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- Date Issued:
- 1946-07-24T00:00:00Z
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Herbarium Catalog Collection
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- Development institutions have in recent years realised the importance of indigenous culture as an important vehicle for communication. This has led to the creation of programmes in which local cultural forms have been "recruited" as the communication process for "selling" development strategies. The paper draws upon the author's experiences of theatre for primary health mobilisation and awareness in rural Malawi. The advantage of performing arts as a medium for development communication are that: 1) they provide a more entertaining form than monologous media, 2) they can easily use local languages and cultural forms such as songs and dances, 3) they encourage participation and debate in the audiences. The main disadvantage is that such intrumental use of the performing arts can lead to a cornmodification of culture which is manifested in: 1) the professionalisation of cultural workers in a context which is not normally commercial, 2) the reification and triviliation of community culture through the use of traditional external forms to convey messages totally at variance with their original context. Such cultural engineering, at its most insensitive can constitute a form of developmental imperialism which erodes rather than supports the cultural cement binding local communities. Suggested solutions demand agents' wide-ranging consultations, not only with development minded stake-holders, but also with those who possess cultural skills and interests.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- This paper briefly examines the unprecedented political events in Malawi that began in March 1992 and culminated in multi-party elections in which Dr. Banda's regime yielded the reigns of power to a democratically elected government. Using detailed results of the 1994 presidential and parliamentary elections, the paper argues that regionalism rather than ethnicity appears to be the dominant factor influencing voting patterns at the national level. Regionalism appears to have resulted in the formation of three super ethnic groups each with its own regional base. Elites are securing political power by redefining the ethnic equation; and their competition for scarce resources and political power continues to occur in the guise of spatial units, among which the super ethnic region is the more salient, and has consequently become the most influential factor in elections.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
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- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Herpetology Radiographs
