'S SOCCER COACH.(SPORTS)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);
January 5, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... Tamira Surprenant The Capital Times Kalekeni Banda, who was hired as the University of Wisconsin ... controversy in 1997, resigned Friday after Banda failing to lead the Badgers to the NCAA ... Madison. In a statement released by the UW, Banda said he resigned to spend more time with ...
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